Tutorial 1

I just like to start by saying, hello to all my fellow uni students! How's life on Campus been treating you? I have to admit, being in my first year, I'm a little bit scared. But hey we are all here to have fun... and also study hard ofcourse.

Well let's get down to it. Three words, New communication Technology... yes those three very words, which seem so simple, i have found aren't so simple to me anymore. I was like yeah ok it's going to be all about the new technology which helps us communicate with the rest of the world (mobile phones, internet etc.) Blah Blah Easy! But i have now come to realize there is definetly more to this subject (ofcourese there always is!).

In the first lecture i listened in content, hoping i could wrap my head around the subject. I learned that we have so many new technologies, some that i havn't even heard of before... like virtual agents? I also dicovered that the subject has huge backround in the way in which the world functions. The way in which old technology has evolved to new technology is pretty amazing and at times... well most of the time you can't keep up! Do any of you remember your parents old mobiles? they were like the size of a brick! haha. You wouldn't be caught dead with that today. When i bought my mobile it was pretty expensive and know its advertising for less than half that price! Don't you hate that!

After the lecture i wasn't yet feeling the subject so i went home to do the readings. Are you serious... four chapters!? that's huge... well it was to me anyway. So i sat myself down and got straight into it. So confusing! there were so many words which i never new existed like, hegemon, dialectic, commodification... and the list goes on. So by the end of this subject i hope i can 'think dialectically'. But other than those confusing words i did find that technology has a huge impact on our economy and culture. I began to learn about communication and narrowcasting and also about how communication teachnology was derived. Then the pages became blank... i was reading but it's like the words weren't there anymore. So i stopped before my brain exploded.

But all in all i can't say i am a total whizz at the subject now... far from it actually (i'm sure many of us are in the same boat). But then again it's only the second week and uni is a whole new world for me... so oh well i will get it soon enough.