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cheekygosling-bct-blog · 6 years ago

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Reflective Journaling: The Kolb Cycle

THE KOLB CYCLE

Concrete Experience: Cards for Play

Cards for Play was a group project that took place at the beginning of the year, with the brief being: Design and make a deck of cards that encourage, frame and/or facilitate play. A group consisting of myself and 6 others initially planned to create an experience based upon the concept of nostalgia, and reliving one's past by revisiting these memories, primarily by using popular culture, like movies, music and TV. Upon playtesting our concept, we found it played like an awful trivial pursuit knockoff, being much slower and easier, and that it did not represent the play aesthetics we were going for (fellowship, narrative and challenge).[1] At this point, we were more than halfway into the time for our project, and that our concept was boring at best, and a rip-off at worst. The group and I decided that it would be best for us to completely start from scratch, with a completely new concept and throwing out all our previous ideas. This concept used the same play aesthetics as before, but with the concept being using a variety of random items to solve different tasks.

Reflective Observation

We submitted this as our final concept, and while we did receive a good grade, and I was overall happy with what we had created, I felt jaded about it. In my opinion, it seemed unoriginal, taking ideas from other similar card games and merging them into one. Even though our original, nostalgia-based concept ended up ultimately failing, and costing us a lot of time, I wonder if we decided to persevere with that idea, and overcome the hurdle that it was unfun to play, that we could have continued to develop it and ultimately have made a concept that was much more original. I understand the idea of ��there’s nothing new under the sun”, but it felt as if our submitted idea was a lot more unoriginal, as it eventually boiled down to “pick the funniest answer”, which has been overdone recently with games like Cards Against Humanity.

The decision to start over after our failed playtest seemed to be a very unanimous decision. The group was very passionate about the nostalgia idea, as it meant we could explore media and objects that we felt were important and meaningful to us during our own childhood. We had so much fun with revisiting and researching for these objects, I think it resulted in us becoming quite “tunnel-visioned”, we only saw the positives, and didn’t look at the negatives or any other ideas that could’ve resulted in a good project.

While starting over was good for group morale, it put us under a lot of pressure. We were back at the beginning and now had less than half the time we had originally planned for. I think this time pressure led to us cutting corners and creating a less developed concept. Each new iteration of our problem-solving game concept was only tested quickly, and further testing may have exposed new flaws. For example, we only tested on small groups of 3-4, whereas the game can be played with many more than that. Even coming up with the concept was rushed. We had a couple small ideas that went nowhere, and as soon as a group member came up with this, we took it and got started. There was little evaluation of the idea and the pros and cons it came with.

Abstract Conceptualization

How entrepreneurs craft strategies that work [2]

I wanted to look at originality, specifically from entrepreneurs, who’s entire business and success is based on risk, which I view as what happens within the BCT. I wanted to compare success between entrepreneurs whose ideas and concepts are new and innovative and those that are less original. From the paper, How entrepreneurs craft strategies that work, it theorized that the success of entrepreneurs varies, but all should consider 3 things:

Objectives of the venture

Leverage provided by external change

Basis of competition: Proprietary Assets Versus Hustle

Looking at these factors, I think it shows that both of our concepts have merit in different ways. Both concepts meet the objective of the venture by following the project brief (deck of cards, encouraging/facilitating play). Both ideas don’t particularly break into new opportunities and industries, but like I said before, there is nothing new under the sun. There are already card games based on being funny within a group and there are plenty of ways one can explore nostalgia, especially on popular culture with the prevalence of the internet. And both ideas have low costs associated with the physical item (Proprietary Assets), while being unique enough from similar concepts to pique interest that we could pitch it as a different idea (Hustle). I like these factors, as I think it is good to find a balance between artistic expression and business and marketable value.

The effect of time pressure on risky choice behavior [3]

I also wanted to investigate time pressure, specifically how decisions are impacted depending on the amount of time one has. The book, Acta Psychologica (Volume 47, Issue 2), details this. Subjects chose between pairs of gambles under different time pressures (8,16 and 32 seconds). The results showed that subjects with less time to decide took gambles with less risk. It appeared that subjects with higher amounts of time to decide were able to way up the pros and cons, calculating what choice was optimal. I think this applies to our project. After starting again halfway through the project, we didn’t want to take any risks, as it took time to weigh up the pros and cons. If we took the chance and it did not pay off, negative consequences would have been detrimental, hurting our team's morale and impacting our chances of finishing on time. We took all the low risk chances, as just like in the study, those under greater time considered the negatives much more than the positives.

Active Experimentation

Easily, I think the best way of using what I have learnt from this is to just plan-ahead. Our nostalgia concept was our first proper idea. We didn’t explore anything else, and as soon as we had come up with it, we dived straight in, developing card ideas and ways to make our experience enjoyable. We didn’t have a backup plan or other ideas that we could use if this didn’t work out. While this did put us ahead in the short term, allowing us to work on the content for our experience much earlier than expected, it was our downfall in the end.

Another thing I want to consider is trying to stay “grounded”. What I mean by this is taking a step back and looking at the project as a whole. Our nostalgia concept was planned to use an app and incorporate NFC tags. The time we were given was 3 weeks, nowhere near enough to develop our ideas into what we had envisioned. We needed to be realistic in our abilities and the time needed to implement each idea. I think it's about finding the balance between a unique and creative idea, while also not shooting down every idea that is suggested because its “too hard” or “we don’t have enough time”. By making sure that we know what we are creating and how we can achieve it, I think it can result in much less problems later down the road.

One more thing I want to consider is looking at the way we can overcome problems. Our nostalgia idea was thrown out after one failed playtest. Maybe if we tested more, we could have identified the real problem, but we instead started all over again. While I'm not saying this was the worst option, we could have tried to fix the problem, or even keep the research and overall theme we had done and shape it into a different project. I think the best way to avoid this is to keep an open mind. We were tunnel-visioned with our first idea, and when that failed, we wanted nothing to do with it. If we branched off into different directions, we could have salvaged it, saving us a lot of time and stress.

Finally, I want to consider the entrepreneurial factors I looked at in the Harvard Business Review paper in my next projects. I think it would be a great learning experience to consider the business aspects of my project, rather than just meeting what the brief wants me to.

[1] Hunicke, R., LeBlanc, M., & Zubek, R. (2004). MDA: A formal approach to game design and game research (Vol. 4, p. 1). Presented at the Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Challenges in Game AI

[2] Bhide, A. (1994). How entrepreneurs craft strategies that work. Harvard Business Review, 72(2), 150-161.

[3] Zur, H. B., & Breznitz, S. J. (1981). The effect of time pressure on risky choice behavior. Acta Psychologica, 47(2), 89-104.

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sporadicsublimefestival · 4 years ago

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edulzuraeroygalambao · 4 years ago

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Module 1: Summative Activity

Our world started with relaying every piece of information with their mouths; orally. The first newspaper to be published is dated as early as 131/130 BC in Rome and it’s called “Acta Diurna,” according to Mingren (2017). They were carved in stone and metal, and eventually hand-written on papyrus. 17th century Europe then replaced hand-written news sheets with printed periodicals, thanks to the invention of publishing presses. This lessened the labor cost required to mass-produce newspapers and keep on publishing week after week. Also, it is more convenient to have your news on paper than just simply spoken from someone because one can keep the paper and read it again if they wish to do so.

In between the invention of the newspaper and invention of the radio stands the invention of telephones but we'll skip it and proceed to radios, the next big thing when it comes to relaying news. Radio broadcasting began in the 1900s where instead of people carrying news around in their pockets or bags, they can now listen to it everywhere. (Bellis, 2019) Just like the shift of change from oral to written media, the reason is still the convenience it gives to the audience and to the producers themselves. Although it should be noted that newspapers were still widely produced and spread.

Television broadcasting started in the late 1920s with television sets produced and released commercially around the 1930s. (Defree, 2019) Now media can be both seen and heard, which increases the convenience for the common audience. Information is relayed everywhere with the mass production of televisions, the device becoming a staple appliance in the living room. But still, during these times, the newspaper and radio industry still thrived as some people still preferred the mobility of both.

Personal computers then came into the market around the 1970s. Its difference with mainframe computers is that it’s less expensive and it’s bigger so only large businesses and government organizations used them. Small and medium-sized businesses, and primary and secondary schools utilize the use of personal computers. Now every piece of information is inside one database, accessed by anyone as long as they are allowed to. This greatly increased the efficiency and productivity of people and therefore was more sought for, compared to the other ways of communication.

However, it should be noted that due to the advancements in hardware and software, the newspaper, the radio and the television can all be accessed with a personal computer with just one click, which is why personal computers will continue to be demanded and supplied. Also, oral communication is now improved with the boundaries of distance and time practically non-existent due to video calls and video conferencing. The whole world is now connected within a series of networks, providing more convenience to the ordinary person.

And if that isn’t enough, the mass production of mobile phones also started around the 1970s although it’s main (and only) function was to bridge the gap of communication in different regions. Now, mobile phones are a different story. Just like a personal computer, it has become a portal to the online network, where one can simply open an application and can read news, watch news, listen to news, watch any shows and many more. It has become the pinnacle of convenience for humans. In relation to this, companies are on their way to heightening up the experience through what they call VR or Virtual Reality, because looking at a plain screen is not enough; it must also mimic what an average person can experience if he was to communicate face-to-face or to move things around with his hand.

With the changing times, as technology sought to surpass itself, mass communication made a rather undeniable impact on our society. To cite an example for politics, campaigning for a position is no longer limited to plastering posters on the streets and speaking platitudes towards an assembled crowd. Politicians can take their campaigns to TV advertisements, spread infographics on social media and pay a group of spammers to shout support one and bash the competition. For politics, there is the simple matter of controlling people's perspective by controlling the information that reaches the masses. With enough range and power, an official can shut down the widest reaching telecommunications company in the case of personal grudge. Not to make an example of anyone but two presidents have done this so far.

Mass media communication has so far shaped what we know to be convenience, even economics was made to be within reach with the use of mobile banking apps. Payments can be made now with a few taps on your mobile phone with apps like GCash and etc.; stock markets can be observed over the internet, and not only that bit-coin is also gaining traction. Lifestyles have changed as almost everything can be done from the comfort of your own home, although that only applies if you have a stable internet connection. And will only progress forward from this.

At the moment, even as we are struggling through online classes with the ongoing pandemic, it is still a form of progress for mass communications. Though it is rocky at best and is not so thoroughly prepared with how the Commision on Higher Education (CHED) and The Department of Education (Dep-Ed) have pushed to rush the school year, it is still a start towards something new. Maybe 50 years in the future, online classes would be more immersive with a virtual reality simulator or perhaps education wouldn't need physical teachers anymore because everything we need to learn will be a chip installed to the motherboard of our cyborg bodies. Our devices will be holograms and people can have personal AI butlers to help with our daily tasks. But alas, one can only speculate.

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Deffree, S. (2019, July 2). 1st American TV stations begins broadcasing, July 2, 1928. Retrieved from EDN: https://www.edn.com/1st-american-tv-station-begins-broadcasting-july-2-1928/

History of mobile phones and the first mobile phone. (2020, June 4). Retrieved from Uswitch: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.uswitch.com/mobiles/guides/history-of-mobile-phones/amp/

Jasmin. (2017, September 17). The Evolution of Communication [Infographic]. Retrieved from Daily Infographic: https://www.dailyinfographic.com/the-evolution-of-communication-infographic.

Medhurst, J. (2019, September 27). How publiv TV broadcasting was born. Retrieved from The Conversation: https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/how-public-tv-broadcasting-was-born-120315

Norr, H. R. (n.d.). Personal computer. Retrieved from Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/technology/personal-computer

Tirosh, G. (n.d.). Timeline of Mass Production Computers. Retrieved from History by day: https://www.historybyday.com/inventions/timeline-of-mass-production-computers/

Venditti, P. Introduction to Communication. Lumen. Retrieved from Lumen: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/introductiontocommunication/chapter/evolution-of-mass-communication/

Wu, M. (2017, December 23). Acta Diurna: The Telegraph of Ancient Rome, Bringing You All the Latest Gladiator News. Retrieved from Ancient Origins: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/acta-diurna-telegraph-ancient-rome-bringing-you-all-latest-gladiator-021770

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Facebook developed secret software to censor user posts in China, Maybe Opera

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Facebook developed secret software to censor user posts in China, Maybe Opera

Fb has advanced censorship software so that you can get China to lift its seven-yr ban on the sector’s biggest social network, in step with reports.

The social community evolved the software to suppress posts from appearing in users’ news feeds in precise geographies with the guide of the chief govt, Mark Zuckerberg, in step with the NY Times. The posts themselves will no longer be suppressed, simplest their visibility.

A Facebook spokesperson stated: “We’ve long said that we’re interested in China, and are spending time expertise and gaining knowledge of more about u. S . A ..

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“But, We’ve got not made any choice on our approach to China.”

The Cybersecurity Management of China, the United States’ net regulator, did no longer immediately reply to request for comment. China’s overseas ministry declined to comment.

China banned Facebook after the Urumqi riots in July 2009 to be able to stem the float of statistics about the unrest which left 140 people useless. The ban denied the social community get entry to the arena’s largest population of internet users if you want to be critical to Facebook’s continued growth.

Might offer the software program to enable third events to reveal famous tales and subjects that benefit visibility as users share them across the network. The 0.33-celebration partners could have complete manage to decide whether or not the one’s posts ought to display up in customers’ feeds. However, there may be no indication that Facebook has presented the software program to China yet.

US net groups have a practice of complying with ultimate authorities requests to block posted records in step with nearby laws, a challenge to evaluation.

Facebook restricted content in a score of countries within the second 1/2 of final 12 months, according to the business enterprise’s most current transparency file.

In Russia, it restrained content material that government there started violated “the integrity of the Russian Federation and local law which forbids sports together with mass public riots and the advertising and sale of medicine.”

get right of entry to items in Pakistan turned into restrained because of allegations that nearby blasphemy laws had been violated.

In France,

Fb limited content mentioned below laws prohibiting denying the Holocaust or condoning terrorism. It also eliminated posts of a photo referring to the November 2015 terrorist assaults in Paris at the grounds they violated French laws associated with the safety of human dignity.

Meanwhile, Fb has come beneath fireplace inside the past few months from those who accuse the social community of now not having performed sufficient to filter fake news shops which can have swayed the final results of America presidential election. Guidelines that Facebook is seeking to gather cell technology firm Opera Software propelled the Norwegian group’s percentage fee 26% better on Tuesday morning.

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Opera makes one of the world’s most widely used cellular telephone net browsers, and Mark Zuckerberg’s social network is reportedly interested in the company as a part of a plan to create a Facebook cellphone.

After surging through 1 / four at the Oslo stock trade

Opera shares fell returned through noon but remained 17% higher than Friday’s remaining price at forty.1 Norwegian krone (NOK), valuing the company at four.8bn NOK (£510m).

The employer declined to remark, at the same time as founder Jon von Tetzchner, who is the biggest shareholder with 10.9%, said he was now not privy to talks, in keeping with Reuters. Facebook has 350m cell users a month, but has struggled to sell marketing on phone displays and is looking to expand its control over the cell revel in.

It is weeks far from launching its smartphone apps keep, to promote and review offerings such as Pinterest and Spotify that incorporate Fb links. Zuckerberg is thought to have recruited half of a dozen iPhone engineers from Apple and is stated to be working with Taiwanese manufacturer HTC on a brand new handset.

“In our view, a bid for Opera makes the strategic experience for Facebook, and We’ve formerly mentioned the possibilities for co-operation between the two groups,” an analyst at Norwegian financial institution DNB said. “We count on that any a hit bid could pay at least double the ultimate fee from Friday. We’ve a buy recommendation on Opera with a rate target of 60 NOK in keeping with proportion.”

Doubling Friday’s closing rate would place a £860m fee tag at the firm.

Opera creates browsers that permit computing device computers and phones to get right of entry to the net, and its software works with Apple and Microsoft machines. Even though Opera’s presence on computing device computer systems – wherein browsers from Apple, Microsoft, Google and Mozilla tend to dominate – is confined, it has been a hit on second cellular telephones.

The Opera Mini browser, which goes on even secure handsets with small monitors and limited memory, has been widely followed in emerging markets and means 250 million human beings use an Opera product every month.

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Fb is threatened with legal motion

In Germany over its facial popularity software program, which critics say violates privacy and facts safety legal guidelines.

The tool runs all pix uploaded to the social networking website online via a programme and identifies the person’s pals on each Facebook photos facebook profile. Facebook page, the Facebook wall is full of pictures. There was an outcry while it becomes rolled out in June to extra than 500m individuals international, even though users can choose out of the automatic tagging, Facebook can still acquire and shop (indefinitely) all pics added to the website.

Now Hamburg’s statistics safety reliable has written to Facebook to call for it stops walking the facial recognition programme on German customers and deletes any related records. Johannes Caspar said the German government would take motion if Facebook did no longer comply and will face fines of as much as €three hundred,000 (£262,000).

“must Facebook hold the characteristic, it have to make sure that best statistics from folks who have declared consent to the garage in their biometric facial profiles be saved within the database,” he said. The software offered the capability for “enormous abuse” and turned into unlawful.

It is not the primary time multinational era firms have hit problems in Germany, which takes online privacy much extra seriously than many different international locations. In April, Google stated it would now not be collecting any additional pictures for its German Avenue View undertaking. The selection observed a sequence of objections after the mapping of 20 German towns for the provider, which takes photos of each Road and assets within a municipality. Germany’s privacy legal guidelines restrict photographs of human beings and property besides in public locations, which includes a carrying event, with out someone’s consent.

“The felony scenario is clear for my part,” Caspar advised Wednesday’s Hamburger Abendblatt. “If the information had been to get into the incorrect fingers, then a person with a photo taken on a cell cellphone should use biometrics to examine the snap shots and make an identification,” he stated. Undemocratic governments might utilise this sort of machine to secret agent on the competition or by protection offerings around the arena. “The proper to anonymity is at risk,” he said.

Caspar is subsidised using the federal patron protection ministry. “We anticipate Fb to comply with all Ecu and German records protection standards and for it to respond to the request from the Hamburg regional records safety officer,” said a spokeswoman.

A Fb spokeswoman advised Spiegel on line the agency turned into searching at Caspar’s request, but that it “firmly rejected any accusations that we aren’t complying with our obligations to European Union statistics protection laws”.

A predicted 75bn pix were uploaded to Facebook since it was an installation by way of Mark Zuckerberg as an internet directory for Harvard students in 2004.

Social networks which include Facebook and Twitter can not be required to put in an anti-piracy filtering system, the EU courtroom of justice has dominated.

Europe’s top courtroom has made the ruling in a case introduced through Belgian tune royalties firm Sabam towards the internet site Netlog.

Sabam wanted the court docket to claim that Netlog and other social networks have to actively display music and video published by way of users to ensure that it does now not infringe copyright.

However, the ECJ ruled that requiring social networks to put in anti-piracy filtering software program might fall foul of the present e-trade directive.

The ruling turned into welcomed through online advocacy agencies, who have warned that unfettered use of the internet is underneath risk from the debatable anti-counterfeiting change agreement (Acta).

Netlog has tens of millions of users every day, according to the courtroom. Sabam claimed that some its customers illicitly shared copyright music and films on the website.

The ECJ dominated that an anti-piracy filter could require social networks to carry out “energetic remark” of facts shared by users.

“For that reason, such an injunction might bring about a severe infringement of the freedom of the hosting provider to conduct its business due to the fact it would require that hosting provider provider to put in a complicated, highly-priced, everlasting PC machine at its very own rate,” the ECJ stated inside the judgment.

“[The] injunction ought to probably undermine freedom of information, for the reason that that system won’t distinguish competently between unlawful content material and lawful content material, with the result that its introduction ought to cause the blockading of legitimate communications.”

The judgment will be used as legal precedent in courts throughout the EU where this aspect of Eu regulation is in the query.

Peter Bradwell, the Open Rights Institution campaigner, welcomed the ruling. He said: “It’s top to peer courts promoting our rights by way of swatting away plans to snoop on human beings’ use of social networks. It’s far especially timely due to the fact, as visible in agreements like ACTA, policymakers anywhere find it a great deal tougher to admire our rights when making intellectual belongings policy.”

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