This week’s lecture looked at Cyberpolitics and a tutorial exercise was done using Microsoft Excel.
During the lecture we saw that there is a digital divide in the world today. Not everyone has a computer or access to the internet. This leads into the question of what is On-line Democracy? Is cyberdemocracy the rule of the majority of current users of the technology or the idealistic view of representing all possible users?
We also looked at how computer hackers started off by trying to make free telephone calls in the 1960’s, which lead to hackers trying to break into other computer systems for the fun and intellectual challenge of it.
In the tutorial task we were required to explore spreadsheets. This was not a task that I felt comfortable with. I have used Excel before in maths assignments at high school, but it always took a long time to complete, especially when I had to create graphs for the first time.
I didn’t have any problems with exercises 1 to 3 as I had previous experience in entering data, making up formulas and creating graphs. But I had not used the Macro function before and had difficulties trying to use it at first. I think it can be a valuable tool when presenting documents that require certain aspects to be separated.
During the lecture we saw that there is a digital divide in the world today. Not everyone has a computer or access to the internet. This leads into the question of what is On-line Democracy? Is cyberdemocracy the rule of the majority of current users of the technology or the idealistic view of representing all possible users?
We also looked at how computer hackers started off by trying to make free telephone calls in the 1960’s, which lead to hackers trying to break into other computer systems for the fun and intellectual challenge of it.
In the tutorial task we were required to explore spreadsheets. This was not a task that I felt comfortable with. I have used Excel before in maths assignments at high school, but it always took a long time to complete, especially when I had to create graphs for the first time.
I didn’t have any problems with exercises 1 to 3 as I had previous experience in entering data, making up formulas and creating graphs. But I had not used the Macro function before and had difficulties trying to use it at first. I think it can be a valuable tool when presenting documents that require certain aspects to be separated.
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