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Go fund me... door way to dodgy... As an example...https://www.gofundme.com/Yhoana-Arteaga I have a problem with GO fund me pages that are set up to support the family of murder victims before a person has been found guilty. Statistically family are the front line offenders and while its hideous its true in soo many cases. I just cant imagine sending money to people i dont know to support them Especially with such Vague and broad purposes, this really means they can spend on making themselves feel better. This particular case is easier to see the mother and children return home so have strong aliby but other family are not rulled out yet. I cant imagine the horrow of loosing a child in this way but I also cant imagine wanting to send money. This act of kindness of sending money to someone who experienced such loss . While the receiver will feel some small comfort. The audience will possibly reflect on the size of donations. Regardless of where it ends its possible it will be percieved as alot of money. As a poor person will consider any money a large sum.As perception of wealth is relative. $1000 in the eyes of a person with long term extream poverty is ALOT of money. The money raised for this case is well over the goal of 12000 which is a very large amount of money to someone with long term poverty. Its life changing. Its possible to be a motive to kill. This is not a big stretch. Weirder motives have been found. I just cant think of a reason to donate to a victims family before the guilty have been identified. Especially when it is very possible the killer may benefit from these funds.

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Over all grade ` 2014                    Teaching Period 3                MDA20009Digital Communities1                    77                DDistinction12.50

This blog 28 out of thirty.

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Since opening the Blog I have had Google Analytic running and the following is some interesting facts about this blog.

For everyone that Google recorded data from it shows everyone who accessed my page did so with a non mobile device.

Firefox users were 82% of the browsers with Chrome in a distant second. 

Russian visitors account for 61% of traffic and Australian was 36% with Sweden England and USA just under1%each.

During the last week 89.3% of visitors were returning while only 10.7% were new. With most people spending an average of 3 mins on my site.

With 119 followers. With many 10 different companies being service providers.

Thanks Tumblr its been fun.

REFERENCES

https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?hl=en#report/visitors-overview/a56483731w89928243p93483452/%3F_u.date00%3D20141201%26_u.date01%3D20150207/

Images are screen shot graphics from Google analytics.

1. Locations of visitors

2. Returning vs newbs

3. Service providers

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Image by chelsea Trimble in photofunia.com

Blog posts for ease

Blog post 1 Intro

Blog Post 2

Blog post 3 Digital citizenship 2: Activism and protest

Blog post 4 Trolls

Blog post 5 Crowd Sourcing

Blog Post 6 Selfi

Blog post 7 Social Gaming

Blog post 8 China

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"The future is open-source everything"

NOT Linus Torvalds - ANON

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Grass Mud Horse - Chinese seeking freedom of speech thru meme and modern iconography.

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Grass Mud Horse

Oh excuse my chinese meme language - This translates in an internetty way to F*$K your mother! histerical !

References

DLD13 -  How Social Media is changing China and Asia (2013) <http://bit.ly/1BHSpbp>

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Heres a link to the Ted talk by Mr Michael Anti, He explains everything about the chinese idea on the firewall that is simple and humourous to watch.

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Love this post!

I’m assuming most of us had already heard about Internet censorship in China before the lecture this week, and I’m sure that when you first heard about it years ago, you were slightly shocked. Living in Australia, it is difficult to grasp the idea of having restricted access to the Internet....

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Breaks my heart! Hopeing for freedoms!

#umbrellarevolution

The umbrella revolution

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Blog post #8

China

China is a vast nation with many different levels of law persecution and freedoms. One district that shows the most similarities with the west is recently reunified Hong Kong. The citizens once used to western style freedoms of speech and economy are feeling the oppression of china and using social media and digital community based tools to muster and organize. The movement Occupy was directly associated with the movement and protest for the 2014 umbrella revolution. The vast network of communications was attempted to be halted with Instagram and other media platforms being suspended during the protests (Beech 2014). 

The internet is a closely monitored tool of communication in china and there oppressive and effective government utilize it to spin information and statistics regarding the welfare and state of the country. The Chinese government alter the school curriculum to reflect the propaganda

In china the government impose strict controls on users of social media enforcing rules like real name and Id for Weibo (Facebook equivalent) since 2012 and just recently has widespread ID been enforced(Fern Tay 2015). 

While educated and willing users can attempt to circumnavigate the great firewall the providers of VPN access have troubles and are constantly attacked and network slowed by government. With a 557 million people accessing mobile devices the prospect of control is a constant issue for China(Fern Tay 2015).

While it is important to have social order in China, the country wants and needs more freedoms. China government is struggling to get its citizens to remain censored and controlled, it will be an interesting future as the usual people of oppression like Tibet's villagers  or poor rural mothers don't have the voices that social communities and digital media has given Hong Kong citizens (Amnesty International USA 2015).

References

Amnesty International USA, 2015, 'Annual Report: China 2013', viewed 7 February, 2015, <http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/annual-report-china-2013?page=show>.

Beech, H 2014, 'Hong Kong Stands Up', TIME.com, viewed 7 February, 2015, <http://time.com/3453736/hong-kong-stands-up/>.

Fern Tay, H 2015, 'China increases internet censorship, disrupts VPN providers', ABC News, viewed 7 February, 2015, <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-06/china-tightens-its-grip-on-the-internet/6067990>.

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Photograph by Xaume Olleros–AFP/Getty Images as displayed on TIME front cover October 2014

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Blog Post #7

Social gaming - playing the crowd

  Identity is an important part of who we as people are and encultureation into niche communities builds unique and strong identities that differ from the mainstream groupings but can provide social support and guide belife systems thru folkways (Henslin, Possamai & Possamai-Inesedy 2010). When people spend long durations immersed in the fantasy creations of online social games they partake in a modern culture and begin the process to learn new language and acceptable behavior patterns (Corneliussen & Rettberg 2008). The online communities are vast and the population is large with  World of Warcraft alone having a 7.4 million subscriber base currently and peaking at 12million in  2010(Statistica 2015). This global phenomenon allows citizens to be of any race, gender, class or sexuality and judgements of skill and dedication reign over standard social stereotypes and bias. An interesting aspect of social gaming is the psychological benefits and positive outcomes for subscribers with physical disabilities, where the leisure benefits are substantial at building confidence and life satisfaction while playing in what is termed, second life (Kleban & Kaye 2015). The negatives of social gaming are also quiet apparent as countless hours separated from reality can lead to disassociation with family and work however these occurrences don't appear to be as frequent. The more common building and separating of guilds and friendships is much more common and has a impact on the individual(Ducheneaut et al. 2007). So while social gaming isn't for all of us it certainly holds a unique place in our human expedience and is a valid leisure time pursuit for the millions who do. References Corneliussen, H & Rettberg, J 2008, Digital culture, play, and identity, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. p 1-6 Ducheneaut, N, Yee, N, Nickell, E & Moore, R 2007, 'The life and death of online gaming communities', Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '07. Kleban, C & Kaye, L 2015, 'Psychosocial impacts of engaging in Second Life for individuals with physical disabilities', Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 45, pp. 59-68. Statista, 2015, 'World of Warcraft subscriber number 2014 | Statistic', viewed 7 February, 2015, <http://www.statista.com/statistics/276601/number-of-world-of-warcraft-subscribers-by-quarter/>. Henslin, J, Possamai, A & Possamai-Inesedy, A 2010, Sociology, Pearson Australia, Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. ImageTrimble C.  2015 'Shutterstock cluster of rainbow culture with Photofunia.com'

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Blog Post 6 Visual Communities and Social Imaging

The rise of the selfi

Ernest Hemingway used the term snapshot for quick photographs of informal nature like a snap shot on his hunting parties, likening the process of capturing a moment on film the same way as a hunter does in his sights. I think he would have been interested in the onslaught of selfie images that are snapped away and shared like trophies of self conquest. 

The rise of successful selfie based business like instagram and snap-chat can attest to the fascination we have with images and sharing our moments. While tagging images with hashtags or friends can generate a larger audience it can also cause a stir. The act of loading a selfi is considered a casual act, it is still rather an important social phenomina (Dewey 2015)

References

Dewey, C 2015, 'The surprising sociology of selfies', Washington Post, viewed 31 January, 2015, <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/02/20/the-surprising-sociology-of-selfies/>.

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Blog Post 5 Crowd Sourcing in Times of Crises

Ushandi vs Ebola

When the world is at your fingertips its important to remember the internet is at the worlds. Crowd sourcing is a way to access willing and able people who want to get information together to pool resources and data. (Howe 2015)

Crowd sourcing is the driving force of Wikipedia, Istock and many other booming centers for information and images. Ushandi is an open souce crowdsourced program that can be adapted to fit many data mining applications including in crisis situations. The Ushandi progam was first developed in Kenya but has grown to the demand and was successfully used in the crisis of Haiti in 2010 (Heinzelman & Waters 2015) With this sucess it has grown and has become one of the strongest crisis platforms and being free and powerfull it was most recently used in the fight against ebola. The Liberians Early warning Response network 'Lern" used Ushandi to map medical supplies and victims of Ebola getting the information form a variety of sources and data mining twitter and other social networks to add to the dept of information(Morgan 2014). All information can be seen in maps and graphs and allows response in real time.

The scale of Ushanda and its possible impact is amazing.

References

Howe, J 2015, 'Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing', Archive.wired.com, viewed 31 January, 2015, <http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html>.

Morgan, J 2014, 'Tracking Ebola with CrisisNET and the Ushahidi Platform - Ushahidi', Ushahidi, viewed 31 January, 2015, <http://www.ushahidi.com/2014/11/04/tracking-ebola-crisisnet-ushahidi-platform/>.

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Digital Citizenship 3: Trolling and social media

A Troll can be defined as a antagonistic presence in a online social environment, like forums or groups, to elicit a series of emotionally charged responses known as a flame war (Hardeker 2010). Online environments can stir as much emotional connection as real face to face interactions and so flame wars or troll targeting can lead to some very negative outcomes including depression, career instability and the general emotional responses of being bullied. While many "trolls" are randomly aggravating groups or strangers for an instant gratification there are more dedicated Trolls who spend a lot of time and energy and focus on a singular person or target themes to inflict a greater response and event usually have some very destructive personality atributes(Buckels 2014).

A good example of a professional troll would be Shanley Kane(Yiannopoulos 2014). Her current extreme feminist online presence has earnt her the label of a prolific troll. Her ex partner Andrew Auernheimer gave an explosive interview about how he intentionally taught her troll skills only to see her misuse them, to attack people of great substance “There is an unwritten rule in the trolling community … you are supposed to go after charlatans and parasites. Shanley has no such limitations on her behavior. At some point it became clear that I had not made a troll attempting to make comedy out of people’s reactions, but a simple bully making misery in the lives of targets she found weak,”(Auernheimer in Yiannopoulos 2015)

This example shows the polar intentions of trolls, some wish to antagonize for fun others destructive to no end(Buckels 2014). It is the destructive antisocial troll that has lasting negative out comes and the Australian government is continuously assessing the need for a form of reporting, control and protection from these international and local bullies. The  cybersmart site gives families a way to learn about internet safety for children and the building the digital citizenship goals and comunity ethics(Cybersmart.gov.au 2015). This is a positive step towards community awareness but it still remains difficult to get a strict definition for when something becomes illegal harassment by trolling. 

So as troll-face crosses our paths we should use our digital citizenship skills to block or report them where we see fit and to ignore them when possible, seeking help from the government where appropriate. AS the internet is ever changing so should our response to all antisocial behavior.

References

Buckels, E., et al.2014 Trolls just want to have fun.Personality and Individual Differences, veiwed 09/January2015 <http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/trolls-just-want-to-have-fun.pdf>

Cybersmart.gov.au, 2015, 'Program principles: Cybersmart', viewed 31 January, 2015, <http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/About%20Cybersmart/What%20is%20Cybersmart/Program%20principles.aspx>.

Hardarker, C. 2010 Trolling in asynchronous computer-mediated communication: From user discussions to academic definitions. Veiwed 09 January 2015<http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/4980/2/Hardaker,%20C.%202010.%20Trolling%20in%20ACMC.pdf>

Yiannopoulos, M 2014, 'The Madness Of Queen Shanley - Breitbart', Breitbart, viewed 31 January, 2015, <http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/10/the-madness-of-queen-shanley/>.

Yiannopoulos, M 2015, ''I taught Shanley Kane how to troll, and I'm sincerely sorry' - Breitbart', Breitbart, viewed 31 January, 2015, <http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/17/i-taught-shanley-kane-how-to-troll-and-im-sincerely-sorry/>.

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----------------Chelsea Blog post for week 6

Digital citizenship 2: Activism and protest

danah boyd mentions that cats and activism can often take up the same spaces for us on the internet, people casually sharing funny lol cat memes along side the serious anonymous posts and declarations(boyd 2014) This image of a cat comforting a wounded war participant is demonstrating the meld that has occurred between the internet and its addiction to cute cats and the digital citizens actions of taking up a cause. The Photographer has been moved by other imagery on the net and has since started photo journalism blog of the war in Syria. Sharing the pictures with the world showing the human element of the newsreels, fast. This speed was seen in Vietnam where papers and government allowed photo journalists a new level of access and the emotional responses to such imagery was a key driver in the activism for peace, over time this has moved to the modern online communities wanting to see both countries perspectives of the conflict(Schwenkel, 2014).

Each modern digital citizen partakes by either watching the wars and revolutions and actions evolve or by actively partaking in them and sharing the experience online. With each update, re-tweet or blog post, global people are engaged in sometimes very small community focused actions like Ferguson USA, or the large land mass issues of Syria even as broad as Israel reaching out to the arab nations(Eddelbuttel et al. 2014). The ripples of these actions across the globe are yet to be fully understood. While technologies often are the precursor to military change (Schwenkel, 2014) and are often termed revolutionary they can be good or bad. Social media is a valid example of the revolutionary technology currently affecting military and social actions.

boyd, d 2014, '42-43', viewed 9 December, 2014, <http://www.danah.org/books/ItsComplicated.pdf>.

Eddelbuttel, K, Nielsen, K, Nimeh, M, Reyes-Smith, M & Wakem, H 2014, 'Activisim', Presentation on Prezi.viewed 9 December, 2014,< https://prezi.com/eb5zluaiakry/activism/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy>

Hundley, R. Past Revolutions, Future Transformations: What Can the History of Revolutions in Military Affairs Tell Us About Transforming the U.S. Military?. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1999. viewed 9 December, 2014<http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/2007/MR1029.pdf>

Schwenkel, C 2014, Exhibiting War, Reconciling Pasts: Photographic Representation and Transnational Commemoration in Contemporary Vietnam, 1st ed, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, viewed 9 December, 2014, <https://anthropology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/schwenkel/books/Schwenkel_JVS.pdf>.

‘This cat is named Bublik’, my interpreter tells me and she goes on ‘A bublik is a small cookie, a round cookie with a hole in the middle.’,’like a donut?’ I ask. ‘No, no, it is really a sweet hard sugar cookie with a hole in the middle’ she smiles.

The next three days I found out that this Bublik kitten is the one that keeps up the peace and makes the war a little bit more bearable for anyone. Even the biggest soldier, just coming back from the frontline, softens up as little cute Bublik sits in front of their feet and making high pitched meowing sounds up. 

I realized that, for them, this tiny Bublik kitty is somewhat like a rock of sanity in a big sea of shit. And for a few days Bublik also became mine. - The Unknown Photographer

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photos of the #blackoutblackfriday protest at the galleria mall in st. louis. protestors are successfully getting the mall shut down as we speak. (photo credit: @deray)