Hi there, me name is Meesha and I’m a second year transfer student from Vancouver. I recently obtained an Associates Degree in General Arts, and I’m looking to expand my knowledge and experiences. As of now I’m in Computer Science but that may change in the near future to possibly Social Science. I have loved computers and the internet ever since I started playin’ around on my dad’s old windows 95 on dial up, which has transformed into me using social networking sites, art sharing sites, some light gaming, and also being glued to my smartphone. I’d like to think of myself as an average internet user; somewhere in between an avid blogger-hardcore-gamer-skilled-hacker-software-engineer-social-media-addict who can fix blue screens of death and record their own music to sell online; and someone who is computer illiterate… is that too broad a spectrum? (The possibilities are virtually endless) I am also an amateur photographer, love movies, am a vegetarian, and enjoys a good cup of coffee every morning.

The topics I would like to cover this term are how file sharing affects us in the way we communicate, how it affects copyrights, plagiarism/theft, and how we have come to expect the ways in which we obtain “things” and information online; as well as privacy issues, not only in Canada or the US, but globally, personally… How far do each of our digital footprints go? Can they ever be permanently removed? Or will they haunt us forever, allowing family/friends, strangers, or even governments to pre-judge and catalog us?

(Another topic I’m a little interested in discussing might be where TV shows and movies are going in our society’s online trend world? Will people still go out to theatres to watch movies and record shows on their pvr’s? Or will the way we are entertained in that sense also transform? How?)