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The anonymous is covering their face with mask whenever they are publishing the news and all people in this organization is wearing the same mask. Even though people usually called them a hacker, however they are doing it in a good way by provide people information that they should have known and things happen behind the scene of politic.

This is somehow related to the information concept because people could able to find these politic secrets through WikiLeaks and I believe they have the right to know about the information since they are the citizens of a country. Also, WikiLeaks as well as citizen have the privilege to have free speech, freedom of surveillance and they could share the information on the Internet. The artifact above shows how the government is denounced by people through information provided by WikiLeaks. Even though the hacktivism deals with political issues reaching far beyond strictly on the digital space, yet if the government has nothing to hide it has nothing to fear.

This video related to the concept of information because we can see that government and everyone can able to track you through your browse on the Internet and you will be monitored without your notice. Therefore, all the information that you put on the Internet definitely could be invaded even though you set it in private.  

Related to the artifact, it shows how people’s activity and privacy get spy from different methods and devices, such as Google or phone's records. 

The Internet is having a more positive affect than a negative affect to the new immigrant. It enables new immigrant to find more information about new places and have more networks with new people as well as maintain relationship with their friends and families. Related to the artifact, it can be seen that we can make a connection with people from all over the places from different countries through the Internet and from that it could benefit you with many opportunities and advance through a larger socialization.

The concepts related to this cartography topic is information and interactivity . I think this creation of these maps has both advantages and disadvantages to our lives nowadays. It helps us a lot with navigation or gets connected from others people through crowdsourcing practices. It gives us lots of information for navigation as well as lots of information needed to create this digital map. However, it makes us more reliable on the digital maps and less interactive with the traditional way that we used to figure out directions with paper maps. Also, from lots of information it provided us for navigation; yet it could tracked us from those information it provided. Even though these digital maps make us less interactive and more depend on it, yet I believe it is more safety and convenience for our life. Related to artifact above, you could see the comedy of the pictures and yet the consistency of how this practice of map 2.0 beneficial to our life and the convenience of interactive map to us nowadays.

We can see that there are lots of many sites on social media and lots of politic actors as well as citizen access to it everyday and have strong influences on social media. From the video above, it shows how candidates recently get close to the voter through social media, such as: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. They are spreading their image to the voters by doing many donation campaigns on social media and have thousand and millions friends’ connection with voters on Facebook. With more or less, we can obviously see how social media gets involve in politic nowadays and sooner or later it will transform the politic. The normalization frame is related to the network, interface and interactivity concepts. It is an interface  between human and machines in order to allow for interactivity between humans. This practice helps to expand the connection and network of people and also enable to share information in order to support for the politic-man's perspective.

I think people are getting more involved in the communication revolution through the Internet. The citizens are collecting their memory information and spread to the world on blogging with the pictures or videos to represent for their opinion or perspective. On the other hand, the traditional journalists have different way to collects the memory and do a journalism in a more professional way and different perspective compared to citizens journalism. Related to the artifact above, we can see how fast the communication rising when the Internet gets involved. People can freely to speak up for their opinion through blogging and moreover giving citizen ability to represent their perspective.

Software patents granted in order to protect the ideas, inventions, and products of the producers for a certain period of time. When the product’s patent is granted, no one can take, use, or sell the product without the permission of patent holders. The chart above shows the connection between the patent strategy, business, law, and technology in order for people to success in business. For most of every business, people usually have to sign and agree with the company’s patent in which they can protect not only their product but also intangible assets with other competitors for their future innovation. The patent has an important role in the success of business; and the patent activity helps the business to protect their confidential information, core technology, the ownership of physical and intellectual property, and also generate revenue and value for the business.

File sharing was first introduces in 1992, it is designed to sharing a file publicly or privately on the Internet. It allows people to share information, musics, pictures on the Internet to many users. It is a controversial topic since it could be count as illegal or legal practice depend on the information users shared. It is related to the copyrights law; if any songs or pictures are copyrighted then people not allow to share or download it without permission and vice versa. This could lead you to a serious crime if people are sharing and downloading things that are illegally for them to obtain or distributed. There are many people are sharing and downloading files that are illegal, they could end up by go to jail and sentenced. The artifact above shows how serious by downloading an illegally shared file on the Internet nowadays can get you into serious trouble compared to others crime such as murder, rape, or kidnapped. 

  Nowadays, many people decide to get involve on the Internet sites to help them to pick a lover. By involving in the Internet, they will have many options and opportunities to meet new people and get to know other’s online. They have chances to talk and virtually interact with other partners because of their are good looking or their attractive profile. Obviously, the Internet helps people to expand their boundary to find for themselves a partner, we can talk and get to know our partner in many other countries and this practice has been developing and increasing nowadays. These sites help people to matching up their partners based on each other's interests or perspective. This helps people nowadays much more easier for them to get to know someone and enable them to share pictures or information about themselves to their partners. The artifact above related that people are now freely to sign up in these dating sites and have many options to choose who they want to talk and then they can decide to see each other in person later. This is all about their choice. Also, this is related to the concepts of how people interface with Web 2.0 in order for them to involve in the online relationship and the information that they provided on these sites in order for them to match up with their partners. 

One very interesting thing that I find out about online dating is that people can create ideal selves that hold notion of their past, present, and future.  Based on the author’s analysis, there is a section in online dating where people undertaking of an obligation that they promise to do in a good faith; it is called “profile as promise.”  The authors believe that this is important to online dating since it can help to attract other daters and people can share the specific expectation in communal online dating. I think the “profile as promise” has both utopian and dystopian to online dating. It has advantages that people can easily identify other’s perspective and behavior of the presenters. However, we cannot 100% sure that if those presenters are the brokers or promise-keepers.

The Like button does not simple as it look like. Facebook can track you by your behavior and stuff that you like . Most of people when they click "like button" , the stuffs they liked will be recorded in cookies and many  advertising related to it will show up to your wall even though they have not specifically click on it. According to the data provided in the article, approximately 20% of 1000 sites are using the "Like button" and this is allowed to tracked user's profile and these information worth money in the market.  The Like button allowed to exchange and  transform the information from multiple users. However, the Like button also used to tracked users' information. This is taken away the privacy of users without their notice and therefore people should careful with the things that they liked or shared on Facebook. 

As you can see in the picture above, people are freely to “Photoshop” and “fix” any part that they do not like about themselves on their profile. It is a commonsense that people want to be look perfect; yet, they are somehow lying to themselves in the fake world.

Nowadays, Confessional society is such a common practice, that we could see almost in everyone's life. Basically, confessional society means publishing your private life to the public. It could be a 100% of your real life or it could be twisted in order to fit in with the virtual community. I believe it has both good and bad sides of the practice. For example, confessional society can lead to networking which is very helpful and practical in today's world. It can help people to reach out to the society and get more connection that otherwise would be impossible to make offline. Networking is stronger than ever; matching demand and supply of one person to another's. On the other hand, confessional society could lead to scamming and fraud due to misrepresented information that people can created online. There is little to no regulation in the online world. The picture above is an example of a strong and reliable networking site: Linkedin. The platform has created both advantages and disadvantages to people's real life. People can be able to find jobs' and opportunities through this website, yet they could also be scammed by fake accounts. 

The concept of interface in technology nowadays helps to connect the interaction between humans, machines, hardware and many other things in order to increase communication between people. From what I have learned throughout the classes, I think interface both has positive and negative sides of it. It allowed us to increase communication with people and have more connection and network by interface; yet it also take us as granted and put us under surveillance of government. As we have learned from the classes there is a program that enable NSA access into these Internet’s companies to collect data from users’ is called Prism. It allows NSA officially collect materials from documents, search history, content of emails, file transfer and live chats. This is the significant practice of interface in technology that we could see there is lots of interaction between machines and hardware as well as companies through PRISM. From that program, it could track us about our activities and information that we do online. However, interface is also helping people to communicate with each other and stand up and fight for their right of privacy online and against to the surveillance program. The artifact above reveals how the program gets to spy people’s virtual life through lots of connection and interact with many different companies.