communications

Lecture Summary

This lecture will be looking at the new ways of communications that we have today and also look at the past communication. Communication is very different today compared to twenty years ago simply because of the new technology we have today that has brought variety of communication tools. Communications can be between individuals or between individuals and organisations. There are four types of communications: place dependent , place independent , synchronous and asynchronous. In place independent communication parties can be anywhere in cyberspace, in place dependent all parties have to be in the same place, Asynchronous all parties take their turns in their own time and Synchronous all parties have to be engaged at thesame time eg phone call. Types of communication use:

• Mobile telephone (3G network)
  •Video and tele-conferencing
  • ipods, mp3, lap-tops
  •Electronic Mail (e-mail)
  •Multi-media communications

More examples of communication use:

social networking through Myspace, Freindster and Facebook.

There are also issues involved with communication notably in sending emails: Emails should not be used to send confrontations or complaints because they are easily forwarded to other people.

Benefits of using communiction are that students can discuss their assignments while in different places. They are also great sources of information.

Tutorial Summary

The tutorial will focus on enhacing students communications with their fellow students especiallyat situations such as at group assignments. Students will have a chance to use variety of tools to use in communication with other students, tutors and lecturers. The tutorial also requires students to list benefits of listenning to podcasts which are listed below.

Task 1

rec.sport.basketball.pro

The topic of interest to me is Basketball and therefore my search term was "who is the best all round player in the NBA at the moment"

Everyone who posted their opinions agreed on Kobe Bryant, however I was expecting some competition from players like Lebron James, Chris Paul, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. It was interesting to hear from some messages posted that Kobe wouln't have won the most valuable player if he was on a non contender team because he would have been focusing on hitting 81 points every game and not bringing his teamates into the game.

Task 2

Benefits of listenning to podcasts include:

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  Students can listen to lectures as they become available online


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  Students can listen to important speeches and take notes


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  Student can listen to audios that pertain to their assignments

Reading Summary:

Email spam is the form of advertising which has no incremental cost to the sender, but imposes costs on the recipients and has the potential to destroy the value of electronic mail. There are many problems which are associated with the so called email spam: Spammer has the potential to cost people unlimited amounts of time to deal with, it has the potential to drown out legitimate communications, thus making electronic mail useless for its original purpose. Statistics reveal that this problem is increasing at an alarming rate and has led to people abandoning their email accounts because of it. Spammer is different to other forms of spammers such as junk mails as sending junk mails cost more than that of spammer. It is unrealiseable that recieving a spammer costs the recipient money and doesn't cost the sender, thus that is why we need to be wary of emails that we recieve. It makes sense because if the sender is not paying for emails being sent than somebody must be paying for it. UBE is an alternative name for spammer wastes a load of time, this happens when you have email program that notifies you of new messages and the flow of what you were doing is broken and can lead to massive loses of productivity from employers point of view.

Some solutions to this problem have been suggested, but they have also been found to be flawed. It is suggested that when you recieve such emails just delete them, but deleting just deosn't stop emails being sent to you and by the time you delete the message the damage has already been done. What can be done to stop this problem from growing even further, there are easy solutions that work:

1. ban the practice of transmitting Unsolicited Bulk Email;


2. ban the sale of tools designed for spamming, and ban the marketing of tools as being suitable for the purpose of spamming;


3. provide a right of action to the recipient, together with suitable damages, say $750.00, payable to each recipient of the UBE - a private right of action being required because requiring a government agency to take action would place additional demands on federal revenue while guaranteeing less effective enforcement than a private right of action can provide;


4. express the damages in terms of penalty units;


5. provide for damages to be multiplied by a factor of 3 for wanton violations;


6. cover offshore spamming by Australian interests; and


7. provide for attaching to the outgoing revenue stream of foreign interests which spam Australians for the benefit of the spammers' revenue stream.