2014年9月15日 星期一
2014年9月14日 星期日
Morden Times, Then, Now
we saw a short clip of the movie in the lecture, and it was a movie in 1936, almost 80 years to 2014.
In the clip that I watched, Charlie worked as an industrial worker to produce some iron and steel. In that industry, the boss is the big brother, he has the say to ask their employee work faster, to speed up the assembly line. He even set lots of cameras to monitor their workers to make sure no one is being lazy.
To the workers, they are ask to specialize to work at one particular task, from dawn to dust. It is dull and boring to the workers. And Charlie is the man who screws nuts onto pieces of machinery.
At the very beginning, Charlie is able to keep his work in a comfortable way, however, the boss later asked to speed up the assembly line, Charlie hardly keeps up the speed of the track. And later when Charlie wanted to take a short break in the washroom, suddenly there's a screen and the face of the boss is appeared, and told Charlie go back to work NOW. We can see that Charlie was under a nervous, tried situation in the so-called modern time. Last but now least, the "feeding machine" turns Charlie CRAZY! He eventually cannot fed up with the boss, the working situation and ruin all the machine and hit people there.
And I think the movie is reflecting the nowadays situation. There are many similarity between Charlie's experience with new technology and ours now.
In a very large degree that people are controlled by machine/technology nowadays. In the movie, Charlie was seized by the production line. These days, we are controlled by our computers and smart phones, we are depending on the technology and somehow we forget our "basic skills". For example, we forget how to read a map because Google Map has been directing our way, we feel nervous and uneasy when our cell phones run out of battery. In this sense, technology is controlling our lives.
Besides, CCTV is everywhere. Charlie got monitored by the boss through the camera, and these days CCTVs are everywhere not only in your working space, but also in the Internet. The government may check your email content, your web-history without your acknowledgement. Worse more, every single phones are with a camera, everyone is the town may be the boss to monitor your behavior, once you are being abnormal, then we can see you on Youtube!
In the clip that I watched, Charlie worked as an industrial worker to produce some iron and steel. In that industry, the boss is the big brother, he has the say to ask their employee work faster, to speed up the assembly line. He even set lots of cameras to monitor their workers to make sure no one is being lazy.
To the workers, they are ask to specialize to work at one particular task, from dawn to dust. It is dull and boring to the workers. And Charlie is the man who screws nuts onto pieces of machinery.
At the very beginning, Charlie is able to keep his work in a comfortable way, however, the boss later asked to speed up the assembly line, Charlie hardly keeps up the speed of the track. And later when Charlie wanted to take a short break in the washroom, suddenly there's a screen and the face of the boss is appeared, and told Charlie go back to work NOW. We can see that Charlie was under a nervous, tried situation in the so-called modern time. Last but now least, the "feeding machine" turns Charlie CRAZY! He eventually cannot fed up with the boss, the working situation and ruin all the machine and hit people there.
And I think the movie is reflecting the nowadays situation. There are many similarity between Charlie's experience with new technology and ours now.
In a very large degree that people are controlled by machine/technology nowadays. In the movie, Charlie was seized by the production line. These days, we are controlled by our computers and smart phones, we are depending on the technology and somehow we forget our "basic skills". For example, we forget how to read a map because Google Map has been directing our way, we feel nervous and uneasy when our cell phones run out of battery. In this sense, technology is controlling our lives.
Besides, CCTV is everywhere. Charlie got monitored by the boss through the camera, and these days CCTVs are everywhere not only in your working space, but also in the Internet. The government may check your email content, your web-history without your acknowledgement. Worse more, every single phones are with a camera, everyone is the town may be the boss to monitor your behavior, once you are being abnormal, then we can see you on Youtube!
Digital media in my life
In this course, I would like to know more about how the digital media affecting human life in the view of visual culture. Besides, this is my first time taking a visual culture course, wish I could get some theories and norms about Arts so as the Digital Media.
In my life, Internet is a must. Without Internet, I cannot live comfortably and confidently in the normal basis. Lets say, Whatsapp, Youtube, Gmail such applications are all linked with an Internet, without it, they are almost nothing.
Therefore, Internet expend the ways that people/ I to communicate, to learn, to leisure. These are all benefit directly and affecting my daily basis.
One of the typical example is that nowadays when we go to search for some information for our assignments, we go straight to the Google Search, the Wikipedia, and seldom look for them in the library and newspaper because it is more convenient and efficient.
On the other hand, we are over depending on the digital media and somehow we cannot live without them. We will rather go to the search engine even though the library give you more concrete information, thus we may trust the information that are incorrect and not concrete in the virtual world.
These are some feelings about this course and the pros and cons of digital
media
In my life, Internet is a must. Without Internet, I cannot live comfortably and confidently in the normal basis. Lets say, Whatsapp, Youtube, Gmail such applications are all linked with an Internet, without it, they are almost nothing.
Therefore, Internet expend the ways that people/ I to communicate, to learn, to leisure. These are all benefit directly and affecting my daily basis.
One of the typical example is that nowadays when we go to search for some information for our assignments, we go straight to the Google Search, the Wikipedia, and seldom look for them in the library and newspaper because it is more convenient and efficient.
On the other hand, we are over depending on the digital media and somehow we cannot live without them. We will rather go to the search engine even though the library give you more concrete information, thus we may trust the information that are incorrect and not concrete in the virtual world.
These are some feelings about this course and the pros and cons of digital
media
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| Me watching a music video on Youtube, so chill~ |
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