Author Archives: Lizblogger

In term 2, there was a lot of new information about social computing that i learnt. Looking back on this term, i have realised how useful it has been and i will take all this information away with me and … Continue reading →

If someone asked me what hacking meant or what a hacker does, I would automatically assume the worst; the News of the World phone hacking scandal immediately comes to mind, for example.  Or I would describe it as someone who … Continue reading →

For our final task of the term, we were asked to create accounts on OpenStreetMap and map Goldsmiths and the area around it. We had the choice to do it alone or in groups, but were suggested to do it … Continue reading →

The topics we have talked about for the past few weeks have been liveness and mobile. Liveness comes in many forms; from streams on twitter to video calls on skype. In a lab we tried and tested bambuser which is … Continue reading →

For the past few weeks, we have been talking about data-mining, which, the way i see it, is the breakdown of data to extract information in order to reveal useful or new ideas. As discussed in lectures and labs, our … Continue reading →

Looking back on the first term of the social media course makes me realise that i have learnt a lot about: some of the history of computing, current aspects of computing and the possible directions in which computing could take in the future. … Continue reading →

The task that was given to us was to edit a Hitler parody video by adding subtitles about a particular topic studied in lectures or something in general to do with social computing. The topics we decided to chose as … Continue reading →

For the past two weeks, we have continued to learn about the effect of people coming together to achieve something that different collective groups feel strongly about. The people involved usually all have their own opinions on specific subjects and … Continue reading →

The main topic that has stood out for me this week has been copyright and the issue dealing with stealing products or pieces of work for example. This has been particularly memorable and interesting because some people work hard to … Continue reading →