Hello, my name is Shaun Nicholson. This is my last semester at SUNY Empire State College. I am pursuing my Bachelor in Science degree, majoring in Cultural Studies with a concentration in Communications in Media. I am an avid, and mentally and physically committed bowler. I bowl all the time, and want to become a Professional Bowler in the future. When I am not bowling, most of the time I am playing video games. Video games are my favorite media. They have been a part of my life ever since I was young, and I can play them for hours because of the content they have and the positive experiences I have playing them. Video Games also contribute to Media Art for their graphics, design and content. Combining my big personal interest in Video Games and having them being my favorite Media Art, and how popular Video Games are becoming in the media made this a perfect blog topic, and a perfect Final Media Arts Project.
This is my blog for my Media Arts course at SUNY Empire State College. This blog’s content is centered around my Media Arts Project, which is going to be on a Let’s Play/Digital Story video for a video game. The blog contains important assignments that are completed for my Media Arts course at Empire State College. The assignments include learning activities, content from discussion forums, and other course information that goes through the production stages and help me complete for my Media Arts Final Project.
Ethics Statement
With regards to WordPress, I am the only one responsible for the content and information that is published on the posts of this blog. All of the posts that are created using WordPress are original and unique to me, Shaun Nicholson. The posts that are produced and developed are also copyrighted under my name. I use my username shaunnicholsonmediaarts to demonstrate that I am the content creator the WordPress blog and the source of information behind the posts that are incorporated with it. This Media Arts blog, the blog posts and the content are solely for educational purposes of Empire State College for my Media Arts course only, and are in no way used for personal or monetary gain. This blog is open for the public to view, but is mainly created for my classmates in the Digital Storytelling course to see. Comments are greatly appreciated and the comment section is also open to the public.
I am experienced enough in blogging to understand that I will only do good on this blog, cause no harm, have control over what is good and bad to post on this blog, and speak truthful content and information on this blog. Any outside information I use will receive the proper credit where it is due. I will respect copyright and attribute original authors for those outside source by including MLA-style formatting, in-text citations where using/sharing their information, and provide a “Works Cited” section at the bottom of the blog post to credit those authors.
I use only the safest and most reliable social media sites and Web 2.0 tools for distributing and exhibiting my work. I understand that security risks are a part of technology, and will stay up-to-date with policies. I will also stay protected by safety measures on my computer, and only use the sites and tools that the majority of people use themselves.
Regarding property and copyright claims, I understand that I cannot and will not use content and information produced by others without their permission. Under the Copyright Act of 1976, legally I am able to use YouTube and other media sources and elements provided by the Internet for educational purposes These are online sources open to the public and are organizations that do not make profit for providing their content.
On my blog, I will be providing a link to my YouTube video on my Video Game Let’s Play for my Final Media Arts Project. YouTube is owned by Google, and I have read and understood the YouTube and Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policies. Since this blog is owned and hosted by WordPress, I have also read and understood their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
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WordPress – Privacy Policy: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
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Google/YouTube – Privacy Policy: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
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