Violetta Evsioukova's Blog on Digital enviroments

Evaluative Report January 28, 2010

When I chose Digital Enviroments as my subject in the elctive choices I did not have a clue what that could mean to me as an individual person. I researched quite a bit, and found  that the answers given to me were too vague… When my first class approached I started getting a few clues, and I found them very interresting. There was a question that I asked myself, What is DIGITAL? and that was the first question we were asked, in our first session as students. here was loads of different answers  from everyone,I think everyone was just s confused as I was.We all know what it is, but maybe not the terms of it.I felt pretty clueless. Everyones answers  were right, because Digital can mean different things.

Digital is…the opposite to analogue.Entertainment as news,games and virtual realities.Everything you need, to do in real life you can do dgitally. Mass consoumption. Mass collboration and Globalisation. Social Networking. Banking. Sharing files. Controlling people to a sertain extent ,or maybe fully. Phones, buisnesses and etc…

Digital is so many things.  And therfore it creates a lot of debates and questions. People wonder wether it is  good thing that everything is becoming digital or  bad thing, how it affects them, and where will it all go.

I find those questions quite complicated as there is so much positive things  that come out of it,as  it is with negative things aswell. Ilove the fact that I can have the option before me to make my life easier and to spear some time to be wth my loved ones.I wake up I check my mail, everything  takes seconds to update. I can reply in an instance,I have the choice of phoning, texting , mailing or have a video conference.When I am done, I have some food shopping to do- I go Online. 5minutes later its done, my food will be here half an hour later. I need to check my balance in the bank, after I have done my food shopping, -Done! 2 minutes it took me ,I ave some more time leftover to browse my brain in the mayhem and influences of the internet, then I can clean the house for my family. If I need anything else everything is available for me. I want to take a family photograph  of our family- Great!Ive got a digital camera, which saves me the time and hastle of  printing , ajusting and loosing a memorable event like that. If I want to do something artisic I hae a whole range of software that will make it easier for me, like photoshop, illustrator and many moore!

All of this is such a great breaktrough and it all happened during a short space of time ,something like ten years? In the old days, the analogue days it could takesomething like 20,30 years, now everything is is becoming accessible for us to ue, ad it ll happens very quicly, everyday almost, there is some new technology that is coming out on to the market. Some people take the use of technology to their advantage, whilst others are more oldfashioned about these things and simply not bothered about it at all.

In my opinion people should embrace the digital technology that surrounds us, but also show  awareness of the “bad” experiences that you would like to avvoid, like fraud and all of the other negativity. Its like in real life- you wouldnt want to be ran over by a truck , therfore you follow the green light when its green  and red when its red, and on top of it, you look to the sides, there can always pop up a dinkdriver  around the corner-therfore you always need to be aware.