The danger of Internet #1 -Hikikomorism and the dissolution of social relashionship

Internet is a media.
A media is not evil in itself however it can have good or terrible consequences...human, economical, sociological or political.
I will try to post different article abount various subject showing the variety of nasty side effects of the web...

Here, we will evoke the problemn of hikikomorism...this word describes originally a japanese phenomenon however, even if this trend is deeply based in the japanese culture, it can easely spread itself all around the world -as it is the case in the United States, Europe or Asia- though this phenomenon is not grounded on the same cause for Japan has its own specificity.
Who is an hikikomori ?

An Hikikomory, is basicly somoene who doesn't want to go out from his home or room. They usualy are young male japanese teenagers...There are various causes to this trend. The basis of this trend is of course psychological troubles which are coming from inside or outside of the family (divorce, bullying at school, pressure of the workplace).
Others facts are to add : parental's lack of authority, spoiled children...
Though this trend is vey specific to japan because of its culture (the very heavy pressure of the school and the workplace over young poeple, the dissolution of the tradition, the culture of the honnor which leads their parents to hide them instead of curing them by an external specialist), we also have to add the very strong connections of kids with Internet and new means of communications.

Even if this japanese trend has some specificities, the main fatcs can be found anywhere else.
We have of course, lots of case in Asia but also in Western countries such as America or Germany. We all know about these kids playing all time Counter Strike and Warcraft untill they die ! Though they are not exactly Hikikomories, they show that this tred is spreading itself progressiveley.
A trend which is developing itself thanks to Internet.
Internet is not a cause of the Hikikomorism, this pathology may exist without Internet. However, Internet made it easier because you don't have anymore to go out in order to earn a living or to do shopping : you can work on internet, meet poeple on internet, earn money on internet and basicaly live in a parallel world on internet.

However : what kind of live is this ?
Generally speaking, the true hikikomory are not earning thei living on Internet : they still depend on their parents...if they earn money, it's through video games (selling accounts on World of Warcraft) and the poeple they meet in those game are never seen in the real life : they have an abstract relashionship...though we should not exagerate the emptines of theses kind of relashionship...but we have to admt that it is difficult to be friend with someone we never have seen !
To conclude, I would say that Hikikomirsm is the last chapter of the dissolution of social relashionship in our contemporary society, a dissolution made possible thanks to the develpoment of the science and the new means of communication. However we should not blame the means of communication themselves : we should blame their nasty consequence over poeple.

MY MOVIE

Hello, here you have an extract of a movie (89') I created in 2005. This extract is in the middle of the movie and is difficult to understand if you havn't seen the others scene. The montage will seem to you very weird...

Tendre chimère extrait
envoyé par _hapooismyfriend_

WEI 2007-2008

Dcouvrez ici la vidéo d'introduction du WEI édition 2007-2008 dont j'ai crée la vidéo ! J'espère que vous aimerez ! En tout cas nous on a aimé !

MAJORA'S MASK VIEW TO A KILL

I like video games amv : here we have a video which mixes Nintendo's Majora's Mask with Duran Duran's music for James Bond View to a Kill. This is so interesting ! Nice shot too the creator ! The music just oesn't fit, however I do like this video game clip !! Good Job !!

internet and the crisis !

Are open source softs a good thing ?

Open source softs are a softwares that anyone can have access to the web. thtey are free but they are not exactly free softwares. Open source softs can me modified by everybody they are not only free but "open". They are not protected by auther rights or producer rights and contribute to build a free and participative internet world. Open source softs my be as good as officials softs. Communities of passionnated fan and hardocers geeks may be just as competitiv as paied employers ! What is more, in the very biggining of computer science, all softwares were open source files ! They were not for sale. Computer were for sale. Not softwares. Free softwares were kind of a selling argument or strategy ! By the way I should say that personally I use open source softs instead replacing word or excel or power point and they're just as good as these.

GOOGLE ON MOBILE

Google is working with HTC and Orange to build a Google Mobile Phone, which could possibly have Google software inside and will therefore be able to do many of the web tasks smartly. The device, article speculates, could go on sale in 2008.

The phone called Androïd, seems great. For the first time we will have a true access to the web with great and efficient application. I will be able to go on you tube and spend all day long over there without any troubles !You may have access to various useful applications such as chatting for instance. The graphical possibilities of this phone are terrific (you have a true little computer) and what is more : you can move yourself in the digital environments without any mouse and interact with your phone thanks to your finger ! You can touch your screen ! Your finger will be recognized !



This item sounds like te new weapon of google to conquest the world. However, google is not alone. Microsoft had the same idea : developping a computer based mobile system in order to develop mobile possibilities. The idea is basicly to produce a mobile which could be able to replace comuter or to be as good as a computer for many applications. This is linked or at least intertwined with the new market of very low computer costs. In stead of buying a computer and a mobile you may have both.

No matter which mobile or computer will win, this market, this new mobile is a new chapter of the media convergence global trend and is thefore very satisfying.

Obama has launched his SMS communication strategy to expand its grassroots network and organize volunteers for events. You can also get Obama themed wallpapers and ringtones. His rival, the senator Hillary Clinton also initiated this strategy.

There are few examples of tactics adapted from this strategy.

"SMS voters at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 tradeshow in San Francisco have “elected” Barack Obama the next President of the United States" (found on mobile marketer website). This mini election gave the choice between Obama and his pal MC Cain and lead the democrate to the victory for Obama captured 56.2 percent of the CTIA vote, which was conducted in September 10-12.

Yet, this event is not an isolated case : we have here a video showing that thousands of poeple during a Barack Obama show are sending messages to convince poeple to vote or subscribe for Barack Obama or at least to join him. These images are amazing : we can see an entire stadium shouting and sending sms for Obama.

Obama has also decided to announce his vice president Joe Bidden, Delaware senator, by the 23 of August through sms. His crew sent 2,9 billions of sms (accuording to Nielson Mobile). Accuording experts, this is the most impressive and massive SMS campaing ever in United States. However, the name of the vice president had been published in the press before the official SMS campaign.

There are many reason to these strategies : 1° mobile are becoming the main way to contact poeple for more and moire poeple are using mobile instead of home line telephone 2° this mean is very adequate to the new communication strategy which is used in the usa : using a buzz phenomenon which spread itself from group to group and poeple to poeple (almoast by words of mouth one could say) to convey political messages in addition to classical means (tv, radio, newspaper) -the buzz means using groups or community 3° it's a mass communication strategy, however, poeple may feel more concerned about this message for it is a way to participate and to act in person, to feel concerned but as a human being, not as a passive information consumer.

Something nice I have done last week : my memo

I started to work on my memo whose subject is AMV. I study the relashionship between official licence such as live movies, comics japanese animes, video games and the non official and unlawful use internet user make of them.
As I have already explained it, an AMV is made of animated movies and series. However you can found AMV which are taken of video games. I found a nice one about the video SIMS which is very rare because the SIMS is not a narrative game.
In order to compensate this lack of narration, the auther tried to imitate the narrative construction of clips who mixes danses and fiction.
I also like the music who is adequate to a such clip.
Here I put a link to you tube (god bless you tube) in order you can discover LALALA' SIMS (that's the amv's name):

An application that I like

This is difficult to choose one. There are so plenty of useful appplications on the net. This is the reason why I would like to talk about something I appreciiate mor personnaly. I am passionnated with cinema and animation. One of the aplication I appreciate is virtual Dub. It's a programm which can convert all your movies/episode into editing files. Thanks to these files you can create little movies called AMV (Animated Motion Video) thanks to a movie editor such as Adobe Premiere. You also need a programm to convert you mp3 into wav files in order to use in your "montage".
Here you have an example of what you can do with this stuff. The author mixed two mangas with a james bond music in order to recreate the james bond universe with other characters (City hunter and Sailor Moon). It's just amazing !!