Do not watch if you are sensitive to graphic picture's


Very graphic and terribly sad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwWJZ1MiApw&feature=related

Sports bra saves woman...........

An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern Germany said Monday.

Berchtesgaden police officer Lorenz Rasp said that he helped lift 24-year-old Jessica Bruinsma of Colorado to safety by helicopter on Thursday after she attracted the attention of lumberjacks by attaching her sports bra to a cable used to move timber down the mountain.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25333829/

The violation of our privacy due to media

Dr. Gary Gumpert stated that we live in a complex world where we depend on the other for information and we do it by relying on communication technology. However this technology is used sometimes against our human rights. For instance, the government developed the extremes ability to watch the other. In the U.K. due to fear of terrorism 4.2 million cameras watch 6 million people. The question that pops into the mind is: How does this relate to privacy, free expression, the right to be alone, the trust one place in his/her leaders, governments? It seems like it's the invasion of our privacy even if they do it for security reasons. Besides surveillance cameras are another matter. Usually they are used by police departments in order to collect information. They do it privately and one is never free from observation. It's like as if there was a transperent curtain on all of us. So, from all these it is perceived that technology hinders our privacy considerably without our knowing. It's because the digitalization has led to the manipulation of the mankind.

Electronic reality
Dr. Gary Gumpert focused on the idea of the trust in media in his lecture. The role of technology in our life is changing its dimension. It is entering the limits of people's privacy in addition to its advantages. He questioned if the media with the help of technology tells the truth to the audiences. He mentioned about the protection the government provides with the exchange of freedom. The more we ask for protection the more we lose from our freedom because technology makes the government able to watch people without their realization. Dr. Gumpert calls this system as “social contract”. This contract depends on the bridge of trust. However, the question is who we should or can trust? This contract contradicts with the idea of privacy. In developed countries such as UK and USA, technology has almost eliminated privacy. Satellites are watching people. They are like under surveillance as Dr. Gumpert called.
He supported his arguments with a slide show and showed how live broadcastings are actually not real. There is a considerable amount of time between the moment someone talks in a live program and the moment it reaches you. Meanwhile, there can be made many chances in the live program which we think is absolute truth. Live screens can be delayed or stopped with machines which he calls “magical machines”.
Briefly, he questioned what we see may not be the truth. Technology plays a great role in this irony. Dr. Gumpert underlined that, it has reached its point to violate human rights for privacy in some countries. It makes us feel scary for the future.


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