3.1 An Encyclopedia or a Newspaper?

This week, I have edited a page on the wikipedia.org for the assignment. As I am interested in examining the progress of Hong Kong’s copyright protection after the handover for my final project, I went to the “Hong Kong copyright law” page of the Wikipedia. I was surprised by how immature and unorganised this page [...]

2.3 Summary of Presentation

This week, we discussed about “news feeds” in our new media class.
News feeds allow people to read news from different news organisations easily on a browser, through a format called XML and the RSS system.
As pointed out by Janice in her blog, RSS is still a new technology which is not very well-known to many. [...]

2.2 News Feeds for Final Project

Topic: Hong Kong’s copyright issues after the handover
News feeds from the HKSAR government:
What’s New from Office of the Telecommunications Authority
Law & Order
These news feeds help me to keep track on the recent development of copyright laws and technologies that might be relevant to uploading and downloading software.
News feeds from The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
General [...]

2.1 Have Your Own Personalised Newspaper!

As we are living in the age of internet, most of the news organisations publish news on their websites. You might ask, “what’s the difference between reading the news on newspaper and on the internet?” Well, internet offers many more new features to complement traditional news reporting than merely providing a new platform for publication. [...]

1.2 Assessment of Copyright Protection After 1997

For the final project, I think it would be a good idea to look at the progress of copyright protection in Hong Kong
since the handover 10 years ago.
Copyright issues have drawn increasing attention from the public since the handover,
particularly because of the increasing popularity of the internet. People can easily upload
and download different kinds of [...]

1.1 Journalism in the Age of Internet

We are undoubtedly in the era of internet as internet has shaped our everyday lives. As a journalism student, I can’t help keep thinking about the risks and opportunities the internet might bring to my future career as a journalist.
Indeed, internet has already changed the way how most of the traditional news organisations operate. Many [...]

My first post for New Media course

Hi. I am building a blog for the new media course. This is my very first post on my very first blog. Hope you’ll enjoy reading it.