Finding 5 others is a process... video to come later when I find one - this stuff can be over multiple posts right?
I was going to be lazy about the application for analysis and mention the Google search engine, but I'm going to be even lazier and mention something that helps me analyse the Google search engine. AVG - a free virus scanner -so again no plugs, has an application within it called Linkscanner. So when running a search, the links will have a little symbol next to them indicating the likelihood of encountering spam or pop-ups or malware embedded in the site that the link directs you to. Quite frankly it's alarming the number of top Google searches that have warnings from linkscanner, and I will only consider clicking a link that is deemed "safe" although that is a very relative term. But as I said, it is disturbing how many top 10 links will have warnings associated with them - is Google trying to infect us all?
Also last week I mentioned that many seem not to treat language itself as THE communication technology, well at least it seems the teaching staff do, so that's a relief. I suppose I must mention how I liked the organisation of the McGaughey reading categorised the different streams/schools of communication tech, although having all of them alongside each other would make for a wonderful comparison of contemporary technological developments. I must protest though; the credit given to Thomas Edison is misplaced, he was a patent holder, not an inventor. He was very good at taking credit for other's work, I'm surprised he isn't credited with inventing plagiarism.
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