Final Assignment


     My expectations at the beginning of the semester, I thought we were just going to listen the class and do exams, but I'm glad it wasn't like that because I believe that introducing yourself to people, working with programs I didn't use before, and doing presentations really helped me to overcome my stage fright and to gain more experience doing presentations. Since is about media literacy I believe if they  have more speakers that can talk about interesting and informative things, also put partners to work in class instead of groups.

    It would be good if students don't have to work in groups too much because sometimes some people work more than other or some people are more responsible than other and sometimes is a little bit complicated to get together, I believe if you do things by yourself is easy and you can get the work done faster. The most positive aspect of the course is that help you to know more about social media, I believe is good because sometimes your not aware of the rules and facts you have to know about social media. I don't think this course has a negative aspect. Overall I really enjoyed going to this class, at first I was scared because I had to talk in front of the class but because we practice a few times, I was no longer nervous or shy.

Social Media Consultation Assignment    

Coca-Cola was founded in 1886 when the curiosity of an Atlanta pharmacist, Dr. John S. Pemberton, led him to create a distinctive tasting soft drink that could be sold at soda fountains. Coca-Cola has the strategy to keep millions of customer with the promotion called “Open Happiness" will be released worldwide. The central message of "Open Happiness" is an invitation to billions around the world to pause, refresh yourself with a Coke, and keep enjoying one of the simple pleasures of life. The "Open Happiness" was seen in the shops, on billboards, television commercials and print advertising along with digital and music components. They use social media sites like Facebook, twitter, instagram, and YouTube. On twitter they have about 2,737,241 followers. They frequently post new promotion and limit time like “open happiness” is relevant for their customers. Normally they put random thing on twitter in order to promote their product. For example, sometime they make advertising with picture and short message of Coca-Cola. Also they use celebrities to promote Coca-Cola and make more famous around the world. They do this certain thing to attract their customer to their company as well.

The brand coca-cola is a soft drink which is the world’s largest beverage company. On pinterest coca-cola has pictures that show their brand, the shape of the bottle, associate polar bears drinking coke, and shows that coke can bring families together. Red is the dominant color when you think of coca-cola. Pinterest has many different boards with different themes like “Keep Discovering," “Be Together," and “Be Active." On youtube, they have many advertisements that have celebrities endorsing the product like Penelope Cruz, and athletes like LeBron James. These commercials also have the audience engaged in what the main message is, which is that if celebrities are cool enough to drink coke, I must be to.  Social media is important to the coca-cola business because it helps to inspire moments of optimism and happiness and build their brand.

Coca Cola it’s one of the most recognisable brands in the world. It’s main page on facebook  has attracted 63 million fans. This has helped them for example to publicise its Olympics and Euro 2012 ad campaigns. Most of the updates this year have been to promote Coke’s polar bear adverts as well as the company’s charity work to help the Arctic.  I believe thanks to they  got a lot of fans they can promote their product . They have created new options as apps , one of them is called ‘When will happiness strike’ that is basically a video reel of its ads and another called ‘Ahh Giver’ that allows users to send a personalised message and a free Coke to a Facebook friend. One of their other strategies,  Coca-Cola also has Facebook pages for its other products such as Diet coke and Coke zero, however these have far fewer fans. But Interestingly, the Diet Coke page has attracted two million ‘likes’ by posting daily updates of fashion content and pictures of the Diet Coke man. The pictures that they they post is about good looking men, showing their muscle. I believe they do that because they want to have more fans for the Diet Coke, and the audience that they are persuading are women. However the Coke Zero page has 4.2 million fans despite the fact that it is generally updated only a few times per month. I believe that is because coke zero’s flavor is better than Diet coke or maybe because nobody likes Diet Coke as much as the others cokes so they don't even have to be updating the page for Coke Zero, and of course they do update daily the Coca Cola page because is where they got more fans and is their main product.

The Coca Cola company through the years of their existence have learn to adapt to the usage of different social medias. When it comes for big companies such as coca cola, instagram is a good source for them to promote their coca cola drinks, and encourage their followers to continues buying their product. As of today, coca cola has 377,771 followers which is a huge amount of followers. Going through coca cola’s instagram pictures for each holiday of the year they come up with the most creative picture one could ever imagine. For example, the one picture that got most of my attention was the one saying, “ GOT AN IDEA FOR A THANKSGIVING DAY BALLOON?” with the central object being a coca cola coke made out of balloons of the exact corresponding colors. Finally, Coca cola created a video of unwrapping a coke destined to be a pre-holiday video making a visual connection to Christmas.

                                                           


                                                   Group Progress Report #2

Our group is composed of four members and we divided our role into four parts. We started working on our presentation and so far, Sajni contributed the role of showing the process of how easy it is to illegally download movies by doing the research using iseek.com. Ana has done research using google scholar on how movies get leaked online first. Lissania has the work of conducting research on what is the process and consequences of illegally downloading movies. Joselin has the job of doing research on how movies are easily copyrighted by using www.mass.gov.

We decided to use Google Docs PowerPoint in order for us to work in our presentation together even if we are not together as a group. We can see and also edit each other’s work to improve our presentation and help each other out as well. In our PowerPoint we will add pictures and try to add effects to make our presentation come alive so the audience won’t get bored and will be fascinated and learn something new. In the actual day of our presentation we hope to give out the information in the right way to the audience; leaving them with a little more of information on the topic we chose to do research on. Each member will have their own part with information assigned to them presenting it to the audience when it’s their designated turn.   

 The sources that we're using in our presentation contribute a lot on our project. Lissania has used UHD library as a source. She found interesting information. Her role is to find what is the process and consequences of illegally downloading movies. So far she has found that Recently, a string of lawsuits have been launched against individual downloaders in a way that has never been seen before. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) had been suing individual illegal downloaders of movies, forcing them to pay a settlement for each individual song or movie downloaded (usually $750 each), with the RIAA choosing the number of songs they want the accused to pay for. If the downloader wants to take the RIAA to court, he or she may end up having to pay even more for each downloaded movie. This information we believe is important because it gives to our project interesting information.

 

                                                    Social Resume

           http://l1405.weebly.com/

Privacy - Assig.#7

Privacy - Assig.#7

Articles

1. On the article of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, they having a privacy problem because they want to protect the bloggers right. One of the problems is that they want  the bloggers to have the right to stay anonymous. My thoughts on this is why the bloggers want to stay anonymous, I think if  they blogging good stuffs I don't see why they wanna be anonymous, but I guess is more than that, maybe it is because sometimes they want to have write about a political subject or something else and I understand no everybody is going to agree on what you think.
 

2. EFF's 'Secure Messaging Scorecard' Rates Digital Communication Tools. This article talks about we need to have more security and practical means of talking to each other from our phones and computers. Many companies offer "secure messaging" products ,but how can users know if these systems actually secure?. I'm totally agree it's true that we need to have privacy because anyone can be reading our text message. The companies needs to give us proof if that really works because is our privacy , our right.

3. This article talks about Verizon injecting Perma-cookies to track mobile customers, bypassing privacy controls.Verizon Wireless has been silently modifying its users' web traffic on its network to inject a cookie-like tracker. This tracker, included in an HTTP header called X-UIDH, is sent to every. It allows third-party advertisers and websites to assemble a deep, permanent profile of visitors' web browsing habits without their consent. I don't think this is right because they shouldn't care what people does in their phones, why they want to control people?. What they get by doing this ?.

Privacy

 

 

Facebook: My privacy settings on Facebook, I have it private. The options for my privacy settings are:

1. who can see my posts.
2. who can contact me.
3. who can find me in the search bar.

Instagram: On instagram I got it private, instagram doesn't have a lot of options it has the option to give permission , meaning if I want that  someone can repost a picture or comment on photos.

 

Twitter: It is so important to have your accounts on private, so that's why I got my account private. Twitter doesn't have many options it only says if you have your account public or private,

 

Google + :  The options for this social media are:

 

1. who can interact with your blog
2.  Who can send you notifications.
3. Who can comment on your public posts.
4. Who can Hangout with you.
5. Allow viewers to download my photos and videos.

    The difference between these social medias, is that Instagram and twitter doesn't have many options as Facebook and Google + . I  believe it's because most of the people don't use Instagram and twitter as much as Facebook. Instagram is an app that you can use it to upload pictures, you can't chat, and that's why I think it doesn't have a lot of options because your not in danger as you can be on Facebook and if someone is bothering you on Instagram there's the option to block. Most of the people use Facebook that's why it has more options. Some people don't use it properly , meaning that probably a maniac is stalking you , you can block him/her or simply you can put your account private and only have your close friends. Google is an app that have a lot of options because you can do a lot of things on the app you can have a email account, you can create documents, share pictures and also you can have a blog. that's why the account give you a lot of safety options in order to have secure account. In my opinion Facebook has the best privacy setting, and of course it needs to have it. I feel 100% secure because it gives me good options about my privacy . The worst I would say It's twitter because people already using it and more people are joining it but doesn't have a good privacy setting.

 

 

 



     


       Our group is composed of four members. As of now, we split the work up, and each of us have an assigned,specific role. Our project topic is centered around the idea of movies. Joselin Santos has been assigned the role of doing research on how movies are easily copyrighted. Sajni Bhakta has the role of searching how easily it is to illegally download movies. Lissania Alarcon has the work of conducting research on what is the process and consequences of illegally downloading movies. Last but not least, Ana Villasana has the role of searching up on how movies get leaked online first.

     Specific research that we will be doing is using articles and journals that relate to our topic. One article we found was about Copyright Laws for Movies, and it talks about what copyright is, what triggers copyright protection, how if a movie is produced, it gets leaked right away. It also talks about authorization, and if you want to state that your work is your own without anyone getting it, then you have to claim it’s yours. It gives a lot of information like the consequences you will face if you copyright someone else’s work and if you get caught, you can be fined with about $150,000. It also explains to us the laws, and expectations, what pirating is and what it does, and fan fiction, and stealing other people’s work is not right or fair because they worked hard to produce or make it. They also talk about how they prevent copyrighting and protect the owners work. The legal boundaries of how much work can actually be considered fair to use.

      Sources we will be anticipating to use are the UHD database web site, the library’s web site, and basically anything interesting we can find online that relates to our topic. For example, we will be using educational web sites so we can have factual information like iseek.com, google book search, and google scholar.We hope to use educational web sites because those are the sites that will give us factual information and more details we can use to put together our project.

                                   Project Gutenberg & Creative Commons

 

BOOKS

1) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26990

Format: HTML , it can be read on kindle , EPUB

2)http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27116/27116-h/27116-h.htm
Format: HTML , it can be read on kindle and as well EUPB

3) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26654/26654-h/26654-h.htm
Format:HTML, it can be read on kindle and EUPB

                              The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer

     This article is about people from china, they play this game call "World of Warcraft" . These people spend twelve hours a night, seven nights a week trying to collect coins. The people who play this games need coins that way they can sell to thousands of players. Every World of Warcraft player needs those coins, and mostly for one reason, to pay for the virtual gear to fight the monsters to earn the points to reach the next level. There are only two ways players can get as much of this virtual money as the game requires, they can spend hours collecting it or they can pay someone real money to do it for them. In my opinion because the games sometimes are too hard to reach the next level, the players choose to spend their money to buy those coins, so that's why the people from china can get some money. I don't think what they do is worthy, because they spent almost all day playing those games, and sometimes they don't even receive good money. In the other side of the coin, what they do only benefits to the American or European players, they play to give them what they need in order to finish the game, at the same time if the Chinese people don't work in the business of gold farmer,  I think nobody would be playing video games and all the game companies  by this time should be broke because no one would be buying games.

MBTI TEST


My results on the MBTI test , It says that I have a moderate preference of Introversion over Extraversion with a 33% . I'm agree with it because I'm the kind of person that likes being sometimes alone, I would say that I like being with my friends, and I consider myself friendly, but lets say I have to do a presentation, I  do get nervous . To be ready , what I do is that  I practice a lot on whatever I'm going to talk about. Also , my results shows that a slight preference of sensing over intuition ,with a 12%. I would say that every time a got take a decision I'm concerned with what is actual, present, current, and real. I notice facts and I remember details that are important to me. I like to see the practical use of things and learn best when I see how to use what I'm learning. I have preference of feeling over thinking, it depends on the case, for example when you said what I would do, if I have to fire someone. In the case I wouldn't do it, I would send someone else to do it, because I'm not the kind of person that probably by firing the person , I would be ruining his/her life. On the last result it says I have preference of judging over perceiving ,I'm in disagree because I consider myself perceiving as well. Overall I think this was good test because , it shows you , what kind of personality you have and it helps you to know , on what you could be good at depending on you're personality.

Group Members

Sajni Bhakta
Joselin Santos
Ana Villasana
Lissania Alarcon

Idea: We are going to talk about movies. How they are copyrighted and how easy it is to illegally download movies. The process by which people download the movie and the consequences that they may face. How the movie gets leaked online first.

Control System in Satellite Navigation and Communication Terminal.

On this article they explain about the satellite navigation and communication system, they design and implement a terminal control system in the integration of navigation and communication system in this paper. The control system consists of CPU controller, GPS positioning module, smart finding and alignment satellite module, transmit/receive baseband, RF module, voice module and other functional modules, which has navigation and communication function.

Applied Mechanics & Materials; 2014, Issue 513-517, p2888-2892, 5p

Cable Television and Advertising: An Assessment.

This paper discusses some of the more pertinent issues of the cable-advertising industry relationship. It traces the past developments of cable's structure and relationship to advertising and offers some current viewpoints concerning this interesting relationship. 

Journal of Advertising. Fall78, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p4-8. 5p.

What Happened to Video Game Piracy?

This article is about an author discussing video game piracy, focusing on the assertion that the video game industry has survived despite online piracy due to various factors as of 2014. 

Communications of the ACM. May2014, Vol. 57 Issue 5, p33-34. 2p.

THE BUSINESS OF SELLING MOVIES.

The article presents information about the factors that lead to the success of a motion picture and discussed the marketing film and information about the costs . Also shows that the most successful movies are listed in a chart with information about their production and marketing costs, and it is suggested that marketing is the largest factor in a movie's success.

Strategic Finance. Mar2008, Vol. 89 Issue 9, p35-41. 6p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Illustration, 2 Charts.

The relationship between exercise intensity and preferred music intensity.

This article is about the relationship between music and exercise has revealed that music has a beneficial effect, to demonstrate this they use females and males.

Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, Vol 3(3), Aug, 2014. pp. 191-202