An extension of the mind: Week 3

Task 1

Familiarise yourself with the data bases available through Griffith University's databases and find the answers to the questions below.

1) Stephen Stockwell's first academic journal was "The Brisbane Model - Considering A Unike Experiment", in 1995. Found via the Griffith Library search database.

Source:
Stockwell, S. 1995."The Brisbane Model - Considering A Unike Experiment", Urban Policy and Research.¨Volume 13, Issue nr 2, Page 89 - 96.
Viewed 11 August 2011.

2) Governor Slugwell appeared in "Flaming Carrot Comic", in issue 7, 10 and 11. Found via the trial databases at Griffith Library, "Underground and Independent Comics, Comix and griphic novels".

Source:
Burden , B, 1985 "When The Shoes Arn't Worth Shining", "Flaming Carrot Comic" no.7. Page 3-31, Renegrade Press.
Viewed 11 Aug 2011.

3) The latest research on medical thinking on the dangers of mobile phones is called "Long-Term Mobile Phone Use and the Risk of Vestibular Schwannoma: A Danish Notionwide Cohort Study". Found via the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Source:
Schüz, j., Steding-Jessen, M., Hansen, S., Stangerup, E., Cayé-Thomasen, P., Poulsen, A. H., Olsen, J. H. and Johansen, C., 2011, "Long-Term Mobile Phone Use and the Risk of Vestibular Schwannoma: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study", The American Journal of Epidemiology, viewed on 24 August 2011, <http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/06/28/aje.kwr112.full.pdf+html>

4) In Blade runner, what is Leon's reaction when Holden asks him about his mother? Quote the 1982 draft script and provide a full reference (check the trial databases).

"Holden: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother.
Leon: My mother?
Holden: Yeah.
Leon: Let me tell you about my mother.
[Leon shoots Holden with a gun he had pulled out under the table]"

Source: Hampton, F., Peoples, D. W., Roland, K., 1982, Blade Runner, Draft script, electronic edition by Alexander Street Press L.L.C., 2007.

5) What does Paul Soukup say Walter Ong saw as the main paradox in 20Th century communication? Cite your source

Paul Soukup said that “Media Ecology” was 20Th Century communication and ”the new philosophical attention to openness appears not unrelated to the opening of previously isolated human groups to one another fostered by electronic communications media, telephone, radio and ultimately television”.

Source:
Soukup, P. A., 2009, ‘Contexts of Faith: The Religious Foundation of Walter Ong’s Literacy and Orality, Journal of Media and Religion, Vol 5. No. 3 pp. 175 – 188

Task 2

BBS - The Bulletin Board Systems
In 1978 Rudy Suess and Ward Christensen launched the first computerized and public Bulletin Board system. The system enabled users to interact through online messaging and the platform’s popularity grew rapidly into the 80’s. The general users were largely consisting of computer enthusiasts, this because of cost, complexity and limitedness. The information that was shared on the platform was consequently, mostly containing technical postings, software downloads and primitive online games, shared through E-mail systems, libraries and forums that people could chat on. However, when the computer prices fell in the mid 80’s, the Bulletin Board System became more common to the general society (Sulski, J., 1990).

Along with the evolution of new technology, the BBS system faded to the back and gave way for the new and exciting World Wide Web. Although it faded, it didn’t disappear entirely. In Taiwan, Bulletin Board System’s are still popular with the young generation as a communication platform (Gilbertson, S., 2010).