Blog 1 (Marc)

In L&I Sci I have found numerous discussions and topics extremely interesting to myself and brought up many good debates.  Each of the weekly discussions really forced me to think about my answer fully and many people would comment and add or ask me to prove why I think a certain topic or idea.  The topics that we have discussed has brought up points and different views that I wouldn’t normally think of because I have my personal thought about it and don’t see much else. The topic that really caused some good debate was illegally downloading music. There were many different views that were brought up and also the reading for that week was good.  Ess brought up good ideas in chapter three in the section labeled the ethics of copying.  The section discussed copy write laws in different countries and the actually laws there are against it.

There are times in the course were I don’t fully understand the question. We have two good books to reference to when I need help understanding something.  The books do a good job with explaining the topic and giving firm, clear examples of how to apply the subject to real life.  For example, during week three and moral objectivism. In the book it did a good job describing it and then relating it to an example of professional sport players.  Even if I still wouldn’t understand it, there are numerous people in the class that through the discussion board I would understand the meaning of a term.

This past week I really enjoyed getting into some good talks about illegally downloading music, movies and software. I really like to hear what people have to say about this topic and its fun to discuss why I think the way I do and for other people to come back and say they agree but they also believe in something else.  In Ess it states, “We – especially young people – are thoroughly interconnected through, and thereby saturated with, what are sometimes called “New Media” or digital media.“ (Ess 6). This is saying no matter what age or where you are from we are connected to this life of digital media. There is much to learn about this lifestyle and much to understand about how all the digital media is applied in our lives and this class is showing us how we can apply this knowledge later in life.