Reflections on How and Why We Love Media
The first link I open in Google to find out my true identity is LinkedIn. I can see my work history and education background, at least I think it’s mine, as there’s no picture. I cannot access the whole profile without signing in. The next one is Facebook. I can only access my background and …
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To suffer from memory loss, amnesia is a horrible thought. My first thought that came to my mind is the film The Bourne Identity. The main character of the film, Jason Bourne suffers from amnesia after an assassination attempt and has to figure out who he is. Gradually he finds out he is former trained …
Continue reading “Janne Leivo /Who you are in the Internet world”
My total amnesia made me curious about my own life, so I tried to discover myself by looking for my name (the only information I have about me) on the internet, and this is the result: The first thing I get to know is that I have a very common name. In order to find …
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Total black-out. Facebook – assuming that amnesia caused me to forget my Facebook password, there is really nothing much to look at. All I see is a bunch of cover photos. From them I can sum up that supposedly I snowboard, have at least 2 friends who take pictures with me, watch anime and like …
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I find myself constantly looking at people in the streets with their headphones on and wondering what they are listening to. Then I found this video, started in New York a few years ago. This filmmaker wanted to stop people on the streets, and ask them what music they are listening to in their headphones. …
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In class we talked about how media changes our concept of reality. We are looking at reality as something we can edit and we speak about in “media terms” such as freezing, fast forward, rewinding etc. We saw some examples of pictures inspired by Harry Potter and Star Wars, where people acted in real life …
When I was a kid I remember watching the TV shows. I used to spend hours in front of the scream. For me, that was the best entertainment, since my mom would not let me out that often to play with the other kids on the streets. As the time passed by, and the violence …
Does your room look messy all the time? Do you have a hard time convincing your kids to do the dishes? Oddly enough, there is an Alternative Reality Game for that. In Chore Wars, you’re not only taking the garbage out or cleaning up the toilet seat – you’re also leveling up and slaying deadly …
This is an advert that I came across, I think last year, many times. It is a Windows touch screen computer add. I find this add intriguing because it shows a little girl first pondering what do. She seems to be bored with her “old school” blackboard and chalk. After her mother kindly replaces the …
Yesterday’s discussions about the desire of us humans to edit our reality made me think about the virtual currency called Bitcoin. BTC is a digital currency based on open source code that was developed by someone by the screen name of Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Bitcoin users utilize cryptography to send and receive money (bitcoins) …
Why I Heart My Media 