Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Week 1 - Tutorial Task

Introduction
What drives me is variety. Life is short and what you make of it and I don’t like wasting a moment of it. Health is the most important thing for me so I try to eat well and exercise daily although the odd Tim Tam creeps into my diet and those lazy days sometimes take over. I am human after all. I have extensive interests and hobbies from dancing salsa, a passion for travelling, seeking out new experiences through different cultures and languages. This passion took me to France and Spain where I spent 4 years teaching English to business people whilst studying French and Spanish.  I was also fortunate enough to backpack around South & Central America for a year and hope to travel extensively throughout my life.  I worked as a Property Manager in Real Estate up until the beginning of this year but felt that I needed to change my direction and coming to University had been on my mind for quite some time before I submitted my application. Communication is so diverse and so far I have been able to complete courses in Journalism, Marketing, News Photography, and Academic Writing. This semester I have chosen Public Relations, NCT, Creative Writing and Sociology. I hope to major in Marketing and Public Relations however tomorrow is another day and I never know what is over the page.

Week 1 - Response to Content

Old communication technology is analogue and new is digital. Moors law states that technology doubles every 18 months so it would appear that as per this law everything I own is old technology; from my 4 year OLD television to my 3 year OLD mobile and my 2 year OLD eye pod. Although I no longer own anything analogue, with the constant changing of technology as soon as a new model of digital communication is released the previous is soon to be upgraded to keep up with the times.

The main issues in new communications technology are cyber bullying, computer hacking, misinformation, online gambling and National Broadband Network.

Hacking is of great concern as it links in with even greater concerns such as the right each and every one of us have to privacy. When information gets into the wrong hands it can lead to identity theft. I saw a case on the news just a couple of weeks ago where a man's identity had been stolen and the thief had taken out a mortgage in this man's name. He had bought him a house in a neighbourhood that he'd never been to and a house that he hadn't seen.
Computer hacking is on the rise and not even our Prime Minister is safe from this invasion of privacy. In March it was reported that hackers managed to hack into Parliament House computers to obtain information from numerous ministers including PM Julia Gillard's email(ABC Premium News 2011, p.1) accounts. A suspect mentioned that foreign intelligence agencies to be possible culprits for the hacking incident.

Anonymous, 29 March 2011, ‘Government tight-lipped on Gillard hacking claim’, ABC Premium News, p.1 viewed 29 July 2011, via ProQuest