Annotated Bibliography-WEB

"AppData - Facebook application leaderboards, charts, and metrics."  AppData - Facebook application leaderboards, charts, and metrics. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 July 2011. <http://www.appdata.com/>.

AppData is a statistics website for Facebook applications which including the leaderboards of application, developer, top gainer, reports of application, developer, comparison apps, and personal alerts and feeds of Facebook application information. Through this website, the user can get the newest information and statistics of Facebook which are indispensable for developing applications on Facebook, and the user can understand the trends of Facebook users’ habits and preferences. Also, AppData has a pro vision that has more detail information for each application, such as daily and historical stats applications tracking, developers’ strategy and growth, pinpoint market opportunity, and receiving all the data of tracking information. Additionally, appData got a new iOS application category now, and the feature of iOS app is the same with Facebook app which give more information for the users.  

"Activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 July 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activism>.

Wikipedia is a website that allows people to edit and add new knowledge which is bases on interlinked web pages and using simplified markup language. However, the information on wiki might not be 100% corrected or professional because they might involve subjective, and the information might not verify.  I often use wiki for basic or quick concepts and references. Another advantage of wiki is multilingual that is the most important element for me because of the language proficiency and the use of proper noun. There are many cultural differences and cognitive between different countries. Even English is the first foreign language in my country, but there are new terminologies come up at any time. Through wiki, I can have basic understanding for the “words.” For example, Activism is an important concept for my thesis, but it is hard to explain in Chinese because we don’t have a particular word in Chinese, so I couldn’t illustrate what Activism in my head when the first I heard about it. After using wiki and got the references of Activism, I started made association with it.

"台灣部落格協會." Taiwan Bloggers Assocation. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 July 2011. <http://tba.tw/>.

TBA, a blogger association, which was developed by many famous Taiwanese bloggers who are aims to welfare and prosperity for the association’s culture values which forcing on social issues researching and developing. The purpose of this association is “promoting reading and writing blogs, defending freedom of expression, and to ensure the sovereignty of Taiwan.” The digital media that TBA uses including YouTube, website, blogs, and social networking websites, like Facebook, Plurk and twitter, are the beneficial too speech up globally through the power of internet. Also, TBA becomes a shield for protecting freedom of voice of people. The website always hacked because of the censorship no matter the attacks are from local or other countries. The most interesting feature of TBA is the grievances map which using google map to points the problems and issues that Taiwanese people having, and the problems that government wants to cover, and it also warm people to pay more attention on things that are happening around. For example, there are some abandoned public facilities that cause dangers and wasting taxes, but every just ignore about the problems. Through the visual performance on google map, people can realize that how close they live with dangers and what cause problems for their daily 

My NPCs illustration- juice girl

Juice Girl~MeiMei
18 year-old.
Part time works in a juice stand in the night market

My Avatar

Actions- only use 3 images to walk

 

 Proportion-different size of hand

 

Item Layers- 7 layers for head, 8 layers for body

Reading Summation 4 – INTERNET AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACTION REPERTOIRES Opportunities and limitations by Jeroen Van Laer & Peter Van Aelst

Reading Summation 4 – INTERNET AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACTION REPERTOIRES Opportunities and limitations by Jeroen Van Laer & Peter Van Aelst

In the article, the writers point out “how the Internet has shaped and shaping the collective action repertoire of social movements pursuing social and political change.”Internet has changed the action repertoire of social movement in two ways, how to attract more people, saving time, and make the action easier in an availability usage and developing new tools for activism. However, the limitation of internet is “digital divide.” Internet cannot build a steady connection between activists because is very easy and quickly to lost interest. But in global scale, internet becomes more and more important status in political and economical power. Also, more and more activists and groups start engage in social changes and politic movements through internet. The advantage of using internet for activism is the power of mobilization and participation of the protest, such as national street demonstrations; for example, the uprising of the Zapatista movement. Internet like the linkage joint of activists, groups and organizations of social movement can communicate to each other more easily online, in cyberspace, and in the streets. Not only use traditional form for protesting in this information age, but also there are some new ways through internet, such as virtual activities, online petitions, virtual sit-ins, email bombings, and website hacking.

So, the typology two related dimensions of internet for activism are “real” actions which are supported and facilitated by internet and “virtual” actions that are internet-based (Gurak & Logie 2003; Vegh 2003). Here the authors categorized the dimension distinguishes between “internet-supported” and “internet-based” form of collective and the difficulty for “High threshold” and “low threshold.”  

Quadrant 1: The traditional form for protest, the low threshold and originality are the reasons for successful, and they can be better through internet.

Quadrant 2: Legally and practically, it involves transnational demonstrations, meeting, and obstructive action forms, and the practical barriers can be recede by internet.

Quadrant 3: mobilization and reduction of participation are the advantages of the types of protest.

Quadrant 4:  Particularly mention about protest websites, alternative media sites, culture jamming and hackivism, and how they haymaker the recent world.

            In the end, the authors also point out the weakness of internet for activism.

·         Still a digital divide: based on different developing-level countries, not everyone are using computer or internet, and not everyone the skills for using digital media.

·          Internet makes it not easy enough: because out computer IP are control by the governments that might cause some problems and the difficulty to assemble people who live in different area and countries to a real place. Also, the internet might banned by the governments, such as China.

·         Internet makes it too easy: forge sign and personal information for petition, or irresponsible adhesion might cause an unreliable reputation for protests.

·         The new media lost their newness: in recent day, internet as a protest tool is easier to guard than in the past because the opponents are more familiar with this expedient.

·          The internet only creates weak ties: trust among activist is probably a necessary prerequisite (Gerbaudo 2009). However, the internet is hard to create a strong relationship and sustainable network of activists.

Bibliography

Gerbaudo, P. (2009) ‘Get off the keyboard!” internet usage, and the continuing need

for sociability and trust in the context of anarcho-autonomous activism’, paper

presented at the 5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 10–12

September 2009.

Gurak, L. J. & Logie, J. (2003) ‘Internet protest, from text to web’, in Cyberactivism.

Online Activism in Theory and Practice, eds M. McCaughey & M. D. Ayers,

Routledge, New York, London, pp. 25–46.

Vegh, S. (2003) ‘Classifying forms of online activism: the case of cyberprotests

against the World Bank’, in Cyberactivism. Online Activism in Theory and Practice,

eds M. McCaughey & M. D. Ayers, Routledge, New York, London,

pp. 71–95.

Booth example of my thesis

A example of the stands in my thesis project..

It took me about 3 hours to draw it.....