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星期二, 4月 10, 2007

歡迎晒!入?坐?參觀??!
鳴謝腸炎菌於復活節仍辛勞辦公,令小妹中招並獲一天病假,以致小妹今日屈?屋企、悶到想死,於是立定決心另僻一個公開?秘密天地同幾個老友交換日記、share D 諗法、update?大家?近況,都幾好架。


首先post出一項月經會聚會告示:
本月唱K聚會?定於21號(星期六)舉行,時間地點將由主辦雙位:李俊及謝恆另行公佈。

敬希垂注。


等我update?大家先。呢個復活節假,我除?食食??、打?NDS、睇?戲之外,我仲報?名學車;5月3號考筆試。希望可以快D開始學車,試??棍波車!!哈哈~


posted by Ar Go 12:20 上午
星期日, 11月 09, 2003


posted by Ar Go 7:20 下午
星期二, 11月 19, 2002
Message board is not only a system for sharing ideas with different people, it could also be a place to gather people with similiar interests and targets in doing something. I find it's pretty interesting to see many girls shares their dieting schedules and strategies in the message board under the topic of Body & Fitness in a web site called
she.com. These girls go to the same message box and update their dieting progress as well as supporting each other everyday. Certain implications of Netiquette can be found from this area. One of the reasons that some newcomers being ignored is that they always ask questions that already answered previously. Question like "what methods do you girls use to lose weight?" mostly receives unfriendly reply because the answer ususally be posted at the very beginning. Another kind of unwelcome message is the one posted in the wrong place. In one message board, girls are losing weight by doing excerise and going against taking diet medicines. When a newcomer asked about what kind of diet products is most effective, she received few messages that ask her to leave.



Reference Article :Netiquette by Virginia Shea

posted by Ar Go 5:55 上午
星期一, 11月 18, 2002
Rebecca Jahn studies the power of Internet to open lines of communication between politicians and the people they represent. Since �Ask System� enables even non-experienced computer users can find information, people or agencies they need easily by typing natural language in web search engine, she points out that it fosters democracy in the Internet. Moreover, Internet makes government a lot more accessible and observable to people. Also, in her study, the development of the concepts of human communication, she finds out that people are interacting more with machines than people while Internet technology is more widely spread than ever before. As discussed in lectures, message sent through Internet would be stored in some place in the digital era even if the intended senders and receivers delete the transmission. It creates a fundermental change in communication system.

Reference Article:Plugging In To Electronic Democracy by Rebecca Jahn

posted by Ar Go 4:33 下午
星期四, 11月 14, 2002
Steve Clift, the editor of the
Democracies Online Newswire, recognize that the social, political, economic differences in countries, even communities around the world result in many different democracies. Besides, he thinks that we need talent people with an eye toward making the Internet a democracy network by nature. Just like HTTP and HTML enables freer speech. Although there is no expectation that anyone has a right of representation in the net, something has to be done on development of technical solutions and application to foster e-democracy. He discusses the project and ideas of Open Group, Representative Democracy Online Toolkit and Digital Datacasting. It brings in an idea for me to study democracy in Internet from technological perspective instead of only focusing on the rights and freedom of speech in cyber world.

Reference Article:CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere by Steve Clift (2000)


posted by Ar Go 3:06 下午
Mark Poster discussed the political impact of the Internet on several issues: access, technological determinism, encryption, commodification, intellectual property, the public sphere, decentralization, anarchy, gender and ethnicity. While he did a very throughout research to address these issues from different standpoints. Although it focused on the implication of democracy in political point of view, certain notions are applicable to my discussion about Internet as a New Media and Democracy in team project. Mark Poster mentioned that Internet is a decentralized communication system, similar to telephone network, that everyone with internet connection can send and receive messages in anytime, anyplace. When he talked about virtual communities, he said Internet functioning as a public space fosters democracy and also transformed the nature of it:

...a space in which citizens deliberate about their common affairs... is essential to democracy.[Nancy Fraser, Rethinking the Public Space]
The age of the public sphere as face-to-face talk is clearly over: the question of democracy must henceforth take into account new form of electronically mediated discourse.


Furthermore, Internet community breaks down hierarchies of race, class, age, status and gender, which works as democratic communication tool by enabling everyone to speak for themselves to anyone in cyber space.

Reference Article :An Internet of Democracy by Mark Poster (1995)

posted by Ar Go 2:48 下午
星期日, 9月 29, 2002
What is Netiquette?and why is it worth to hear?

Netiquetteis a set of rules for behaving properly online. Simply stated, it�s network etiquette. (Netiquette, Virginia Shea) It primarily involves any communication you may send out or receive from the net. Cyberspace is a place that people meet and exchange information, as long as it involves place and human, it creates it�s own culture. To avoid offending people when you are not intend to or being offended due to misunderstood of what other says, knowing more about Netiquettein different internet environments is essential to every cyberspace citizen.

Why there are differences in Netiquette for email and chat room user and what are the differences?

The nature of the way of people communicates in email and chat room is different. Email is a more personal way to communicate. In most situations, senders know the audience of their messages. Whereas, chat room is a more public place, which the message posted could be seen by everyone and also, responded or criticized by anyone in the chat room. Thus, the means of communication in chat room is more interactive with its ability of synchronize respond, while the one of email is relatively more like a single way of message sending as its reply usually comes back after a day or even more. The asynchronous nature of email is usually because of that people have different schedule to check their email account and do not know someone has something to tell them until they have it checked. Thus, it takes time for receivers to respond or consider if they should take action against the message they got. However, people in chat room have a purpose to communicate with others under certain topics, therefore, they gather in the same place at the same time.
With different communication practices in email and newsgroup/chat room, different Netiquetteare required.

A proper subject header that reflects the content of an email should be required as it gives an idea of receivers what are you going to tell them. Since email receivers can not get an instant reply from senders for clarification, email senders should include enough information, if necessary, attachment in the email as an reference for receivers to understand the message. However, to make the mail more readable? it should not be too long, says over 100 lines is considered as too long. Besides, attached files should not be larger than the receivers?email account can afford. Nevertheless, messages got synchronize respond in chat room. The more instant is it, the easier for people to clarify what they mean. Very often, people use symbols or short forms in chat room to make fast and quick respond. However, senders should be sure that those symbols and short forms they used are well known by other users and would not be misunderstood to offence people. Be careful of the slang that may not be understood by people in other countries.

To find out what is acceptable and what is not in a forum or chat room, Virginia said, it is always a good idea to go through the previous conversations and messages, observe for a while and get a feel of the atmosphere and culture of it before you join the discussion. It is easy to offense people when you keep asking something that is already answered. Furthermore, since anyone can enter any chat room or forum and there are so many in the internet, it helps you to make sure you are in the right place to discuss what you want to talk about. For example, in a Health - Fasting chat room when people are mainly discussing how fasting helps cleaning up toxins and battling cancer, but you just want to know how fasting can help to lose 10lbs in 3 days. You are definitely in a wrong place.

When you are going to forward an email to people, you should think twice and be sure that information is relevant to the receiver or if they want to receive it. Unsolicited email advertising or chained mail is always unwelcome. Unlike email that receiver can easily know who is the sender, it is not uncommon to have over ten or more users talking in one chat room or posting messages in a message board. Messages or conversation lines go very fast, which is hard for users to follow who say what sometime. If users are sending a message in respond to a specific message posted, they should address it to that particular message sender by mentioning his/her user name.

Despite of the above differences, there is a prime simple rule that is applicable to anywhere in cyberspace, do unto others as you�d have others do unto you (Netiquette, Virginia Shea). Even when you are facing a computer screen, please remember you are talking to a real people in another side.

According to Virginia Shea, "Flaming" is what people do when they express a strongly held opinion without holding back any emotion. It is a long-standing network tradition and can be lots of fun, to both write and read. However, a destructive flame war could spoil the tone and even dominate the chat room, which is not fair to other group members who are not involved. If you find a topic that offends you or do not feel comfortable with the tone of the chat room, just leave it.

Creating and maintaining a health environment in public cyberspace is part of the responsibility of every net citizen. Unacceptable or destructive behavior may get you banned from that server, or even put into jail.


Reference Article :Netiquette by Virginia Shea

posted by Ar Go 3:14 下午



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