Digital audio

For this assignment I will be reviewing the book The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World written by Howard Gardner and Katie Davis. The idea for this book evolved from a conversation between Gardner and his colleagues of Harvard Project Zero regarding technology and how it influences the “ethical compass of young users.” This topic became of particular interest to Davis thus, she began her doctoral study on the subject at hand…

literature Review – Digital Natives "The arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decade of the 20th century has changed the way students think and process information” (Prensky 1).This notion is at the heart of what has become the ‘digital native debate’ – i.e. should education systems be changed in order to accommodate a new generation of technologically savvy learners? The term ‘digital native’ itself refers to those who were born or raised during the age of digital…

The aroma of aged and contemporary books when you saunter into the library building, would you miss that? Touching books, writing in them, highlighting them, bookmarking them. Libraries are suffused with so many different resources for researching rather than just books. The card catalog categorizes all the books and where to locate them. Now this process has gone electronically along with the mechanism of checking out books. Is this the future of libraries, a virtual library where everything is…

Meta Description: The Ring Doorbell Camera replaces your doorbell and provides video-recording and motion alerts at your main door, even when away from home. Introduction The Ring Video Doorbell is a new and innovative twist of the traditional analogue internet-enabled surveillance cameras. The gadget comes with easy-to-use application that you can install in your tablet or smartphone to view your guests by simply pressing a button. You will use to talk to your visitors at the main gate via…

Recording by Francis Rumsey and Tim McCormick, discusses the principles of digital audio, and contrasts digital with analog. The text also illustrates how digital and analog work together to produce desired sound. In the world of audio there are two types; digital and analog. Analog can be described as physical or tangible in a sense, being etched onto some type of media. Digital however, is a representation of the audio waveform, which is converted into a sequence of binary numbers. Each of…

After teaching my two lessons on phonemic segmentation and observing the two students during whole class instruction I have drawn various conclusions on both the students strengths and weaknesses. Student A excels at being able to tap out sounds within a three sound word, as student B is able to tap out the individual sounds of words with 4-5 sounds in them. These activities however acted as review for the students being as they were exposed to these concepts in kindergarten. During whole class…

Often times iconic scenes in a movie will have amazing music, sound effects and vocals to tie the whole scene together, and with all of these, visuals are not really needed, they will only give a crystal clear image of what the director has already portrayed with sound. One example could be the shower scene in Psycho; if you turn off the screen and only listen to the sound; an almost crystal clear visual is made because you can hear what is actually going on. Another perfect example is the…

by a skilled person or group of people playing instruments, whether it be a piano performance or an entire orchestra. In the twentieth-century, however, music began to change. With the help of digital technology, new ways to create music emerged. One of these ways is through a computer using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). There are many benefits to using a DAW for music, but there are also advantages to keeping things acoustic, or without electronics. Using a DAW for music is a lot more…

Discuss the way that new digital technology has had an effect on film form and/or exhibition: This is an era of rapidly changing technology. This technology changes the way people eat, move, work… it affects every aspect of everyday life. Technology is also affecting film form. The way that the industry makes, edits and releases films is all affected by digital technology. High Resolution digital cameras are utilised in most budgeted film productions, most productions go through an editing…

The rapid growth of social media, and digital technology use over the past decade, has created a new avenue for employers to monitor and investigate their employees and potential employees. (Broughton, Higgins, Hicks & Cox, 2009) The Online Oxford Dictionary (2016) defines social media as “Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.” This paper will explore the impact of this kind of networking on employment and the effects of…