Digital Negative

According to the history of cameras, the first camera ever developed was called camera obscura later developed into daguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film, and digital cameras. An Arab person named Ibn al-Haytham was the first ever person who created the camera. He published his Book of Optics in 1021 AD. He produced the first pinhole camera after observing how light travelled through a window shutter. He realized that smaller holes would create sharper images. He is also credited with…

term free labour presents commonly in the digital era. In Terranova’s (2004, p73) idea, it is an essential source of value in advanced capitalist societies which is not acknowledged yet. After Web2.0 gradually took the place of Web1.0, numerous digital industries were actively seeking and absorbing user-generated contents to satisfy their commercial needs which mainly contributed by free labourers. The collaboration between unpaid digital labour and digital industries further discovers new…

Control can be described as being able to manipulate and decide what happens on the screen of your digital device. On the other hand, flow is said to be getting the right feeling between tasks that are complicated to solve and those that are just uninteresting to engage with. (Kerr, Kücklich, & Brereton, 2006) Narrative is also an important part in new…

Today, more youths are involved in gangs, murders, and assaults than history has shown. So, if these children are capable of committing adult crimes, shouldn’t they face adult consequences? It seems that the severity of juvenile crime has risen so much, that it is hard to distinct it from adult crimes. On the other hand, most adult offenders we find today, who commit murder or assault are not first time offenders. The unfortunate thing is that a survey given by the Pretrial Services Resource…

Technology Technology for me is a major weakness. The system crashing or technology malfunctions would have me going crazy, especially because of my personal information. If the system crash eBay as well as the sellers can lose a lot of profit. Therefore, the company needs to have a planB to continue selling and making money as soon as possible. Something like a generator if the lights goes off. System crashing or hacking will allow for many illegal activities on the site affecting…

Self-awareness is necessary for any individual working in the field of mental health. What we are motived by and how we plan to get there become the driving force behind our education. The traits and skill we possess can become either assets or liabilities if not diligently cared for. Receiving feedback is a necessary step towards growth that can be both painful and beneficial. Then there are the defense mechanisms we use to protect ourselves when receiving feedback that we must be aware of.…

from negative feedback. I try not to take it as a personal attack, and instead try to change my behavior so that I can become a better person. When I get feedback that is about my procrastinating, I try to improve and make it better. When I get neutral feedback I usually just remember it, but don’t necessarily do anything with it. I believe that most people would react to feed back in similar ways that I do. I think that most react positively to positive feedback and proactively to negative…

contemporary buzz (Tully). JCPenney has used this genius tactic during many sporting events through the years. Their strategy is very bold and daring, they tweet and post using garbled language as if they were impaired. This generated a lot of positive and negative feedback because people wondered if the account handler was actually intoxicated. Because it was during a big sporting event, many people would be using social media. However it would later be revealed that they were using gloves to…

1. How many of these activities/actions occur frequently in that workplace? My previous workplace was a grocery store, Fry’s Food Stores, and I held multiple positions there. I began as a cashier, moved to fuel clerk, and lastly I was a bookkeeper, the reason I mention this is because I was able to observe that different feedback and performance assessments were provided. I found that about five activities/actions from the Developing Others Check List were used by the leaders at my grocery…

One theory that I have developed by participating in and observing my everyday family life is that good communication equals a healthy harmonic relationship. My family always demonstrated good communication amongst one another. Whenever we have a disagreement about something, we talk about it with another. We are a very close knit family and we all have tight relationship with each other. The concept of this theory is if you have good communication between family members, then you will have a…