ITGS

2.5 Homes and Leisure

Topic

Examples
Homes and home networks
 IT management of home systems: for example, lighting, security, entertainment centres.
Digital entertainment
 Films, photographs, music, arts, online and digital games, gambling, virtual worlds.
Social networking
 Chat rooms, messaging, blogging, file sharing, wikis.
Published and broadcast information
 Books, newspapers, digital radio and TV, e-books, podcasts.
Digital policing
 Monitoring organizations such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
Hardware, software and networks
 Portable digital devices and their ability to remotely control other devices, IT-enabled appliances.

Unit Objectives

Quick in page links

Homes & Home Networks-Digital Entertainment-Social Networking-Published & broadcast information- Digital Policing-Hardware,Software & Networks

Homes and Home Networks

The following resources are very useful for studying smart homes (also known as home automation technology): Of course, as technology becomes ever ubiquitous in the home, privacy and security become increasing concerns. When 'Smart Homes'How to hack and crack the connected home, When 'Smart Homes' Get Hacked: I Haunted A Stranger's House Via The Internet, and LG Smart TVs logging USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers detail some of these issues. 

Smart homes are closely linked to remote patient monitoring projects in the Health chapter.

Digital Entertainment

Social Networking

Published and Broadcast Information

Published and broadcast information: Television

Like it or loathe it, the TV show Big Brother draws huge audiences, many of whom are eager to find out more about the show online. Without hefty technology, it couldn't be done. Computer Weekly explains how it is achieved in Claranet cloud powers Channel 5's Big Brother. 

How the Olympic Torch Relay is Broadcast Live (BBC) details some surprising technologies that are sometimes used in live, mobile broadcasting.

Published and broadcast information: Newspapers

Online Paywalls and the Future of Media: A Few Hard Truths andPapers worldwide embrace web subscriptions discuss the increased use of paywalls as news organisations struggle to make money in an online world. Would you pay for online news?discusses the demise of the printed edition of TIME magazine, explains some of the challenges faced by newspapers, and asks whether paywalls will simply push readers to other news sites. 

Meanwhile, interactive newsprint may be the future of "printed" news...

Published and broadcast information: Social media and news

This multi-award-winning short film makes a great lesson starter. It imagines how the classic tale The Three Little Pigsmight be told in today's modern news and social media. Really smart and fun, it is an excellent resource for generating discussions.

Published and broadcast information: Citizen Journalism

One of the most notable examples of citizen journalism is thefamous image of US Airways flight 1549 moments after it landed in the Hudson river in January 2009. The image was taken by a Janis Krums, a passenger on a nearby ferry, and quickly spread around the world. Other famous examples include citizen reports on the 2005 terrorist attacks on London transportation systems, with major news organisations featuring eye witness submissionsand even video clips from the Underground trains (which professional journalists could not access). The most famous image from these events - that of a number 30 bus moments after a bomb ripped it apart - won the first prize in awards set up by Nokia and the UK Press Gazette.

Citizen journalism also played a major role in the 2011 'Arab spring' uprisings in Syria and Egypt.

Assignment:

  1. Books/e-books
  2. Newspapers
  3. Digital radio
  4. TV
  5. Podcasts

Groups will select a single aspect (above) and make a presentation.

Focuse on the following issues:

Digital Policing

Link
 Description
 Links to Other Strands
RIAA: Piracy: Online and on the Street – The Law 
 The copyright law clearly categorizes piracy as a "Criminal Act". Details about what the law says and what it means are included in this document.
 Strand 1: Intellectual property, Authenticity, The digital divide and equality of access, Policies, Standards and protocols, People and machines, Digital citizenship
Strand 3: Hardware, Software, Networks, Internet, Multimedia/digital media 
MPAA: Copyright Laws
 International, federal, and state copyright laws by the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
 Strand 1: Intellectual property, Authenticity, The digital divide and equality of access, Policies, Standards and protocols, People and machines, Digital citizenship
Strand 3: Hardware, Software, Networks, Internet, Multimedia/digital media 
RIAA: For students doing reports
 The role of the RIAA, effect of piracy on sales, effect of peer to peer networks, lawsuits, and strategies taken to combat piracy are detailed in this page.
 Strand 1: Intellectual property, Authenticity, The digital divide and equality of access, Policies, Standards and protocols, People and machines, Digital citizenship
Strand 3: Hardware, Software, Networks, Internet, Multimedia/digital media 

Digital Policing Presentation Assignment

Hardware, Software and Networks