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media compression

For this week I learned about media compression which I have never really thought about before or have never came across this topic before. I have learned that media compression is uploading a video in the correct format and size depending on the website and size of video. The aim is to essentially make the file smaller whilst containing the quality of the video the main four methods of using compression are frame, colour, picture, sound. there are two types of compression that occur theses are lossy which is when some information that isn't relevant is lost. And then there's lossless which is the opposite its where every information in the sile must maintain in the file and cannot be removed. This technique is also applies to audio compression with lossy and lossless as in the video "what you lose when you compress music to mp "in this video it demonstrates the lossy method in the case where as some of the audio has been cut but it is unnoticeable to the public as we...

active reading

  For the reading task for week number 3 I had to read about study  skills. The   first  two passages  are from the website “theopenuniversity.com”  this website  had  some   interesting  useful tips and t ricks that I will  be  encountering over my time in college  and further into the future . In the first passage it was talked about the importance of understanding and knowing w hat and why you are reading the text and what you are going to gain from reading. This is do ne  by using a series of techniques  the first technique is skimming over texts before diving into reading it  all. I  myself always do this as I find it helps me gain better knowledge of what  I'm about to get into .  this  is done  by reading any key information first that stand out to you so any headings in bold or any key words that are highlighted.  It is also encouraged to take notes whilst reading and th...

Media ethics

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 After watching four interesting videos on the broad scale of media ethics I was drawn to the parts of the first video that titled "Cambridge analytics scandal explained" in this video they were talking about how the company was basically founded from using hundreds of thousands of peoples data that they took from Facebook. This scandal is very intriguing as I think that this one of the companies that have gotten caught from doing this but there is so many more companies out there trying to get data and also trying to just about stay on the legal side and try and cut as many corners as they can to benefit their company and try get as many consumers to stay with their company one example of this was given in the video "how dark patterns trick you online" this example was the fact when you are subscribed to some websites and companies they will make it as difficult as possible in order for the consumers to cancel their subscription. They do by thinking that consumers ...