You are a very intelligent teacher and you made emerging technologies an interesting class. I have learned a lot about emerging technology that I never knew before. I find it very interesting and helpful. In order to be successful in the future, my generation needs to know things considering most of our career choices are growing with the technology world. It must be nice to be a teacher of such an important class because this class instills important skills and knowledge we need to know for our futures.

Again, thank you for being an awesome teacher and person.

- Emily Carr

But while businesses, and drone manufacturers especially, are celebrating the opening of the skies to these unmanned aerial vehicles, the law raises new worries about how much detail the drones will capture about lives down below — and what will be done with that information. Safety concerns like midair collisions and property damage on the ground are also an issue.

The development of American privacy law has been slow and uneven; the advancement of information technology has not. The result is a widening chasm between our collective and individual capacity to observe one another and the protections available to consumers and citizens under the law.

What type of education level or degree is required for your choice of career?

- It depends on how much money I want to make. It’s gernally a B.A. (preferably higher)

What type of classes or training, internship, apprenticeship or practice would you normally take to get to this level?

- English, Communications, Literature and CORE classes. You would intern at a local paper or school.

Where did you get that information from?

- Beareu of Labor Statistics- www.bls.gov

What type of skills are required to use, operate or upgrade the emerging technologies in your field?

- Word processors, computer skills, typing, etc.

How would work be done differently if the technology did not exist? What would be done differently?

- Everything would be done differently. Instead of using computers, typewriters would be used. Instead of using high-tech printers, older printers from the 18th century would be used.

Describe the work condition. How the technology is used without the technology mentioned?

-The office enviroment in general.

What is the salary range for people who work in your work field of interest? Where did you get this information?

- On average, journalists would make around $1,202.165 a week. - www.journalism.about.com

• www.bls.gov
• www.journalism.about.com
• www.journalism.careers.com

futurejournalismproject:

As many traditional businesses have done before it, Associated Press digs in to protect its core business from disruption in a digital age:

The Associated Press on Tuesday took aim at Meltwater, a company that offers a paid clipping service to clients including the U.S. Department of Homeland…

dronejournalism:

I ask you: Is drone trespassing new legal ground or old ground viewed in new ways? Are drones a new form of trespassing or do old rules apply? Do property owners have the right to shoot down a drone over their property? Is there a legal argument to be made for the people who shot down this drone, who apparently knew it was going to be used for a purpose they disagreed with or even presumably felt threatened by? Are there free speech implications of activist drone usage? These are interesting days we are living in. Hat tip to The Mental Munition Factory.

futurejournalismproject:

Google’s announced via their European Public Policy Blog that they’ve teamed up with France’s Le Monde to train Tunisian journalists:

In a single, magnificent moment, journalists in Tunisia liberated themselves from the shackles of censorship. They no longer were forced to regurgitate government propaganda and finally could write what they wanted. Instead, they were confronted with the challenges of freedom.

We are teaming up with the prestigious French newspaper Le Monde to help tackle this crucial challenge. Six Tunisian journalists are coming to Paris to work for three months in the Le Monde newsroom. The journalists will help cover daily news and the upcoming French Presidential election. Our hope is that they then will return home with new skills that will serve to construct a new, free but responsible professional press in Tunisia…

…At Google, we are aware of the need to work with publishers to smooth the transition not only from oppression to freedom, but from analogue to digital distribution. We are sponsoring a series of digital journalism prizes with Institut de Sciences Politiques, the International Press Institute in Vienna and the Global Editors Network in Paris. We also are the proud backer of Reporters Without Borders’ annual Netizen of the Year award.

Semantic Web and Grid Computing could both have negative and positive effects on the journalism industry. Semantic Web can provide online journalists with more access to information needed in order to write whatever article they’re working on. It is also very efficient and manageable for journalists to use. The negative effects that come along with Semantic Web and journalism are other people that decide to block a certain person from viewing content on the web; journalists need every bit of information they can get in order to conduct a sensible article. Also, journalists need the freedom of writing or stating whatever they like in their articles, “ …could put people on the same level of objects” shows that journalists might not be able to have the creative freedom to post whatever they want if they will be treated like ‘objects’. Grid Computing can connect a journalist in New York City to another person with important information all the way in the sticks of India. It would make it easier to communicate with other people and easier to transport files or data to other people. A negative effect of Grid Computing and the journalism industry is lack of privacy. A journalist needs to keep their work as secret as possible before it is leaked to the public. It’s important to have privacy when interfering with the web or other people. Semantic Web and Grid Computing both have positive and negative effects on the future journalism industry. It is just a matter of time before these two emerging technologies prove us either right or wrong.

1.       My primary career choice that I have selected for Emerging Technologies is journalism.

2.       Three emerging technologies that have been identified in my career choice are:

a.       Drone Journalism is an important aspect to the emerging technologies dealing with journalism. The drone is a small device that literally flies in the air and takes pictures and videos of situations happening in real time. This gives journalists almost a “birds-eye-view” of what is going on. The drone experiment started from a Polish Activist; he built this drone to film what police actions during a petition in Warsaw.

To learn more about this new technology click on: http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/jan/13/drones-coming-soon-sky-near-you/

b.      There are more and more journalists that use the internet as a resource for editing and publishing their articles. The New York Times has collaborated with other word processors and created a new tool called ICE (Integrated Content Editor). This editor allows the writers to track what has been changed to their work.

To learn more about this new technology click on:

http://ptsefton.com/2010/05/14/ice-and-word-processor-html-interop-the-ugly-uglier-ugliest-2.htm

c.       Our smart phones in general are a great tool for on-the-go journalists or writers. Apps like The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and easy access internet are very efficient if journalists want to keep updated on an important story or event; for example, if they are working on an important article about SOPA, their New York Times app will keep them updated by the minute on what is going on with it.

3.       The drone is simply a flying video/camera that records events. It is an emerging technology because it is very futuristic and will change journalism for the better. The current status of this technology is still being used in experiments in labs. It can be related to video cameras and/or cameras. Potential uses for the drone can be proof for what happens. You can learn more by clicking the link above labeled “onthemedia”.

4.       There is a new word processor called ICE that The New York Times helped created; ICE is an easier way for online journalists to track what has been changed or edited in their articles. The status of this technology is complete; you can easily download it. This can be related to basic word processors like Microsoft Word or Gmail. I got my information from an online article; view it by clicking on the link above.

5.       Smart phones are an easy way for journalists to keep updated. Journalists can download apps that keep them in real time and have easy access to the World Wide Web. Smart phones are related to desktop computers.

wetheurban:

THE APPLE IPAD 3 COMING IN MARCH?

It’s that rumor time of the year again! New rumors about the third generation Apple iPad have just surfaced!  The release date is apparently set for March 2012. Bloomberg reports that manufacturers of the device would like to reach full capacity for the iPad 3 in February.

 It will have a quad-core CPU (as opposed to the dual-core A5 found in iPad 2) as well as a “high-def” screen. The new display is capable of greater resolution than the current version, with more pixels on its screen than some high-definition televisions. It also makes sense looking at history that they will release an Ipad 2S with an upgrade in specs only. Hmm..

futurejournalismproject:

CES 2012: A Gallery of Camera and Lens Guts

CES gives us a look into the electronic entrails of some new gear. The above image is of the Panasonic Lumix GX1.

Check out other camera and lens innards at Popular Photography.