1. The document discusses the work of media theorists Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan and how they analyzed the impact of different communication media on societies and cultures.
2. Innis argued that media can be classified as either time-biased or space-biased based on their physical properties and how they influence the organization of societies.
3. McLuhan popularized the idea that "the medium is the message" and that communication media have subtle effects on users' perceptions beyond the actual content delivered.
Technological determinism, media ecology and medium theory are all interrelated and make sense together. This paper will define those three terms and explain their purposes, as well as their relation to each other. Understanding technological determinism, media ecology, as well as medium theory is particularly crucial today in our modernized society. It allows one to better perceive the evolution of technologies and its impacts on societies and on people.
Technological determinism, media ecology and medium theory are all interrelated and make sense together. This paper will define those three terms and explain their purposes, as well as their relation to each other. Understanding technological determinism, media ecology, as well as medium theory is particularly crucial today in our modernized society. It allows one to better perceive the evolution of technologies and its impacts on societies and on people.
We live in a rapidly changing world … a world in which there seems to be a conspiracy by the proponents of globalization to use digital devices for the westernization of all other cultures. This is indeed a worrisome development! But more worrisome is the fact that in contemporary African society, our communication systems ( music, dance, drama, story-telling, masking etc.) are being gradually superimposed with movie-watching, computer-gaming, celebrity-following and other digitally-induced forms of communication that are counter-productive to Africans. Obviously, such digitally-induced forms of communication not only shape the understanding and dreams of the ordinary citizen wherever he/she may be; but also create mass market of Western culture at the expense of indigenous African culture. In the light of the above observation, this paper shall with particular prejudice to the non-verbal forms of communication in traditional African setting, examine the roles of the indigenous modes of communication vis-à-vis their Western counterparts in the message transfer process. The study shall adopt the textual analysis method of research to investigate the survivability of the indigenous modes of communication among the Igbo’s in South/East Nigeria in the face of palpable threat from the digital divide.
My presentation at the Media Ecology Association Convention 2010. Objective: to explore and expand the ecological metaphor including concepts like media evolution, media extinction, human-media coevolution, etc.
This is a collection of my favorite Marshall McLuhan quotes. McLuhan was a visionary thinker who published a lot on 'the new media' in his age (= tv, radio, and later the computer). His insights are impressively transferable to our current web-revolutions.
(DISCLAIMER: as far as I know, the pictures in this presentation may be used for this purpose (source = www.sxc.hu). The creative commons license is NOT valid for the picture material)
Lecture slides on McLuhan lecture for ARIN2600 Technocultures at the University of Sydney. This explores McLuhan's probing approach to media, which positions technology as an extension of human faculties. By implication, changes in media / technology change what it is to be human. McLuhan remains a controversial, but influential figure in media and new media studies.
Nowadays, we need to learn how to communicate all over again, just like when we were children. This requires learning language as well as learning behavioral norms for good communication. However, this will be a bit different since we're adults learning how to communicate in someone else's culture, not our own.
Intercultural communication is the verbal and nonverbal interaction between people from different cultural backgrounds. Basically, 'inter-' is a prefix that means 'between' and cultural means… well, from a culture, so intercultural communication is the communication between cultures. Sometimes, this is used to describe a single person trying to interact in a foreign environment but more often, it is a two-way street, where people from both cultures are trying to improve their communication.
Mass media means technology that is intended to reach a mass audience. It is the primary means of communication used to reach the vast majority of the general public. The most common platforms for mass media are newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the Internet.
Media and SocietyMedia HistoryJOHN DEWEY – 185.docxalfredacavx97
Media and Society
Media History
JOHN DEWEY – 1859-1952
Harold A. Innis
1894-1952
Marshall McLuhan – 1911-1980
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
1912-2003
Robert W. McChesney – 1952-
Three Historical Narratives:
Oral to Electronic Culture
Oral Culture – all interactions take place in face-to-face discussions.
Written Culture – a shared system of inscription in a literate society exists so that communication can take place outside of face-to-face discussions across time and space.
Print Culture – an expansion of Written Culture that encompasses the consequent social and cultural changes that result from the proliferation of printer material.
Electronic Culture – communication transcends time and space.
There is a different sense of time in Oral Culture, according to Ong.
Since there are no records, memory cannot be recorded. History
can only reside in the present, in the telling of the story. Memory
is thematic and formulaic. The story may vary very little from telling to
telling over time, but the words and phrases used may differ.
Performance is the key to authorship. Every time a story is told or a work is
performed, it is shaped by the performer and provides a new model for future performances.
Oral cultures are relatively homogeneous with respect to knowledge and social norms but public and shared across generations.
Written Culture, according to McLuhan , has been the means of creating
‘civilized man.’
According to Innis, written communication allowed societies to persevere through time by creating durable texts which could be handed down and referred to. This allowed for control of knowledge by certain hierarchies and also allowed for centralized control to expand over a wider area.
Audiences could be remote in time and space, and the communicator could guarantee that the message received is identical to the one sent without having to rely on the memory of the messenger. The communicator could reach a wider and more disparate audience.
Print Culture – the ability to mechanically reproduce text freed writing
from its reliance on an elite group of individuals and guaranteed that
each copy of the text would be identical to every other copy.
Printing was instrumental in the development of a secular society and in the establishment of a democracy among the upper classes in early
modern Europe, according to historian, Elizabeth Eisenstein.
Printing reinforced the sense of individuality and privacy and makes
Introspection possible.
Printing enabled the emergence of the newspaper and the novel, and
altered the very structure of human consciousness and thought.
Electronic Culture – the telegraph reorganized people’s perception of space and time; it enabled the transmission of messages across space, and it fostered a rational reorganization of time. The telegraph also separated transportation from communication.
According to Innis, electronic culture allows for a new fo.
Media and SocietyMedia HistoryJOHN DEWEY – 185.docxjessiehampson
Media and Society
Media History
JOHN DEWEY – 1859-1952
Harold A. Innis
1894-1952
Marshall McLuhan – 1911-1980
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
1912-2003
Robert W. McChesney – 1952-
Three Historical Narratives:
Oral to Electronic Culture
Oral Culture – all interactions take place in face-to-face discussions.
Written Culture – a shared system of inscription in a literate society exists so that communication can take place outside of face-to-face discussions across time and space.
Print Culture – an expansion of Written Culture that encompasses the consequent social and cultural changes that result from the proliferation of printer material.
Electronic Culture – communication transcends time and space.
There is a different sense of time in Oral Culture, according to Ong.
Since there are no records, memory cannot be recorded. History
can only reside in the present, in the telling of the story. Memory
is thematic and formulaic. The story may vary very little from telling to
telling over time, but the words and phrases used may differ.
Performance is the key to authorship. Every time a story is told or a work is
performed, it is shaped by the performer and provides a new model for future performances.
Oral cultures are relatively homogeneous with respect to knowledge and social norms but public and shared across generations.
Written Culture, according to McLuhan , has been the means of creating
‘civilized man.’
According to Innis, written communication allowed societies to persevere through time by creating durable texts which could be handed down and referred to. This allowed for control of knowledge by certain hierarchies and also allowed for centralized control to expand over a wider area.
Audiences could be remote in time and space, and the communicator could guarantee that the message received is identical to the one sent without having to rely on the memory of the messenger. The communicator could reach a wider and more disparate audience.
Print Culture – the ability to mechanically reproduce text freed writing
from its reliance on an elite group of individuals and guaranteed that
each copy of the text would be identical to every other copy.
Printing was instrumental in the development of a secular society and in the establishment of a democracy among the upper classes in early
modern Europe, according to historian, Elizabeth Eisenstein.
Printing reinforced the sense of individuality and privacy and makes
Introspection possible.
Printing enabled the emergence of the newspaper and the novel, and
altered the very structure of human consciousness and thought.
Electronic Culture – the telegraph reorganized people’s perception of space and time; it enabled the transmission of messages across space, and it fostered a rational reorganization of time. The telegraph also separated transportation from communication.
According to Innis, electronic culture allows for a new fo.
We live in a rapidly changing world … a world in which there seems to be a conspiracy by the proponents of globalization to use digital devices for the westernization of all other cultures. This is indeed a worrisome development! But more worrisome is the fact that in contemporary African society, our communication systems ( music, dance, drama, story-telling, masking etc.) are being gradually superimposed with movie-watching, computer-gaming, celebrity-following and other digitally-induced forms of communication that are counter-productive to Africans. Obviously, such digitally-induced forms of communication not only shape the understanding and dreams of the ordinary citizen wherever he/she may be; but also create mass market of Western culture at the expense of indigenous African culture. In the light of the above observation, this paper shall with particular prejudice to the non-verbal forms of communication in traditional African setting, examine the roles of the indigenous modes of communication vis-à-vis their Western counterparts in the message transfer process. The study shall adopt the textual analysis method of research to investigate the survivability of the indigenous modes of communication among the Igbo’s in South/East Nigeria in the face of palpable threat from the digital divide.
My presentation at the Media Ecology Association Convention 2010. Objective: to explore and expand the ecological metaphor including concepts like media evolution, media extinction, human-media coevolution, etc.
This is a collection of my favorite Marshall McLuhan quotes. McLuhan was a visionary thinker who published a lot on 'the new media' in his age (= tv, radio, and later the computer). His insights are impressively transferable to our current web-revolutions.
(DISCLAIMER: as far as I know, the pictures in this presentation may be used for this purpose (source = www.sxc.hu). The creative commons license is NOT valid for the picture material)
Lecture slides on McLuhan lecture for ARIN2600 Technocultures at the University of Sydney. This explores McLuhan's probing approach to media, which positions technology as an extension of human faculties. By implication, changes in media / technology change what it is to be human. McLuhan remains a controversial, but influential figure in media and new media studies.
Nowadays, we need to learn how to communicate all over again, just like when we were children. This requires learning language as well as learning behavioral norms for good communication. However, this will be a bit different since we're adults learning how to communicate in someone else's culture, not our own.
Intercultural communication is the verbal and nonverbal interaction between people from different cultural backgrounds. Basically, 'inter-' is a prefix that means 'between' and cultural means… well, from a culture, so intercultural communication is the communication between cultures. Sometimes, this is used to describe a single person trying to interact in a foreign environment but more often, it is a two-way street, where people from both cultures are trying to improve their communication.
Mass media means technology that is intended to reach a mass audience. It is the primary means of communication used to reach the vast majority of the general public. The most common platforms for mass media are newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the Internet.
Media and SocietyMedia HistoryJOHN DEWEY – 185.docxalfredacavx97
Media and Society
Media History
JOHN DEWEY – 1859-1952
Harold A. Innis
1894-1952
Marshall McLuhan – 1911-1980
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
1912-2003
Robert W. McChesney – 1952-
Three Historical Narratives:
Oral to Electronic Culture
Oral Culture – all interactions take place in face-to-face discussions.
Written Culture – a shared system of inscription in a literate society exists so that communication can take place outside of face-to-face discussions across time and space.
Print Culture – an expansion of Written Culture that encompasses the consequent social and cultural changes that result from the proliferation of printer material.
Electronic Culture – communication transcends time and space.
There is a different sense of time in Oral Culture, according to Ong.
Since there are no records, memory cannot be recorded. History
can only reside in the present, in the telling of the story. Memory
is thematic and formulaic. The story may vary very little from telling to
telling over time, but the words and phrases used may differ.
Performance is the key to authorship. Every time a story is told or a work is
performed, it is shaped by the performer and provides a new model for future performances.
Oral cultures are relatively homogeneous with respect to knowledge and social norms but public and shared across generations.
Written Culture, according to McLuhan , has been the means of creating
‘civilized man.’
According to Innis, written communication allowed societies to persevere through time by creating durable texts which could be handed down and referred to. This allowed for control of knowledge by certain hierarchies and also allowed for centralized control to expand over a wider area.
Audiences could be remote in time and space, and the communicator could guarantee that the message received is identical to the one sent without having to rely on the memory of the messenger. The communicator could reach a wider and more disparate audience.
Print Culture – the ability to mechanically reproduce text freed writing
from its reliance on an elite group of individuals and guaranteed that
each copy of the text would be identical to every other copy.
Printing was instrumental in the development of a secular society and in the establishment of a democracy among the upper classes in early
modern Europe, according to historian, Elizabeth Eisenstein.
Printing reinforced the sense of individuality and privacy and makes
Introspection possible.
Printing enabled the emergence of the newspaper and the novel, and
altered the very structure of human consciousness and thought.
Electronic Culture – the telegraph reorganized people’s perception of space and time; it enabled the transmission of messages across space, and it fostered a rational reorganization of time. The telegraph also separated transportation from communication.
According to Innis, electronic culture allows for a new fo.
Media and SocietyMedia HistoryJOHN DEWEY – 185.docxjessiehampson
Media and Society
Media History
JOHN DEWEY – 1859-1952
Harold A. Innis
1894-1952
Marshall McLuhan – 1911-1980
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
1912-2003
Robert W. McChesney – 1952-
Three Historical Narratives:
Oral to Electronic Culture
Oral Culture – all interactions take place in face-to-face discussions.
Written Culture – a shared system of inscription in a literate society exists so that communication can take place outside of face-to-face discussions across time and space.
Print Culture – an expansion of Written Culture that encompasses the consequent social and cultural changes that result from the proliferation of printer material.
Electronic Culture – communication transcends time and space.
There is a different sense of time in Oral Culture, according to Ong.
Since there are no records, memory cannot be recorded. History
can only reside in the present, in the telling of the story. Memory
is thematic and formulaic. The story may vary very little from telling to
telling over time, but the words and phrases used may differ.
Performance is the key to authorship. Every time a story is told or a work is
performed, it is shaped by the performer and provides a new model for future performances.
Oral cultures are relatively homogeneous with respect to knowledge and social norms but public and shared across generations.
Written Culture, according to McLuhan , has been the means of creating
‘civilized man.’
According to Innis, written communication allowed societies to persevere through time by creating durable texts which could be handed down and referred to. This allowed for control of knowledge by certain hierarchies and also allowed for centralized control to expand over a wider area.
Audiences could be remote in time and space, and the communicator could guarantee that the message received is identical to the one sent without having to rely on the memory of the messenger. The communicator could reach a wider and more disparate audience.
Print Culture – the ability to mechanically reproduce text freed writing
from its reliance on an elite group of individuals and guaranteed that
each copy of the text would be identical to every other copy.
Printing was instrumental in the development of a secular society and in the establishment of a democracy among the upper classes in early
modern Europe, according to historian, Elizabeth Eisenstein.
Printing reinforced the sense of individuality and privacy and makes
Introspection possible.
Printing enabled the emergence of the newspaper and the novel, and
altered the very structure of human consciousness and thought.
Electronic Culture – the telegraph reorganized people’s perception of space and time; it enabled the transmission of messages across space, and it fostered a rational reorganization of time. The telegraph also separated transportation from communication.
According to Innis, electronic culture allows for a new fo.
We call a medium a “mass medium” if it meets the following two requirements. “First, it must reach many people. Second, it requires the use of some technological device, located between source and destination”
(Whetmore, 1985, pp.6-7)
To understand mass media better, it is necessary to brief the evolution of media. In pre-agricultural societies, most people lived in small groups as hunters and gatherers. These people depended on the spoken word, rather than written language, to transmit their message, for they did not have well developed alphabets or systems of writing. Agricultural societies are more settled and more complex than pre-agricultural societies, so people created written language for easier and wider communication.
Metaloguing: The New Paradigms of Storytelling in the Age of Digital Mediaijma
This study proposes ‘Storymetaloguing’ as a new term in the Age of Digital Media, meaning the intricate and multilayered nature of modern storytelling. With the advent of digital and mobile media, storytelling has transcended traditional unidirectional forms and evolved into a rich tapestry of narrative practices, engaging audiences across various interactive platforms. This study aims to delineate the transition from conventional storytelling to Storymetaloguing within the digital media context. The methodological approach involves a systematic review of literature tracing the evolution of narrative forms from oral traditions to the multifaceted digital age, focusing on the increased potential for audience participation and the convergence of various media forms. The results indicate a shift from 'story' as static text to 'storytelling' as a dynamic, interactive act, necessitating the new term 'Storymetaloguing,' which captures the essence of contemporary narratives characterized by their interactivity, multiplicity, and transmediality. As a consequence, ‘Storymetaloguing’ emerges as a more apt descriptor of current narrative practices, especially in light of platforms like the metaverse that facilitate diversified creation and dissemination of stories. Thus, this study can contribute to media and communication discourse by offering a nuanced understanding of storytelling's progression and its implications for future narrative paradigms.
METALOGUING: THE NEW PARADIGMS OF STORYTELLING IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL MEDIAijma
This study proposes ‘Storymetaloguing’ as a new term in the Age of Digital Media, meaning the intricate and multilayered nature of modern storytelling. With the advent of digital and mobile media, storytelling has transcended traditional unidirectional forms and evolved into a rich tapestry of narrative practices, engaging audiences across various interactive platforms. This study aims to delineate the transition from conventional storytelling to Storymetaloguing within the digital media context. The methodological approach involves a systematic review of literature tracing the evolution of narrative forms from oral traditions to the multifaceted digital age, focusing on the increased potential for audience participation and the convergence of various media forms. The results indicate a shift from 'story' as static text to 'storytelling' as a dynamic, interactive act, necessitating the new term 'Storymetaloguing,' which captures the essence of contemporary narratives characterized by their interactivity, multiplicity, and transmediality. As a consequence, ‘Storymetaloguing’ emerges as a more apt descriptor of current narrative practices, especially in light of platforms like the metaverse that facilitate diversified creation and dissemination of stories. Thus, this study can contribute to media and communication discourse by offering a nuanced understanding of storytelling's progression and its implications for future narrative paradigms.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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Bob Boule
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This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
By Design, not by Accident - Agile Venture Bolzano 2024
2 a media technologies
1. Media, space and time Paul Emerson Teusner Flinders University August 2011
2. Media as technology Shape How the medium is used What it is used for Become part of the meaning of the communication Reshape personal and cultural consciousness
3. Harold Innis (1894-1952) Canadian economist Works Empire and communication(1951) The bias of communication(1952) Key idea: Media understood in terms of time-bias or space-bias
4. Time-biased media Physical characteristics: Heavy More durable Not easily produced or reproduced E.g. stone monuments, oral communication Build societies that emphasize Durability of thought & social organisation Across time E.g. local tribes and communities
5. Space-biased media Physical characteristics: Lighter More easily transported More easily produced or reproduced E.g. papyrus, printing, telecommunications Favor cultural values of Space and distance Ideas that change more across time E.g. Empires
6. Marshall McLuhan 1911-1980 Professor of English Literature, University of Toronto One of chief theorists of media in the 1960s and 1970s In a world anxious about the electronic communications revolution, McLuhan provided a way of understanding the cultural impact of those technologies on society.
7. The Gutenberg Galaxy Understanding media The medium is the massage The mechanical bride
8. What does he mean - the medium is the message? 1. The medium of communication, not just the content, is the thing to study Looking at the content of a communication misses the reality that the medium is what makes the difference The medium is the ground, not the figure. It’s the ground that changes people.
9. What does he mean - the medium is the message? 2. If you don’t know the medium, you don’t know the message The form of a communication affects the communication By altering the content, and By favouring particular kinds of messages All content has form and is affected by the dynamics of the form Therefore all communication must be seen as “content-in-form”
10. What does he mean - the medium is the message? 3. The medium is the massage The form of the medium is not neutral – it alters the perceptual habits of its users. The influence is a subtle one – hence it massages change Different media cultures see the world through different “goggles”
11. What does he mean - the medium is the message? 4. The medium affects society as well as the individual Major changes in media lay havoc to what came before New technologies create new human environments, which modify previous environments and previous patterns of individual and social behaviour
12. McLuhan’s four theses Each culture develops its own balance of senses in response to the demands of its environment The different media within a society address and extend particular senses and begin to interact with our senses. Changes of media therefore create a new balance of senses within a society. The extensions of our senses begin to interact with our senses. When the technology of communication change within a society, there is a corresponding change in that culture’s way of perceiving and organising reality.
13. Examples of technology change…. Pre-literate people live in an all-at-once senses world using all senses. This shapes their perception and engagement with their world Literate people live in a culture that is alphabet-oriented, segmented, and favors linear thought, deduction and argument.
14. Mechanized print Reinforced orientation toward uniform objective truth Introduced a segmented cause-effect rational world Prepared us for a mechanical industrial age Suppressed mythic, multi-sensorial “organic” experience Electronic media have broken the monopoly of print and recreated a desire of getting all senses into the act again: aural, oral, tactile, kinetic. Like cubism – seeing things simultaneously from multiple angles
15. Criticisms of McLuhan Technological determinism Media technology are their own animals Consider SCOT
16. Technology and culture Communication as the web of culture Liberties of action Knowledge storage & retrieval How communication positions people in relation to each other Institutions that develop in communication production and transfer Dominant senses and relationships that different media bring into play
17. Walter Ong: Four paradigms of communication cultures Oral cultures Manuscript cultures Print cultures Electronic cultures In practice they are neither discreet nor absolute…
18. Oral culture Significance The fundamental form of human communication The grounding of our cultural being Significant contemporary sub-cultures Recovery in electronic culture?
19. Oral culture Personal presence Multi-sensory involvement Impermanence of sound Reliance on human memory
20. The psychodynamics of orality Sound as power and action – build on the characteristics of sound Focus on the social Devices for structuring memory – repetition, redundancy, memorability Emphasis on conserving the past Focus on the concrete life-world Different concepts of time Importance of narrative
21. The impact of writing Writing’s liberties of action The making permanent of transient speech The externalization of memory The removal of the necessity of personal presence Breaking constraints of space and time
22. Cultural consequences of writing The permanence of communication over distance Permanence of communication over time The accumulation of information over time The distancing of information from people Context-free discourse Individualizing communication The enhancement of abstract reasoning and the possibility of “objective” history The growth of linear logic and organization Changes in sensory balance
23. The social convergence of printing The right social conditions The technology and materials 1221 Chinese invent movable wooden type The means of distribution. Roads and safety
25. 18th–19th centuries –literacy as a cultural phenomenon Improved literacy New economies of production Industrial revolution -> urbanisation, roads Concessions to newspapers, increased competition The surge of science Rise of the novel and literary journals
26. The rise of the author 55 million books published in the 18th century The rise of the author as author The author’s name as a trade mark The author’s ideas as marketable products The author as hero
27. Johnson’s dictionary 1755 The standardisation of language The narrowing of language The construction of “the common reader” The shift from wisdom to information – reading as skimming
28. Social changes of literacy The economics of writing Development of a consumer economy Shift in social power New principles for ordering information – the identification of “culture” and “literature” The development of print logic
29. A-V culture - 1820s onwards Cultural convergence Technological/scientific experiment An expanding view of the world Growth in democratic institutions and thinking The growth of consumer capitalism Colonialism
30. The digital Digital language Reductionism & atomisation Computers Storage & reconfiguration Fibre optics Telecommunications
31. Electronic culture Increased speed of communication Dissolving distance From one-way mediated communications towards interactivity and participation Changes in the nature of text An expanded capacity for access, storage and transfer of information
32. Useful reading Marshall McLuhan, Understanding media Ruth Finnegan, Literacy and Orality: Studies in the technology of communication Walter Ong: Orality and literacy: The technologising of the word Alfred Burns, The power of the written word: The role of literacy in the history of western civilisation Elizabeth Eisenstein, The printing revolution in early modern Europe.
33. Useful reading Barr, T., 2000, Newmedia.com.au: The Changing Face of Australia’s Media and Communications, St Leonards, Allen & Unwin, NSW. Castells, M., 2000, The Power of Identity, Blackwell Publishers, Massachesetts. Mansell and Silverstone, 1996, Communication by Design: The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Negroponte, N, 1996, Being Digital, Hodder and Stoughton, Rydalmere NSW Snyder, I., 1996, Hypertext: The Electronic Labyrinth, MUP, Melbourne. Featherstone, M. and Burrows, R. (eds) Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk, Sage, London, 1995 Jones,S. (ed) CyberSociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community, Sage, Thousand Oaks, 1995 Kramarae, C. (ed) Technology and Women's Voices, Routledge, NY, 1988 Markley, R. (ed) Virtual Realities and Their Discontents, Johns HopkinsUniversity Press, Baltimore, 1996 Porter, D. (ed) Internet Culture, Routledge, London and NY, 1997 Shields, R. (ed) Cultures of the Internet, Sage, London, 1996
Editor's Notes
McLuhanismsGlobal villageThe medium is the massageHot and cool mediaRetribalisationSensory impactMedia extend the sensesHis contributionOne of first in North America to refocus thinking about media away from the content of the communication to the nature of communication as cultural formGave a framework for thinking about media from a broad cultural perspective – media as technology underlies all aspects of human social and cultural experience.Key thought: The medium is the message
“For the content of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind. The effect of the medium is made strong and intense just because it is given another medium as ‘content.’ The content of a movie is a novel or a play or an opera. The effect of the movie form is not related to its program content. The ‘content’ of writing or print is speech, but the reader is almost entirely unaware of print or of speech.” (Understanding media)
1. Each culture develops its own balance of senses in response to the demands of its environmentThe arrangement of media in every society will be different.How we “see” reality is shaped by the culture we are in, the language spoken, the media we are exposed to“The fish is not aware of the water in which it is swimming.”E.g. pre-literate people live in an all-at-once sense world using all sensesLiterate people – alphabet-oriented, linear in their thinking, deduction and argument2. The different media within a society address and extend particular senses and begin to interact with our senses. Changes of media therefore create a new balance of senses within a society.Media are best understood as extensions of the senses: tools for hand, wheel for foot, radio for voice, telephone for ear.New electronic technology extend our nerves and senses in a global embrace, creating a “global village.”3. The extensions of our senses begin to interact with our senses.New technologies create a new balance among the senses – each technology diminishes the capacity to use the sense it extends, and hence change our senses “We shape our tools, and thereafter they shape us.”New technologies diminishes our capacity to use the oldE.g.“Hot media” – those that complete and leave little room for response – eg radio and film“Cool media” – those that invite participation and involvement – eg telephone and television4. When the technology of communication change within a society, there is a corresponding change in that culture’s way of perceiving and organising reality.“The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinions or concepts, but alter sense ratios or patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance. The serious artist is the only person able to encounter technology with impunity, just because he is an expert aware of the changes in sense perception.” (Understanding media)
New technologies don’t impose new cultures
Sub-culturesClassesStreet communities
Social conditions:The RenaissanceThe telescopeThe compassGunpowderRise of a bourgeoisie Chinese lacked reliable source of paper
"The prominent writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were not just literary phenomena, they were often seen as embodiments of national character and traditions; they could be hailed as moral exemplars and feted as social celebrities."
The narrowing of language“..a particular meaning of any word was legitimate only if it could reasonably be derived from a passage in a printed book. No matter how widespread, oral usage alone did not count as ‘real’ English.”
Reductionism and atomisation of digital language: Douglas Rushkoff – entire concepts and languages reduced to 1s and 0s, choices limited by limits of programming
Increased speed of communication Changing the culture of timeDissolving distanceChanging the nature of spaceChanges in the concept and construction of community“As electrically connected, the globe is no more than a village. Electric speed is bringing all social and political functions together in a sudden implosion…Time has ceased, ‘space’ has vanished. We now live in a global village…a simultaneous happening…. The electronic age has sealed “the entire human family into a single global tribe.” Marshall McLuhanFrom one-way mediated communications towards interactivity and participationTowards user-centered controlFrom the producer to the consumerThe dissolving of old producer and institutional boundariesChanges in the nature of textIntegration of the alphabet with the visualFrom singular to multiple meaningChanges in the sensory balance of communicationAn expanded capacity for access, storage and transfer of informationShift in the structures for ordering and consuming informationBreakdown in hierarchical authority structuresChanges in structures of production & distribution