The podcast was done for the Entertainment Computing module at UClan, it was made by me (Daniel Hill), Andrew Telford, and Kieran Liptrot.
The initial ideas that we had for the podacast where about different personality changes on the internet and how these are often very different to how people would react or act in real life, in places such as forums, instant messaging, social networking sites such as myspace and facebook, and comments on sites such as youtube. We also decided to cover how people communicating over the internet or on mobile phones is degrading the understanding of the English language, and teaching children bad grammar and spelling from an early age.
In the changes in personality section we tried to cover some of the most common forms of personality change, such as trolling, which is when people say aggressive or abusive things to get a reaction from someone, or merely misinform people because they think it's funny. We also tried to cover people trying to act more intellectual, or superior than what they really are, a good example would be some comments on youtube, for things that someone has made or have performed in, people will often criticise it unjustly, instead of giving it useful
constructive criticism.
The initial ideas that we had for the podacast where about different personality changes on the internet and how these are often very different to how people would react or act in real life, in places such as forums, instant messaging, social networking sites such as myspace and facebook, and comments on sites such as youtube. We also decided to cover how people communicating over the internet or on mobile phones is degrading the understanding of the English language, and teaching children bad grammar and spelling from an early age.
In the changes in personality section we tried to cover some of the most common forms of personality change, such as trolling, which is when people say aggressive or abusive things to get a reaction from someone, or merely misinform people because they think it's funny. We also tried to cover people trying to act more intellectual, or superior than what they really are, a good example would be some comments on youtube, for things that someone has made or have performed in, people will often criticise it unjustly, instead of giving it useful
constructive criticism.
The final point that we talked about, which was bad grammar being learned due to text speak, I think that this is a real problem in today's society. Kids from an early age are using mobile phones and messaging programs to talk to each other, and as understandable as it is to use some abbreviations whilst texting, due to the fact that longer text's cost more money, kids are starting to use this in everyday life instead of where it makes sense. There have been many cases of children using text speak in exams, instead of correct English. You could argue though that this is the way that the English language is evolving, as you should note that it has changed immensely since Shakespeare's day. Whether this is a positive or not, is yet to be seen, and I'm sure many English teachers across the country, would be very annoyed at the thought of the English language evolving this way.
We each took part in making the Podcast in different respects, Andy made the pictures for the podcast and encoded the podcast to mp4, as I didn't have the tools to do that, I recorded the audio, made the RSS feed, and put the images together in Windows Movie Maker with some help from Andy and Kieran, Kieran helped with ideas, and made useful comments about how we where doing things.
In conclusion, I thought making the podcast was surprisingly easy and hastle free, the only pain was getting the RSS feed to work as many of the RSS feed generators didn't seem to work very well, and finding a hosting site big enough to upload the files, as the files ended up being quite large, and most sites have a 5mb upload limit, which was quite annoying. But generally it was quite fun, but not something that I'd want to do in my spare time.
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