My digital Story

http://prezi.com/ucdn4jksg1_u/cyberbullying/#

My digital storyboard

http://marinucci.edu.glogster.com/digital-story-3269

Assignment 11/26

1.) Fritz, S. "Dear America: Eric Snowden Is No Hero - Let Your Voice Be Heard." Let Your Voice Be Heard. N.p., 14 June 2013. Web. 23 Nov. 2013.

http://www.lyvbh.com/2013/06/14/dear-america-pick-poison/
Extras
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/poplar-bluff-mo/TRDTP7MMANKG82HT0

http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index.ssf/2013/06/poll_is_eric_snowden_a_whistle.html

Weblog 11/22

The reason that I chose to right about this article that I have found is because I realized I had pretty much bashed social media in almost all of my blog posts.  This article is about the Cleveland Bike Composting project which asks people online to participate in bike-based compost removal service for Cleveland residents so that they can create a cleaner, greener environment for the vicinity of Cleveland.  If this project actually works out then there will be volunteers that will have to take the waste from the site and then transfer it to someone’s compost in their garden.  This will not only benefit the person getting rid of the waste but it will also benefit the person that is receiving the waste because when you have a garden, superior topsoil is key to having a great garden.  My family always has a designated area in their yard for a compost pile for their gardens,  but because my family is so big, this service really wouldn’t apply to me since we have been recycling our compost for a long time.  I think that the way that this article is presented is great.  I think that it’s author doesn’t ask too much from the reader and that it all comes down to doing something that you love, like riding your bike, and helping out the earth in so many different ways, including riding a bike instead of using gas with a car, recycling the waste through transporting the waste to someone’s garden, and saving the use of gas by promoting locally grown vegetables.  I think that this article is a great way to use the internet.

http://www.good.is/posts/help-start-a-bike-power-community-composting-project?utm_campaign=goodtweet&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Weblog 11/15

group ds

http://prezi.com/f4hxsll72cy_/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Digital Story Proposal

AJ Marinucci

Dr. Shutkin

First Year Seminar

7 November 2013

My Digital Story Proposal

            The theme for my digital story will be all of the affects of cyber bullying and what it takes to stop it.  This theme relates to our digital media and social justice class because it brings together what is right and wrong and the broad universe of social media.  This really interested me because of a recent story about Jonathan Martin, a Miami Dolphins football player.  The story seems to be on my television, phone, and computer as soon as I turn one of them on.  I think that this isn’t exactly related to my topic but it is definitely somewhat related because of the fact that bullying in itself can and probably has affected someone in some kind of way.  In the particular story that I mentioned, Jonathan Martin is a 6 foot 6, 310 pounds, full grown, gargantuan of a man.  He has recently been bullied and even threatened by one of his teammates Ritchie Incognito. Reporter James Walker from Espn reported that Incognito left a voicemail for Jonathan Martin saying,” "Hey, wassup, you half n----- piece of s---. I saw you on Twitter, you been training 10 weeks. [I want to] s--- in your f---ing mouth. [I'm going to] slap your f---ing mouth. [I'm going to] slap your real mother across the face [laughter]. F--- you, you're still a rookie. I'll kill you."  This is uncalled for and a main reason for me to do a story on this subject of bullying.  This just further proves that anyone can be bullied no matter how big, strong, famous, or rich they are.  I am going to try to accomplish resources of different scenarios of instances where cyber bullying is relevant and bring my life into it while trying to put my perspective on both the real life situation that I have witnessed or have been in and the articles that I am going to research.

            For my digital story I originally thought that I was going to create my digital story by using a website.  I thought that creating a website would most likely relate to me for some reason.  I didn’t really know a reason at the time, but I just figured I would end up doing a website of some kind.  I really had not researched what else I could do since I was kind of set on doing a website.  However, after doing some research and after seeing other presentations on prezi.com, I thought that this could be a really interesting way to present my topic in the future.  I then looked up some average reviews of the website and found that there are some downsides, but the overall consensus was positive.  Ed Mendelson of Pcmag.com says that,” Prezi's presentations give you tools that no other presentation software can match…an animated visual feast unlike the usual boring set of bullet points.”  When I read this I kind of ignored anything else and took what he said and thought that making a Prezi would be a great way for me to present my digital story.  Mendelson’s overall review was 4.5 out of 5.  I thought that this review alone could change my mind just doing a website, but I looked a few different reviews after that.  After finding mostly positive reviews for Prezi.com, I really didn’t even put creating a website into consideration.  I will try to use the resources from the library that are given on the John Carroll website.  I have used most of the databases that are available previously for some other projects that I have done for my high school.  If for some reason I cannot find what I am looking for I will go to the library reference desk and ask for help. 

           

 

Works Cited

 

 Mandelson, Ed. "Prezi.com." PCMAG. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.

Services, ESPN.com News. "Slurs in Incognito's messages." ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures, 05 Nov. 2013. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.

Weblog 11/8

AJ Marinucci

Dr. Shutkin

First Year Seminar

7 November 2013

My Digital Story Proposal

            The theme for my digital story will be all of the affects of cyber bullying and what it takes to stop it.  This theme relates to our digital media and social justice class because it brings together what is right and wrong and the broad universe of social media.  This really interested me because of a recent story about Jonathan Martin, a Miami Dolphins football player.  The story seems to be on my television, phone, and computer as soon as I turn one of them on.  I think that this isn’t exactly related to my topic but it is definitely somewhat related because of the fact that bullying in itself can and probably has affected someone in some kind of way.  In the particular story that I mentioned, Jonathan Martin is a 6 foot 6, 310 pounds, full grown, gargantuan of a man.  He has recently been bullied and even threatened by one of his teammates Ritchie Incognito. Reporter James Walker from Espn reported that Incognito left a voicemail for Jonathan Martin saying,” "Hey, wassup, you half n----- piece of s---. I saw you on Twitter, you been training 10 weeks. [I want to] s--- in your f---ing mouth. [I'm going to] slap your f---ing mouth. [I'm going to] slap your real mother across the face [laughter]. F--- you, you're still a rookie. I'll kill you."  This is uncalled for and a main reason for me to do a story on this subject of bullying.  This just further proves that anyone can be bullied no matter how big, strong, famous, or rich they are.  I am going to try to accomplish resources of different scenarios of instances where cyber bullying is relevant and bring my life into it while trying to put my perspective on both the real life situation that I have witnessed or have been in and the articles that I am going to research.

            For my digital story I originally thought that I was going to create my digital story by using a website.  I thought that creating a website would most likely relate to me for some reason.  I didn’t really know a reason at the time, but I just figured I would end up doing a website of some kind.  I really had not researched what else I could do since I was kind of set on doing a website.  However, after doing some research and after seeing other presentations on prezi.com, I thought that this could be a really interesting way to present my topic in the future.  I then looked up some average reviews of the website and found that there are some downsides, but the overall consensus was positive.  Ed Mendelson of Pcmag.com says that,” Prezi's presentations give you tools that no other presentation software can match…an animated visual feast unlike the usual boring set of bullet points.”  When I read this I kind of ignored anything else and took what he said and thought that making a Prezi would be a great way for me to present my digital story.  Mendelson’s overall review was 4.5 out of 5.  I thought that this review alone could change my mind just doing a website, but I looked a few different reviews after that.  After finding mostly positive reviews for Prezi.com, I really didn’t even put creating a website into consideration.  I will try to use the resources from the library that are given on the John Carroll website.  I have used most of the databases that are available previously for some other projects that I have done for my high school.  If for some reason I cannot find what I am looking for I will go to the library reference desk and ask for help. 

           

 

Works Cited

 

 Mandelson, Ed. "Prezi.com." PCMAG. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.

Services, ESPN.com News. "Slurs in Incognito's messages." ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures, 05 Nov. 2013. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.

Discussion questions 11/6

1.)    My opinionated answer to the question in the article is that video games are good for people to interact within a story and the ability to make choices that will make the story evolve.  Tom Bissell talks about having an “extra life” in his book Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter.  Why do you play video games? (why don’t you play video games?)

2.)    Why do you think that people that play video games ignore the systemic social issues in the games that they play?

3.)     Of the video games that we played in the last class, did you notice anything different or similar about those games compared to other more popular games that you have played before?

Discussion questions 11/6

1.)    My opinionated answer to the question in the article is that video games are good for people to interact within a story and the ability to make choices that will make the story evolve.  Tom Bissell talks about having an “extra life” in his book Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter.  Why do you play video games? (why don’t you play video games?)

2.)    Why do you think that people that play video games ignore the systemic social issues in the games that they play?

3.)     Of the video games that we played in the last class, did you notice anything different or similar about those games compared to other more popular games that you have played before?

Weblog 11/1

Our social action project accurately defines the affects of internet privacy issues.  We warn the reader of how many things that could happen to anyone at any time.  The reason for this happening can rely on both the users and the companies that own these sites.  There are kind of two sides for our issue.  On one hand you can blame the users, saying that they should really think about what they post or put on face book.  Whatever they put on the internet is there forever.  The companies could also say that there are in fact privacy settings, but most users just choose not to use them.  On the other hand, the users could fight back and say that there is no reason that our personal information such as our social security numbers, credit card numbers, addresses, etc.  I know for a fact that sometimes there is no other choice than to put your social security number online for a job application or even getting into college.  It seems like we are getting more and more involved with the internet with everything we do and that can be a good thing, but I believe that some things should not just be thrown out there.  I believe that if someone is fired because they post a picture of themselves doing something inappropriate, their boss should decide whether or not they want them in their company.  With that being said, I think that there really is no excuse for someone’s identity being stolen because they had put all of their personal information online because they were forced to for a job or school.  I really think that falls on the hands of the companies.  In an article on pcworld.com, there is a list of the biggest online privacy threats.  Their list was from one to five: 1.) cookie proliferation, 2.) seizing cloud data 3.) location data betrayal 4.) data never forgets a face 5.) scanning in the name of cyber security.  My opinion of this article is that it really boils down to numbers 1 and 2.  I think that cookie proliferation seems like it’s no big deal and everyone just clicks yes or allow.  I think that this is a really big issue and it needs to be altered somehow for the better.  Seizing cloud data is definitely another issue that I really haven’t thought about a big threat to privacy. I thought that something like this would be safe.  These “surprises” only feed our social action project and prove its relevance.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2031908/the-5-biggest-online-privacy-threats-of-2013.html?page=2

Weblog 10/25

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/consumer-reports-facebook-privacy-problems-are-rise-749990

 

 

My social action project group is focusing on the problems with privacy through facebook and the overall internet in general.  This article shows a study from a pretty well known magazine Consumer reports.  It shows that almost everything that someone does on facebook can be used harmfully towards you in some way.  They can take some little piece of information that doesn’t seem important or seem like burglars or identity thieves can do anything with it, but as Consumer reports shows these small pieces of information can make or break something happening.  One example that really shocked me and kind of stood out of the rest was that if you “like” a facebook page about health conditions or treatments, an insurer can use that “like” against you.  Now I find that a completely wrong thing to do.  I think that most of the time people who like a page about health conditions or treatments, it is trying to promote a good cause like bringing awareness to breast cancer or something like that.  I would never have thought that something like this could happen.  Another interesting example that was in the article was that 4.8 million have used Facebook to say where they planned to go on a certain day.  I know that this does happen a lot.  I have seen and witnessed people do this over and over again.  I think that if you want everybody know where you are going, then you should already know the consequences for letting the world know where you are going, especially if you are alone.  This is just another reason why I do not use social media.  I think that privacy is important and if I want to tell people where I am going I can call them, without telling the whole world.

Weblog 10/18

http://www.whas11.com/home/12-examples-of-people-getting-fired-over-Facebook-101977118.html

I now found out that for my Social Action Project I will be working in my group trying to achieve awareness to the dangers and downsides of exposing to much information on facebook.  We are going to do this through book inserts in the Grasseli library.  I am glad I got picked for this group because I thought it was a good idea.  For my weblog today, I am doing an article on the same kind of topic and the article gives 12 instances that people got fired because of what they posted on facebook or some other kind of social media.  My opinion is that the people who are posting these things on social media deserve what they got.  For example, I don’t understand why in the world you would post a picture of yourself at a graffiti party with your friends passed out with swastikas and anti-Semitic remarks on their foreheads?  I think it is almost common knowledge now that your boss of future boss is looking for exact instances on their employees.  In fact a relative of mine has a job where that’s all he does is look on people’s social media and decides whether or not to hire them even before he has an interview with them.  I think that this will highly effect the workforce and I think it will be a good improvement for most companies.  I think if I were put into the position of whether or not to monitor what my employees do,  I would have to say that I would monitor their social media.  This not only makes them think what they are posting, but it creates a kind of reality to what they are really putting online that can be tracked and traced to their name forever.  I think that the fact that it is there forever is the bigger deal.

Discussion questions 10/9

1.) Do you think there will ever be a toxic-free future? Why or why not?
2.) Do you think that the SVTC and other similar organizations are good for the companies that own these chip plants? Why or why not?
3.) Is it worse to dispose e-waste in other countries or to expose ourselves to toxins here in our country through the chip factories?

Weblog 10/4 Ewaste video

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/video/video_index.html

This video shows the crazy amounts of terrible things happen to our old electronics that most of us in the United States and other prominent countries don’t even know about.  We send our “junk” over to these countries so that other people risk their lives every day for terrible wages by burning these electronics so they can gather the metals and actually make some money.  The video is so sad especially the part where the man who is burning the material says that it makes him sick and he knows that but if he doesn’t he won’t make any money so he continues to ruin his health.  What I think is one of the most important things for people to understand, especially for those who will say that,” it’ll only hurt them and not us” is that it is hurting us.  It is ruining the whole world and our planet.  It burns the atmosphere and its killing the trees, the animals, the plants, and it is effecting how we breathe. 

The part where I don’t understand is how China’s leaders allow all of this hazardous waste in their country.  I know for a fact that the United States would never allow something like this to happen here.  I can’t believe that there are people in China simply ignoring this because of money. 

With everything being said, the economic point of view is that it is nearly impossible to take care of this ecologically friendly.  It would cost so much that it is not worth it.  I think that the only way that e waste can be handled correctly is through some kind of volunteer work and donations to develop factories like Pucketts in India that was talked about in the video.

Comic

Weblog 9/27- http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/technology-is-not-the-answer/73065/

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/technology-is-not-the-answer/73065/

What I got out of this article is that technology can be used to make certain things that are possible without technology better, and things that aren’t possible without technology that is still very difficult to make happen.  In other words I think what the writer was trying to say is that technology is great and has its purposes, but it cannot solve every problem in the universe.  There is a graph in this article that I thought was quite interesting.  It shows that with the increase in technology, the increase in poverty rates also increase.  What I got out of this graph is that even when we bring technology into areas of poverty, the rate of poverty does not change the rate of poverty in the United States.  I would have thought, prior to looking at this graph that the poverty rate would have dropped with the advancements of technology.  I am extremely surprised that this is the case not only from a technology standpoint, but just because I thought we would have a better idea of this problem of poverty.  Poverty is a different kind of problem than say something like robberies in the United States or a network not being on a certain cable provider.  What I mean is robberies are definitely important and something to look to stop, but I think that poverty affects the whole world.  I think that poverty is a very important issue.  However, I do think that technology will have some kind of role in the rate of poverty in the future.

 

9/20 Weblog-http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/06/the-twitter-effect-how-social-media-changes-the-news-narrative179/

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/06/the-twitter-effect-how-social-media-changes-the-news-narrative179/

The second part of this article really interested me the most because I sort of have a connection to this subject.  The same reason that this article writes about is why I do not have any sort of social media.  I think that social media can be cool, interesting, and useful, but I believe that it does more harm than good especially when things can be so distorted and become a totally different story.  I remember when Ryan Dunn had died and I do believe that twitter and social media had spread the word incorrectly, and this lead to some very cruel and offensive things that were said by famous people.  Roger Ebert, a famous film critic even tweeted," Friends don’t let Jackasses drink and drive,”.  Obviously, it was supposed to be a joke, but I guarantee that this guy would never say this to one of Ryan Dunn’s friends or family members face.  So I think that twitter and all other social media enables us to act differently than we would in real life and I think it can will continue to lead to people saying things that they definitely regret putting out there for the whole world to see forever.  I think that most of the time people do this without thinking and it can be a true mistake, but I also think that other people do put things out there simply because they can and I don’t think that it is right to take advantage of the power of the internet and social media.  Because that I think I will become a different person in the social media world I will try not to get involved as much as I can. 

                                                                                R.I.P. Ryan Dunn

Group Six Questions

1.)  Do you think that democracy is essential here in the United States?  Why or why not?

2.)  Why do you think that democracy has been altered or changed over time?

3.)  How or what would happen to make democracy "look" or seem bad?

Weblog A-1 E-Waste from greenpeace

I'm doing my assignment on the e-waste article/ video because I am familiar with the topic and wasn't really surprised by what goes on with this stuff.  I am mostly not surprised because I have already done projects, readings, essays, and everything else about e-waste and how bad it really is.  What I don’t understand is how this happens when there are blatant facts that this will not only affect the people doing this and their life longevity, it will also harm people miles down the road.  From what I have read in previous classes, the chemicals and toxins that are released can condensate and go into the ground through rain showers miles away, meanwhile destroying the atmosphere and contaminating the water cycle everywhere.  With all of that being said, there is really no way other than to do this that would make sense economically.  I think that the best option is to take all of the “recycled” electronic items and to send them to “actual” recycle plants where people are paid to create new devices, hard drives, cameras, cell phone parts, and whatever else and then take them to a Best Buy or HHgregg and sell those as refurbished items.   I believe with today’s technology this is possible, (not really sure), but even if it was possible, it would never happen because it is simply easier to send it off to some place where children are exposing themselves to poisonous gases, burning our mess to make $1.50 a day.  I still don’t like to believe that this goes on, but the more I think that, the more I see it in articles.  

 

 

 

 

 

http://e-wasteonline.com/

Questions

1.)  Anthony Joseph Marinucci, Euclid, Ohio, amarinucci17@jcu.edu
2.) AJ
5.) I think we all need to be respectful.
6.) The car, it is the best source of transportation and has been around very long and I don't
7.) Computer, Toaster, Fridge, Air conditioning
8.) I really am not experienced with any of the following choices( I don't even have any social media), so I guess that I would be a 3??? in that category
9.) Why did you choose this class over the other ones and I think it would be interesting to know where everyone is from?

I love Football

 I played varsity football for lake catholic high school for 2 years

I spent a lot of saturdays watching UFC fights at the harry buffalo

 (my favorite fighter is Chuck Liddell)

I went to the Dave Matthews Band Concert this summer with my friends