1. Stephen Stockwell's first academic article to be published was in the Legal Service Bulletin under the title of 'Kuranda police shooting'.
- Stockwell, S 1981, 'Kuranda police shooting', Legal Service Bulletin, vol. 6, pp.48-49, viewed 10th August 2011 via HeinOnline.
2. The character Govenor Slugwell was introduced through the Flaming Carrot Comics. He made an appearance in issues 7, 10 and 11.
- Burden, B 1985, 'When the shoes aren't worth the shine', Renegade press, no. 7, p.p. 3 - 31. Viewed 11th August 2011 via. Trial Database undergound and independent comics.
3. The news article I found displaying the latest medical thinking was from The Sunday Telegraph in London on 15th May 2011. 'Experts' in Europe say that wifi and mobile phones are putting pupils at risk due to the recently raised concerns that electromagnetic radiation emitted by devices can be carcinogenic.
- Gray, R 2011, 'Pupils at risk from wi-fi and mobile phones: European experts say that devices should be banned from schools. Report also highlights concerns about safety of baby monitors. Call for ban on wi-fi in schools', The Sunday Telegraph [London, UK], p.1, viewed 12th August 2011 via ProQuest.
4. In the 1982 draft script of Bladerunner Leons reaction is:
"Leon looks shocked, surprised. but the needles in the computer barely move. Holden goes for the inside of his coat. But big Leon is faster. His laser burns a hole the size of a nickel through Holden's stomach. Unlike a bullet, a laser causes no impact. It goes through Holden's shoulder and comes out of his back, clean as a whistle. Like a rag doll he falls back nto the seat. Big slow Leon is already walkng away, but he stops, turns, and with a little smile of satisfaction fires through the back of the seat."
"Leon looks shocked, surprised. but the needles in the computer barely move. Holden goes for the inside of his coat. But big Leon is faster. His laser burns a hole the size of a nickel through Holden's stomach. Unlike a bullet, a laser causes no impact. It goes through Holden's shoulder and comes out of his back, clean as a whistle. Like a rag doll he falls back nto the seat. Big slow Leon is already walkng away, but he stops, turns, and with a little smile of satisfaction fires through the back of the seat."
- Hampton, F. Webb, D. Roland, K 1982, 'Blade Runner', (script), Warner Brothers, Los Angeles, CA. Viewed 11th August 2011, via. Trial database American film scripts online.
5. Soukup states that Ong says. "a society that is given so much to the use of diagrams and to the manoeuvring of objects in space... should at the same time develop means of communication which specialise not in sight but in sound"
- Soukup, P 2004, ‘Communication Research trends’, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture, vol. 23, pp. 23.
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- Soukup, P 2004, ‘Communication Research trends’, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture, vol. 23, pp. 23.
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IRC, or Internet Relay Chat, is a software which provides the means for one person to type a message in real time to one or more other internet users, and almost instantaneously, it materialises on all the monitors of those plugged into the same transmission.
But how did someone use it? Well, most obviously, one needed an internet connection. Coupled with this, an IRC user would have access to a "software package that allows users to connect to the IRC server's special computers reserved for interactive conversations." (Simpson 2000, p.18). There were various packages available, with the most popular on PC's being mIRC, a shareware that puts IRC servers and advanced IRC features only a click away. It was first created by Jarrkko Oikarinen in 1988 when he was asked to replace a program called MUT (MultiUser Talk) on a BBS (bulletin board system) called OuluBox. Inspired by Bitnet Relay Chat he created IRC in August of that year, date unspecified (Oikarinen 2005, p.1). As is developed it not only allowed people to create or join multi user conversations, but also private ones, enabling you to interchange between more than one at a time.
This system in it's heyday was popular with educators, experts and people wishing to collaborate on a myriad of subjects over long distance. Educators particularly found it useful for interacting with students, and for students to link up to discuss and work on projects. As it became more popular, multi person chat rooms such as this made way for fantasy world games to spark up, with textual ways to communicate physical realities increasing (Reid 1999, p.399). Various splits were made from IRC, causing disagreements among the main managers and eventually it was left behind amongst the explosion of internet chat forums, especially MSN. Their peak was at 100,000 users.
Bibliography
- Oikarinen, J 2005, History of IRC, viewed 12th august 2011, < http://www.irc.org/history_docs/jarkko.html>
- Reid, E 1999, Electropolis: 'Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat: Constructing Communities', High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace, viewed 12th August 2011, <http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=xI_Um3dTTeYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA397&dq=%22Electropolis:+Communication+and+Community+on+Internet+Relay+Chat:+constructing+communities&ots=iVH8VthS7m&sig=ynq9nlP4QTO7etB5q5GMh7xcswk#v=onepage&q=%22Electropolis%3A%20Communication%20and%20Community%20on%20Internet%20Relay%20Chat%3A%20constructing%20communities&f=false>
- Simpson, C 2000, 'Internet Relay Chat', Teacher Librarian, vol. 28, no. 1, p.18-20, viewed 12th August 2011 via ProQuest
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