Games culture

The way in which we theorise, look at and even play games has changed tremendously throughout the years as more and more of us are finding new ways and traditions of playing games the most common form of playing games is through technological devises and through the digital media. In this blog I will be going through the different forms of gaming culture and how us as individuals view games and whether we think it is or isn’t a significant part of our generation/ history.

There are many different types of games played through the media and digital software one of them commonly known as ‘social network games’, social network games are easy to access through various social networking sites but more through facebook. These particular types of online gaming consist of a few multiplayers’ that verse each other through online gaming. More than often games that are played through social networking are also referred to as browser games.

The history of gaming

The history of the computer game is, in parts, a history of technology. The computer game requires technology capable of handling large amounts of data and of representing this data. The relationship between a technological phenomenon such as the computer and the less formally based culture is not a simple one: some theories will claim that technology determines culture; some will claim that culture determines technology. It may be most reasonable to see this as a history of mutual influences, where technology can inspire (or enable) cultural developments and cultural developments can inspire new technology. To quote an obvious example, the computer game was originally developed on equipment designed for military and academic purposes. But today the computer game is the driving force in the development of much hardware such as 3d graphics accelerators.

References

http://www.jesperjuul.net/thesis/2-historyofthecomputergame.html

Globalization, Technicity and the Digital Divide

The term globalization is often used when referring to or talking about the spread and correspondence between production, communication, and technologies across the globe. As a phrase globalization accommodates a variety of profitable changes these changes can range from being social to political along with economic changes. With all that being said globalization also increases and even speeds up the trade of ideas and commodities over immense space. The impacts of globalization are often best understood at the local level many cases of globalization explore the various manifestations of interconnectedness in the world, nothing about how globalization affects real people and places.

Globalization repeatedly becomes known as being a force of the natural world, an experience that takes place and avoids limits or substitutes. However the association of individuals has revealed that globalization is neither unchangeable nor predictable. Societies from in and around  the world normal people from the global north and south can work together to form alternate futures, to build a globalization of cooperation, solidarity and respect for our common planetary environment.

Cultural globalization.

Another type of globalization is ‘cultural globalization’ which communicates the transmission of ideas, meanings and values universally. This course of action is evident by the common utilization of traditions that are beginning to be circulated by the internet, fashionable culture and global travel. This particular circulation of various cultures and traditions allows individuals to participate in extensive social affairs outside without having any limitations. The formation and growth of these social relations are not observed on any material level.

Digital divide - A term used to describe the discrepancy between people who have access to and the resources to use new information and communication tools, such as the Internet, and people who do not have the resources and access to the technology. The term also describes the discrepancy between those who have the skills, knowledge and abilities to use the technologies and those who do not. The digital divide can exist between those living in rural areas and those living in urban areas, between the educated and uneducated, between economic classes, and on a global scale between more and less industrially developed nations.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/digital_divide.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_globalization

          

                  CYBERWARFARE

In terms of action cyber warfare usually occurs when individuals take it upon them elves to abuse computers, electronics and technological devices in a desperate attempt and also with the intention of  to gain access and hack into the oppositions information system.

Cyber warfare corresponds well with information warfare as they can somehow relate to each other for instance information warfare is the transportation of communication through the usage of electronics and the internet to suspend. Telecommunication, power supply and transport in a particular region.

With regards to modern day social media and networking I would say that, in recent years popular social networking sites such as facebook and twitter have gained a lot of users as it is one of many diverse ways in which distant, close, and long lost friends, associates, family etc can keep in touch all because of the use of technology and the internet. With that being said I would also add that when starting up facebook/twitter etc you share a lot of personal information about yourself which automatically gets saved on to the facebook database and is available to be viewed by many.

This makes social media and networking an easy target for hacking which is considered as cyber warfare in view of the fact that it is common knowledge that a lot of private/ personal information, pictures messages are all being distributed through facebook so therefore hackers will gain a lot of informative profiles on individuals by just abusing and hacking there account.

Cyber warfare is Internet-based conflict involving politically motivated attacks on information and information systems. Cyber warfare attacks can disable official websites and networks, disrupt or disable essential services, steal or alter classified data, and cripple financial systems -- among many other possibilities.
References
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/cyberwarfare

    How the Media Informs Us about Democracy

 The media plays a huge role in most societies, and is considered to be a very significant tool as it is the main reason behind us finding out what’s going on in and around where we live as well as in different parts of the world.

There are various forms of the media which all do pretty much the same thing just in different ways. For example newspapers and tabloids inform us to a great extent as most individuals buy the times, the sun, the daily mirror etc on their way to work or even on the go and through these various forms of media we are able to gain valuable information and also enhance our knowledge about current affairs and government issues when it comes to to democracy.

Media democracy is a set of ideas advocating reforming the mass media, strengthening public service broadcasting, and developing and participating in alternative media and citizen journalism. The stated purpose for doing so is to create a mass media system that informs and empowers all members of society, and enhances democratic values. It is a liberal-democratic approach to media studies that advocates the reformation of the mass media with an emphasis on public service broadcasting and audience participation, through the use of citizen journalism and alternative media channels. A media democracy focuses on using information technologies to both empower individual citizens and promote democratic ideals through the spread of information

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_democracy

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more frequent in our generation with many films and games showing the rise of robotics and other machineries. Humans have recently started to ask silly questions such as will humans really replace robots?? Recent researchers have commented that they think humans and robots are becoming more and more intimate in many ways. And humans have started to view robotics in a whole new different way.

 Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and robots and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents"^[1] where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success -wikipedia

Digital Voices

During the industrialised revelation that took place in the mid 1970’s, many changes and developments started to occur in the world of technology and media for instance printing cooperation’s were made available to us at that time and then came the 1980’s and 90’s which opened allot of doors regarding the world of media technology and the correspondence it has with communication. On the matter of communication during the 90’[s era we were exposed to the rise of the internet and the World Wide Web in which people use to share information and receive information. Society today has taken a much modern approach when using the internet as more than a dozen of us nowadays mainly use the internet as a form of communication. All communications that take place using electronic devices such as the internet and web all come under the category of and are considered as media communication, as it is the use of media and conversation coming together as one.

Most technologies described as "new media" are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulated, networkable, dense, compressible, and interactive.^[1] Some examples may be the Internet, websites, computer multimedia, video games, CD-ROMS, and DVDs. New media does not include television programs, feature films, magazines, books, or paper-based publications – unless they contain technologies that enable digital interactivity. – Wikipedia

Thanks to modern day media and the discovery of internet the general public are now able to share and televise their voices digitally and freely over the net. These voice shared is a way in which they can share their views on currently revolving topics and

The digital mind

The close relationship between technology and humans is ever growing and is circulating tremendously, now more than ever the bond between the two is becoming noticeably intimate with more than a dozen of us acknowledging digital media and the effects it has on the human body.

This is mainly based on the body and to be precise the human mindset as our concepts of technology are beginning to change due to the vast amounts of new technologies being brought forward by large corporations. Along with how we feel and think about old existing and latest technological changes taking place in the world. The human mind is a very powerful appendage and as human beings it is a necessity for us to use our brain/minds to think. We often use our minds to stimulate information to adapt to certain societies and cultures most of all we use it to think particularly thinking is a huge aspect of the human body.