Internet and Media

What is the primary source of news for you?

For me, I always read newspapers to absorb primary sources in the past. Because of the internet was not well-developed, read of newspaper is the mainly for most citizens to absorb primary sources. Until to 20^th century, using of internet is a new trend for us to search different kind of primary sources. Despite of using internet, there is no way for people to communicate with others and engage into different social conduits. For examples, we are not only using Facebook to keep in touch with others, but also searching information by using kinds of searchers and so on. Nowadays, most of us cannot live without internet. It is beneficial to our daily life since the internet is tailor made for non-object news. We could easy to find and synthesize different views.

Do you think that ‘mass media’ will some day be totally replaced by digital media / internet?

Actually, I think that “mass media” will be totally replaced by internet in some day. Since the internet was “word of mouth” in nowadays, any of us could be reporters to report different news. It is convenience that the news could transmit to every websites without any constrains. You could say what you want to say in the internet. So that the roles of media transmitted from specific reporters to the majority of people who using internet. It is good that the internet provides different ways for us to synthesize different views and to find information easily.

Digital Knowledge Sharing

 

What is a brief history of the encyclopedia?

An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from all branches of knowledge. Encyclopedias have existed for around 2,000 years; the oldest still in existence, Naturalis Historia, was written in ca. 77 CE by Pliny the Elder. The modern encyclopedia evolved out of dictionaries around the 17th century. Historically, some encyclopedias were contained in one volume, such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica or the world´s largest Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana, became huge multi-volume works. Some modern encyclopedias are electronic and are often freely available, for example Wikipedia.


What are some key features of that encyclopedia
According to Wikipedia:
Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries, which are usually accessed by article name^. Encyclopedia entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries. It is like generally speaking, unlike dictionary entries, which focus on linguistic information about words, encyclopedia articles focus on factual information to cover the thing or concept for which the article name stands.Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge disseminated around the globe; to set forth its general system to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to those who will come after us, so that the work of preceding centuries will not become useless to the centuries to come; and so that our offspring, becoming better instructed, will at the same time become more virtuous and happy, and that we should not die without having rendered a service to the human race in the future years to come.

According to Encyclopedia Brittannica:

Encyclopædia is a general knowledge English-language Encyclopedia that is available in print, as a DVD and on the Internet. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert contributors. It is regarded as one of the most scholarly of encyclopaedias. It divided the paper work into several parts; some of the contents are totally scientific and force on the art. Because of the encyclopaedias will force on different aspects at different period of time. So that the information will be concentrate on very specific topics. 

Which encyclopedia was most useful for this research?

In this research, I think Wikipedia was more useful. Because the use of Wikipedia system was more simple and easy than Encyclopedia Brittannica. As I said it before, Encyclopedia Brittannica was divided in to articles. It was generally liked speaking rather than to present such ideas or concept to viewers.

Can you trust this encyclopedia (the one you used) 100%? Why or why not?

I cannot trust this encyclopedia totally. Since some of the information is freely edited by anyone, each of us could freely entry and uploads what they want to say to Wikipedia. It means that this information and research were unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake. So that we need to bear in mind to take care to choose this kind of information. Avoid using wrong information to cause any misleading and misunderstanding.

Digital photography

What is the difference between analog photography and digital photography?

Analog photography is a commonly term for photography that uses a progressively changing recording medium. And the Digital photography is a form of photography that the sensitive sensors of light to capture the image focused by the lens. It seems that the digital one can capture image to store as a digital file ready for digital processing viewing or printing, but the analog one must need to print it out to view.

What use is digital technology to photographers?

The photographers could use some of the software to improve the quality of photos. It is hard for photographers to ensure the quality of photos, like the colors, spaces, line combination and so on. Therefore, Photoshop is a good helper for them to edit those photos to make it perfectly.   

Is photographic truth at an end? Has it ever existed?

I think the photographic truth has still existed. The photographers will use Photoshop for editing which to ensure or improve the quality of photos. Since the photographers captured different moments through different angles, although it may not impartial enough and it can still reflect some parts of truth to the audiences. The most cricial duties of photographers are to persent the truth to the audiences, maybe some of them influenced by commercial and to present those more visually rather than the truth. But they can still present the truth of first capture.

Photoshop