JOHNNY DEPP

 JOHNNY DEPP

an American actor

JOHNNY DEPPLONE RANGER

Native American spirit warrior JOHNNY DEPP

Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.

 a man of the law, into a legend of justice. The two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.

Pirates of The Caribbean

JACK SPARROW Johnny is awesome and brilliant

SUBCULTURES

Subcultures

                Subcultures are cultures that are outside the mainstream.  The mainstream culture has a tendency to support the status quo.  With the rise of cyber space subcultures can develop with little risk of the people involved becoming discovered.  Yes, we all have digital footprints but there is the element of anonymity that cyberspace provides.  You can say anything with in in reason and be anyone you want and if you do it carefully enough you will not be found out for what you are.  Since subcultures often times disagree with the mainstream population this element of anonymity serves the purpose of those who wish to be unique in their acceptance of government and corporate strongholds.  Many of these individuals express themselves through the internet and other technologies others go much farther and actually commit cybercrimes.

  Cybercrimes actually can range from hate inducing speech to credit card fraud and identity theft.  Any type of subversive activity can be found on the internet.  For example there are web sites that fish for personal information so that they can use that information to invade a bank account that is not theirs.  There are web sites that promote all types of adherent sexual behavior.  Including but not limited to child pornography, incest, and other taboos. 

 Crime and subversive criminal practices are similar as technology becomes more sophisticated so does cybercrime.  Cybercrime requires more technological advances to assist in the control of the offenses made against the unsuspecting victim.  One of the more recent applications available to the general public is an application that will change your voice and allow the perpetrator to register a different number when they call.  For example a man calls using a women’s voice from what appears to be A Domino’s Pizza Parlor.  He can say that you won a pizza but he needs the credit card number to pay for the tax and delivery charge.  The call will actually register for the Dominos store when in fact the caller is just trying to get the card information so that they can use it for themselves.  This is just one of the scams that the subculture of cybercriminal can use in their arsenal to get personal financial information.

   There are legitimist means of voicing ones opinion if you do not agree with the structure and principles of government and corporation.  One of these methods is blogging.  Blogging is not really a subculture anymore because of the diverse topics that are communicated on the World Wide Web in this media.  Blogs are a form of writing that expresses the views of others on line.  Blogs can present oneself in a persona that is acceptable to the author.  Unfortunately blogs can be factual or primarily fiction.  That depends upon the writer and their need to present facts that have been verified.   Blogs are only as good as the writer regardless of the focus of the blog.
            Webcams are an extension of the blog.  The technologies of self-representation can now use the Webcam adds to their autobiographies.  What does this mean the Commentator can show who they are as well as tell who they are?  They can also tell and show how others are.  Many people have been captured on phone video and their secrets have gone viral.  Reality TV could be considered part of the webcam sub-culture.  Webcam sites run by women have gained popularity in the last several years.  Many of these sites are run by women as self-representation.  Women can decide to place themselves in pornographic situations but they control what they present to the world.  This is a way of altering gender power whether it objectifies women or not.

            Hacking is another undesirable sub culture of the cyber world.  Hacking represents a more dangerous form of sub culture.  The computer and Internet generate a more novel threat to individuals, corporations, and nation-states.  Person details may be stolen and sold to third parties, emails can corrupt your hard drive by spreading viruses and messages/information without any truth may be spread by placing them on websites.

Stealing identities by stealing a password can allow a person to steal an entire identity.  Cyber stalking has resulted in cases of child molestation.  Many hate groups such as whit supremacist and extreme right –wing groups run hate campaigns using the Net called cyber hate.

        

    New technologies bring new methods of perpetuating subversive subcultures.  The technology comes first, the abuses second, and finally a way of dealing with the abuses third.  The legislation for the restriction of internet offenses is not yet a part of our world.  Many do not want regulations because they feel that our first amendment rights are being violated.  Others want controls on everything.  There is one thing for sure to keep up with the subversive subcultures there must be some type of controls levied upon the internet community.

BLOG chapter 14

Nostalgia Of The Young:

What is Nostalgia? Nostalgia is best described as a memory or long for the past, reminding the individual of an event or something that occurred in their life. Nostalgia includes emotion on both ends of the spectrum like happiness and sadness.  If Nostalgia was a taste it would be a lemon pie, tart with an underlying sweetness.  It is with this emotion of Nostalgia that we greet the new technologies that we are confronted with daily.

 Gone are the days where you pick up a phone, call a friend, and talk for hours.  Our lives do not fit this concept.  We are too busy to spend this much time “communicating”.  Instead, we must be satisfied with simply connecting with as many people as we can.  Is it any wonder that people look at the past with Nostalgia?  How many of us experience communication that expresses emotion to each other in meaningful ways? 

Should we actually be settling for texts that communicate the important details of our lives?  Is it appropriate for a spouse to communicate to her significant other that she is pregnant.  Is it more important to be practical as well as personal to ask your partner to marry you in a text message?  Is all communication supposed to be quick abrupt and impersonal.  What does this do to us as people?  Are we relegating emotions as something that belongs in the past in order to keep up with digital world technology?  Our new technologies change daily.  We as a generation are becoming technology junkies and we are missing communication techniques that our mothers and fathers employed.  Should this bother us? I think that it should.  I believe that we can have both the digital world of technology along with excellent communication skills.  I do not think that it is necessary to put our entire lives on Facebook.  I also feel that good communication begins with trust.  We have the best tools to communicate with than any generation thus far and yet I fear that we are abusing them.  You very rarely see an individual under the age of 25 without a phone, tablet, iPod, or laptop with them.  How many times have you been in a coffee shop, seen two people together, and yet they are texting someone else on the phone.  What happened to the basic rules of good interpersonal communication?  How can you be a good listener if you are more interested in answering the last text that talking to the person that you are with?  How can we bond with who we most want to be with if when we are with them we are texting someone else?  When we fail to make a personal connection with other people with new technology we have the ability to join a fantasy reality like “Second Life”.  In virtual realities like second life we can communicate on a personal level with other people who want to pretend to be someone other than they are rather that actually working to become the person that they really would like to be. As a generation I feel that we have lost the much of the human bonding that we as a species need for positive mental health.

In my opinion digital technically advanced technology has flooded our lives and given us a different set of rules and expectations of others.  Unfortunately the rule book is a secret and we are floundering attempting to find our when our human side fits with our technological side.  Facebook, twitter, dating sites, and sites for true confessions have given people a new way of communicating and dealing with the emotions and pressures of today but how much of our technology helps us work though our problems and how much does our technology actually help us avoid our problems.

Our country has been faced with multiple tragedies involving shootings in schools and other public places by individuals who are mentally unbalanced.  Our answer to restricting these incidents would be to control the access of guns in our cities in states.  I do not feel that this is the only answer to this very serious problem.  As a nation I think that we have to pay attention to the way that we are communicating with each other.  A virtual reality site would be psychologically devastating to person who is not reality based.  The virtual reality war games can have a pathological effect on someone with violent tendencies.   For unstable individuals, to suggest that it is ok to kill thousands of people in a video game, how big of a stretch is it to suggest its ok to kill groups of people in a movie theater, mall or school.  Are video games, virtual reality games, true confession sites, Facebook and twitter bad?  I don’t think so but I think that they have done additional psychological damage to the psychologically impaired.  Technology has changed so quickly that there has not been enough time to evaluate the positive and negative effects of it.

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Attention to each other is what we are lacking as our dependence on technology increases.  Young teens can multitask texting while they are doing other things but they are losing the ability to focus when asked to attend to a new concept or skill.  I have experienced the results of broken relationships due to too much dependence on technology and not enough attention on interpersonal skills.

Finally, technological advances are wonderful but we are allowing these advances to control us.  We should not throw away what we have learned from interpersonal contact.  It is rude to text while the person that you are with is sitting across from you expecting conversation.  It is insensitive to place personal information about another person on the internet without discussing it with them first.  It is alright to let someone hear your voice when you want to tell them you love them, and if you do something to offend a friend it is better to tell them you are sorry than text them an apology.

           

chapter 11-12

CHAPTER 11 Reduction and BETRAYAL and Chapter 12 True Confessions.

Galina

 

                Men learning to move as women, Women discussing depression, and software engineers attempting to gain a second life what is this description of?  It seems like this is the description of a science fiction adventure but it is not it is today and todays virtual reality.  I absolutely am in awe of the people who are creating avatars. What is the effect of the Avatars and Second life?  Are we becoming a society who values fantasy instead of reality or are we simply a resourceful society who have found creative outlets for our inventiveness?  First, there is much to admire in living through an avatar.  For individuals who have lost limbs or have a devastating experience it gives them an opportunity to work through trauma as another individual.  I see the psychological advantages of the individual who had lost her leg practicing by acting through her avatar.  I also see the psychological advantages of the person who is getting over a traumatic event using avatars to do it. However there are other areas of the Second Life trend that are a little scary.  For example:  I see the psychological advantages but I also see the Psychological pit falls.  The book mentions that virtual reality games and internet games can be addictive.  It states that people become so involved in their virtual lives that they ignore their real lives.  I also see that many psychological disorders are caused from an individual’s inability to separate fact from fantasy.  It seems that inventing an avatar to live in a virtual reality almost encourages a blur between fact and fantasy.

 

 It would be wonderful to be able to sit all day and interact in a world where the participant choses and has total control over their environment and life.  The problem is if you are unable to interact in the real world it will not be too long before the internet is turned off and fantasy is turned into cruel, real, reality.  Most of us are addicted to technology in one way or the other.  Very few of us feel comfortable leaving our cell phones at home or not checking to see if we have a text message for several hours but I would hope that those of us who are gamers are still able to operate in reality

As concerned as I am about creating a virtual world and living in it, I am even more concerned about the true confession website.  There is no such thing as privacy on the web site.  If the people who are putting their secrets on line think that they are anonymous.  If it is not enough that you might be busted for your deepest secret there is a possibility that someone may share the same secret.  An immediate bond can be formed as the book suggests and the person who has done something immoral, illegal, or just plain mean all of a sudden feels better.  I am not so sure this is a good thing.  We all do things we are ashamed of but if sharing that shame makes us feel better what is to keep the secret holder from becoming desensitized and repeating the offense.  Most of us need to talk about our sins.  In my opinion that is why there are priests.  All of us need to forgive ourselves for their wrongs but this requires acceptance of guilt and the ability to change our actions.  From what I read in Chapter 12 it seems like the true confessions web site helps us rationalize our deeds not change them.