Addition to blog post 1---published by TOI on 27 Jan 2011

US video game inspired Moscow airport attack?  Moscow: Russian media has pointed out the similarities between the bloody scenes depicted in a popular US video game with attack at Domodedovo International Airport, sparking a heated debate on the content of the game.     The bloody scenes of the Moscow attack are reminiscent of what can be seen in an year-old video game, the scenario of which controversially involves a character urged to kill civilians in an imaginary Russian airport, a TV channel said. The blast at Domodedovo Airport has sparked hot debate on the stuff of a popular American video game ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’, sold worldwide.     “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become a shocking reality,” English language Russia Today...

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Do digital artifacts have politics

digital artifacts is any  man made tool not real but digital . Eg:- software’s , game etc.    So the topic is do digital artifacts have politics. We can analyses the above by taking an example. By politics what  we mean here is that every one who get a access to the artifact is not discriminated by any means. Now talk a example of racists discrimination in video games.Racism is understandably a very sensitive issue. The world in the video game is virtual.  You do all crimes and still get away with no punishments.  All these are acceptable. But some one points out the racist discrimination in the video game, how to take it , can we take it as accidental error , or a planed act of the programmer. Let us take a example.A...

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POLITICS IN SEARCH ENGINES ??– INTERPRETIVE NATURE OF AN INTERNET ARTEFACT

INTRODUCTION:                     Web search is critical to our ability to use the Internet. Whoever controls search engines has enormous influence on us all. They can shape what we read, who we listen to, and who gets heard perhaps, controls the Internet itself. Today, no one comes closer to controlling search than Google does. In this post, I’ll describe a few of the ways that individuals, companies, and even governments have tried to shape Google’s results to serve their goals. INEFFECTIVE LINKED SEARCH & GOOGLEBOMBING:                     In 2001, a college student named Adam Mathes noticed...

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PHOTO MANIPULATION

DO ARTIFACTS HAVE POLITICS?   Digital artifacts have politics, they have a great affect on politics and people. I have taken the case of photo manipulation to show how they affect the politics and opinion of the people.    PHOTO MANIPULATION While it’s been said the camera doesn’t lie and there are many who would take issue with that axiom, it’s an unfortunate belief that photographers (or more likely those who handle their pictures) can at least fudge the content of an image. Particularly pictures intended to sell products or ideas. Photography has lost its innocence many years ago. Photo manipulation is as old as photography itself; contrary to the idea of a photo having inherent verisimilitude. Photo manipulation...

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Amazon.com & What politics has to do with it?

"Do artifacts have politics?" This has been the hot topic for many Anthropologists and it also spread to our HS class this week.I will explain this by taking an example of world renowned website "Amazon.com". Amazon.com, is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company.It is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Intenet sales revenue. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and launched it online in 1995.It was named as Amazon because the Amazon River is the largest river in the world, showing its vastness of resources and partly also because it start with "A", the first letter in the Alphabets, and therefore strives to be the top most consumer satisfactory company. It started as an online bookstore, as most...

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DO ARTIFACTS HAVE POLITICS?---Google Earth

Google Earth   Onto a personal opinion artifacts can have politics or even not depending upon the “eyes” through which we watch them and the artifact we watch. In Future, chances of monopoly over internet may lead to authoritarianism.  We started by stating the presence of technology as being political. Taken into account the essence of technology’s impact on society; Such as the automobile, cell phone, internet, i-phones, i-pod’s, are described as democratizing. The idea of control over internet and technology holds to that of a big responsibility and wouldn't work in a democratic society, is an example of technology dictating politics. Artifacts play an important role in the “way of life”.Some...

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Do Digital Artifact have Politics ?

 DO ARTIFACTS HAVE POLITICS? [from Winner, L. (1986). The whale and the reactor: a search for limits in an age of high technology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 19-39.] No idea is more provocative in controversies about technology and society than the notion that technical things have political qualities. At issue is the claim that the machines, structures, and systems of modern material culture can be accurately judged not only for their contributions to efficiency and productivity and their positive and negative environmental side effects, but also for the ways in which they can embody specific forms of power and authority. Since ideas of this kind are a persistent and troubling presence in discussions about the meaning of technology, they deserve explicit attention. Within...

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FACEBOOK......Get Addicted !!!

  It starts of with a simple exploration of your friends on the site and suddenly you are logging on 10 times a day to see if any of your friends have made updates to their profile, changed their relationship status or have posted new videos or articles. Suddenly you are glued to your computer monitor and the only thing on the screen is "Facebook."  A growing body of research in the area of addiction suggests that Internet Addiction Disorder is becoming a real problem, it is a psycho-physiological disorder involving tolerance; withdrawal symptoms; affective disturbances; and interruption of social relationships. The most common one is Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD).  1/ The first thing is tolerance. This refers to the need for increasing amounts of time on...

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