May 2nd Homework

Copyright and the law

- Copyright: A law that allows any originators to protect their original works so that other people can't copy them.

- Copy Free: A product that can be distributed without having any copyright licenses.

- Trade Mark: A word, words, or symbol that is legally registered or established to represent a company or product

- Creative Commons: A non-profit company that collects and distribute copy free products. 

- Royalty free: The right to use copyrighted materials and intellectual without paying royalties, usually relates to music.

- GNU licensed: A software that collects free software and distribute them.

- Public Domain: A state of belong or being available to the public.

Copyrighted = Reliable
Copy free = ?

Checking Your Sources

Steps on how to check a video to see if it is a hoax or not.

1) Watch the video.
2) See if the person making the video is asserting any of the facts.
3) Research on who is the creator of the video, when did they post the video and see what is their reasons to make the clip, did they achieve their goal?

4) Crosscheck the key facts of the video to proof if the information they give you is biased or not
5) Determine if the video uses any of the propaganda technique. 

April 25th 2012 Homework

•Have you had a look on various sources to find out what Marc (Marc3pax)does?

-Yes, I had looked on various sources to find out what Marc does, but there are not much information on what he does except that he is a gay right activist( according to himself). Marc uploaded only 1 video on Youtube and he has no contact information nor website except for his only email.

•How does this video relate to the flotilla movement?

- This video is related to the flotilla movement because according to Marc, he tried to be part of the movement but got rejected from the protest. So this guy began to research on the leaders of the movement and found out that one of the leader, Hamas, is opposed to homosexual rights. 

•Is the video objective?

- I don't think this video is objective or based on facts. Since I have a feeling this video is a biased because basically the guy only talks about Hamas being opposed to human rights and shutting down human right office, and how they don't let him join the movement because he is fighting for gay right.

•Is there evidence supporting Marc3pax’s findings?

- In the video, Marc showed us some pictures and news articles to proove some of his points, but not all, some of his points were not supported by documents. I think the points that Marc has that was supported is that Hamas is the leader of the Palestian side and all that. The things that I think were Hamas going oppose against homosexual rights and shutting down human right offices.

Flotilla Protests

Who could report on the Flotilla Protests:
- Protestors/ Free Gaza Movement
- Israeli Army/ Government
- Israeli media
- Palestinians Citizens
- United Nation
- American Government
- Egyptian Government
- Egyptian Media
- Israeli Citizen
- Palestinian Government
- Hamas
- Palestinian Media
- International Media ( foreign journalists)

Most biased sources:
- Palestinian Citizens
- Palestinian Government.
- Palestinian Media
- Israeli Media
- Israeli Government
- Protestors/ Free Gaze Movement
- Hamas
- Israeli Citizens

Unbiased sources:
- United Nations
- International media

Undecided:
- American Government. 

Kony 2012 Letter

Project Review Word Cloud

When I look at the word cloud, there are not many keywords on it, so I think fix my project review by adding more keywords. Although when I look over my Project Review again, there were keywords that had been drop out in order to make the word cloud. But I will try to fit more keywords so it would show up when I try to make the word cloud again.