Pictures that Lie

I choose the picture of the University of Wisconsin's application front page, which was digitally altered by aggregating a 1994 picture of an African-American student into a 1993 football game picture. In my opinion, if you have to digitally enhance A PICTURE advertising diversity on your campus, then you have no business attributing such credit to your University. I saw this picture as "false advertisement" in the sense that minority students may actually believe there is diversity at the University of Wisconsin and when they actually get there, their surroundings may be entirely different than from what was depicted in the University's advertisements. I think manipulations such as this are very harmful because I know for a fact if I choose a school for an attribution it didn't really have, I would feel cheated out of a diverse education I was looking for.

CLT Visit

I honestly had no idea Trinity University had the CLT center even though I come quite often to the first floor to study. As a matter of fact, I always have to check out a laptop if I want to finish some assignments on the first floor, but now I know the convenience CLT has to offer. I really like how everything is set up at CLT. For example, there are so many useful resources like media rooms, scanners, computers, and an extremely friendly staff. Why wasn’t I aware of this place before? CLT also offers a quiet studying environment unlike the other computer floors in the library. I will most definitely be coming more often to the digital media center once we start working on Photoshop and digital imaging.

Copyright and Creative Commons

The main take home point I took from Jason Hardin’s presentation to the class was how important copyright is and how serious the consequences may be if you decide to partake in a copyright infringement. A copyright infringement is a crime and with fines up to $10,000 per song; it is definitely something not worth trying to mess around with. I understand that the entertainment industry is only trying to obtain their money’s worth, but are fines that extensive really necessary to college students. I understand that when you download a music or movies without paying for them then it might as well be stealing, but how are you going to charge mere college students about a quarter million dollars for 1 CD they downloaded? I think the penalties should be implemented, but not to the ridiculously drastic measures they are taken to now a days.




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