Blog 15- Wikipedia posts

Wikipedia name: Kat081685

This is the conversation I had with the editter of the Wikipedia Phone Mobile site (he included some links to look at if anyone is interested)...
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I'm trying to get more "traffic" on the page I'm currently working on so I have added a brief introduction and a link in order to do so on "Mobile Phone Novels". I'm not sure if this post will stay, but I think that mobile phone users should be aware of such a neat feature on their phone such as novel writing on cell phones. Let me know what you guys think.--Kat081685 (talk) 18:28, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
I reverted your uncited edits per Wikipedia policy. You will have to get into the habit of sourcing any inclusion of content from here on. Please read WP:VERIFY and WP:ORIGINAL at this time. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 22:59, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Well, sorry about that. I see your point. Therefore, I posted my the topic again WITH citation this time. Also, I added factual information. Maybe if you have any ideas for me, you could help me so my stuff doesn't get deleted. I would really appreciate it. Check out the "Mobile Phone Novel" site too if you have time.
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If you scroll down to Blog 12, I have kept a Wikipedia posting log, in which, has all the posts I've made including my disscusions as well as my posts with links to them. They're all dated from newsest post to oldest (so the more you scroll down, the older the post was). I thought it would be easiest to kepp all my posting together in one blog and update the blog.

I made contributions to two different Wikipedia websites. One was "Mobile Phone Novels" http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_novel Where I wrote: [Cell phone or mobile phone novels called keitai shousetsu in Japanese, are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging. Phone novels started out primarily read and authored by young Japanese women, on the subject of romantic fiction such as relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy.[1] However, mobile phone novels are trickling their way to a worldwide popularity on all subjects. Japanese ethos of the Internet regarding mobile phone novels are dominated by false names and forged identities.[2] Therefore, identities of the Japanese authors of mobile phone novels are rarely disclosed. "Net transvestities" are of the most extreme play actors of the sort.[3] Differing from regular novels, mobile phone novels may be structured according to the authors prefrence.[4] If a couple is fighting in the story, the author may choose to have the lines closely spaced and crowded. On the contrary, if the author writes a calm or soothing poem the line spacing may be further apart than normal. Overall, the line spacing of phone novels contains enough blank space for an easy read.] and under the "History" section I wrote: [The first cell phone novel was “published” in Japan in 2003 by a Tokyo man in his mid-thirties who calls himself "Yoshi". [9] ]

My second post was for the "Mobile Phone" Wikipedia website, in order to draw attention to my Wikipedia website (as Prof. Chandler suggested). This site's link is http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phoneshttp://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones
I wrote:
[Usage (TITLE)
A Mobile phone novel or cell phone novels are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging to a website that collects the novels as a whole. [12] In virtual online computer games, readers can put themselves into first person in the story. Cell phone novels create a personal space for each individual reader. Paul Levinson, in Information on the Move (2004), says "...nowadays, a writer can write just about as easily, anywhere, as a reader can read" and they are "not only personal but portable".]

The first post for "Mobile Phone Novels" was not taken down, edited, nor responded to in the discussion page at all. Not even a cricket chirrped. This is most likely because people don't know about phone novels. They've never heard of them before so people aren't looking it up. I mean, it did start in China. I was wondering though..you know how at the Wikipedia homepage, there's the option for all the different languages? Well, is the Wikipedia the same no matter what language you click on? Like if I write about phone novels in English, will someone that does Wikipedia in Chinese be able to see what I posted? I'm just wondering if the Chinese Wikiepdia format has anything more on phone novels since it's so popular over there. hmm..
The second post I made for "Mobile Phones" was deleted and I got a response from some dude in the discussion page. He told me I needed to read some link he posted for me and provide better citations. If you go to the link under the discussion tab and scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll see what we wrote. The title of our discussion is "Mobile Phone Novels" and my name is Kat081685. I think he was upset and having a bad day or something. In all seriousness thoguh, I think he reacted that way because he's probably been working hard on the site for mobile phones and here I come along and add a topic he thinks is irrelevant with bad citations.. so he got angry. Understandable. Buttt I still re-posted the topic with citations corrected and edited my information. I haven't had it taken down, but we'll see.

Blog 14- detailed research plan

Focus: Phone novel awareness

Research question: What are phone novels and where did they come from? Where may phone novels be found? Can I write a phone novel and if so, how? Where would I start? Are phone novels really that different from book novels? Can phone novel writing benefit me as an author? If I did write a phone novel, what are the privacy, copying, and plagrisim rights I have?

Layout: I envision the layout of my project to be visually stimulating particulary to my audience of feamles in their late teens-mid 20s, yet steadily informative. I think the best way to do this would be a linear structure with scrolling and nodes with forward and backward links. For instance, the information I will provide will be in a single, long page with entitled chunks of information. These titles will be outlined in the beginning of the page so users can click on something of interest and be forwarded directly to the information. The nodes show users what the hypertext contains and enables them to get there with no trouble. There isn't a lot of clicking around which means less frustration and the more chance the users will read. I was thinking that I could include portions of examples of different types/styles of Phone Novels as different nodes as well as a direct link to "home" of a Phone Novel site. I want to include images in refrence to phone novel topics (like a man and women kissing and another women in the backround); something like on a cover to a movie that makes you read the back. The user looks at the image and is encourgaed to read because she is interested in the picture, thirsty for more. Another image I could post is an author that had their Phone Novel published. Users will be inspired and think "I could do that". To the right, I want nodes of popular phone novels so users can click and be connected to the phone novel with no problems. A true example is very important so the user has the complete understanding of what phone novels look like. I think that the Linear design is best for my topic because it's the simplest. Users won't have to do a lot of clikcing around, the topics are all right there and titled for easy access/navagation.
So basically, the macro sturcture of my hyertext will be linear with nodes, (linking to popular phone novels, the phone novel website "home", wikipedia definition page, and different titles within the hypertext). Each title contains a "chunk" of information which together makes my essay a whole. There will be an outline of these titles in nodes in the beginning of the hypertext so the information is organized as well as just a click away.

New References:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0UVnGNnU5F8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=keitai+shosetsu&ots=7dkweWUg9Z&sig=H0_ileVGPdb58q9LIuiPctjWGCY#PPR10,M1 Jiefang Daily, 2005. Mobile Phone Novels Cause to Debates: Literature Art or http://www.mgovernment.org/resurces/positivezfinal.pdf (look at pages 44 - 45)

Blog 13- Research plan

Topic: Phone Novels

Audience: late teens-mid 20s; female

Focus: Phone novel awareness

Research questions:

1. What are phone novels and what makes them unique?
2. Why should I care?
3. How can I write a phone novel?
4. Where can I find phone novels?
5. Do I have to be an author to read phone novels?
6. Where do I start?
7. What is the purpose?
8. How can phone novels benefit me?
9. Copyright, plagrisim, and privacy issues.
10. History and development of phone novels.

Information needed:

• general information
• history- where, when, how and even maybe why phone novels started
• directions/where to begin/how to write a phone novel-beginners
• where to find phone novels: list of websites
• saftey, privacy, copying, plagrism issues
• list of "what to do" and "what NOT to do" maybe
• benefits, advantages, and future possabilites of phone novels
• examples of people who were benefited and how
  
  Sources:

1. Goodyear, Dana (of The New Yorker) "I<3 href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_goodyear">http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_goodyear
2. Michael Marshall"A Mobile Phone Novel Read Via a T-shirt" http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/11/a-mobile-phone-novel-read-via.html
3. Katayama, Lisa "Big Books HitJapan's Tiny Phones"
   http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/01/72329
4. Farrar, Lara (for CNN)"Cell Phone Stories Writing New Chapter in Publishing Print" http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/25/japan.mobilenovels/
5. Onishi, Norimitsu (New York Times) "Thumbs Race as Japan's Best Sellers Go Cellular" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html
6. Galbraith, W. Patrick "Cell Phone Novels Come of Age" http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment-arts/view/cell-phone-novels-come-of-age

Blog 12-Reports for interactions on Wikipedia post

My name on Wikipedia is Kat081685...
3/29/09-8:00p.m. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone
I tried to post again under the "Mobile phone" website but added citations this time like the guy wanted. I hope it stays up for awhile. No one has contributed to the "Phone Novel" Wikipediea site or discussion page. I don't know what's going on. I was thinking maybe after I do my hypertext essay, people would take the topic into consederation. We'll see. I'll post again with updates.

Usage (the subtitle I created in "Mobile Phones")
A Mobile phone novel or cell phone novels are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging to a website that collects the novels as a whole. In virtual online computer games, readers can put themselves into first person in the story. Cell phone novels create a personal space for each individual reader. Paul Levinson, in Information on the Move (2004), says "...nowadays, a writer can write just about as easily, anywhere, as a reader can read" and they are "not only personal but portable".

3/23/09 (later that day...)http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mobile_phone#Mobile_phone_novels.21

Someone TALKED BACK!! OMG this was sooo FUNNY! You guys have to go to the "Mobile phone" website on Wikipedia on the discussion page under the subtopic "Mobile Phone Novels" (its the last topic, so just scroll to the bottom) Or you can click on the link above for a direct connection. So this guy, "Lord-something or other" got mad at me!! As expected he took down my post and made a RUDE comment about my "Uncitied sourcing" and how I have to "get use to" doing it a different way. He told me to read some stupid link he posted! What a JERK!!!!!! LOL Anyway, I thought it was really funny. At least someone talked to me. I'm going to try to post it again with PERFECT citations to show him up (after I read his precious link) to show him up. I'll post again soon with results. How exciting!!


3/23/09- (3 p.m.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone#Mobile_Phone_Novel
As Professor Chandler suggested I "antagonized a website to bring traffic" to my website. In other words, I went to the "Mobile Phone" general site (talking about SIM card, phone laws, handsets, etc.) and just added a section on my topic, with of course, a link that brings users right to MY Wiki-site of phone novels. Hopefully, now the people who look up or edit the general "mobile phone" site will also be intrugeed to my mobile phone novel site as well. This is the link to my newest post onm Wikipedia. I also added to the discussion page, explaining what my goal was. We'll see how long it will stay up and if anyone responds this time! My post is all the way down to the bottom entitled "Mobile Phone Novels". It is very short since it's experimental. I will be sure to add more if the post survives a few hours/day. Leave comments if you wanna!!


3/13/09 (1:30pm)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mobile_phone_novel
First post on phone novels. I added to the discussion page, seeking assistance to anyone who may be interested. I identified what I want to do and listed where I will be doing research for the page. I'm not sure if I will get a respose bcause the only person who EVER posted to the discussion page made the post in 2007 for a research assignment. I'm thinking I'm alone on this one, which is fine actually because at least there's plenty of information and stuff I can add since no one else did.

3/13/09 (8:12 p.m.)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_novel
FIRST actual edit post on Wikipedia!!! AND it's still up! YAY!!! Check it out. I even added link for certain words some people may not know or want further information on. I'm so proud! You guys should be able to recognize what information I posted because I used the article "I <3>'''Cell phone''' or '''mobile phone novels''' called ''keitai shousetsu'' in Japanese, are the first [[literary genre]] to emerge from the cellular age via [[text messaging]]. Phone novels started out primarily read and authored by young [[Japanese]] women, on the subject of [[romantic fiction]] such as relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy. However, mobile phone novels are trickling their way to a worldwide popularity on all subjects. Japanese [[ethos]] of the Internet regarding mobile phone novels are dominated by false names and forged identities. Therefore, identities of the Japanese authors of mobile phone novels are rarley disclosed. "Net transvestities" are of the most extreme play actors of the sort. Differing from regular novels, mobile phone novels may be structured according to the authors preference. If a couple is fighting in the story, the author may choose to have the lines closely spaced and crowded. On the contrary, if the author writes a calm or soothing poem the line spacing may be further apart than normal. Overall, the line spacing of phone novels contains enough blank space for an easy read. (SKIP A FEW LINES). Maho iLand is the largest cell phone novel site that carries more than a million titles, mainly novist writers, all which are available for free. Maho iLand provides templates for blogs and homepages. It is visted 3.5 billion times each month. In 2007 98 cell phone novels were published into books. (Under the HISTORY section I added the following) The first cell phone novel was “published” in Japan in 2003 by a Tokyo man in his mid-thirties who calls himself "Yoshi".

3/19/09- WOW I can't believe it but my post is still up! EVERYTHING I posted is still there. I'm really glad because I worked really hard on the wording and trying to make it perfect. Maybe it's because absolutely no one cares about that site and there was barely any information to begin with. LOL. I haven't gotten any response from the discussion page. I'm going to keep checking and if anything changes, I'll make a post.

Blog 11- audience, ideas, and links...

The audience I have in mind for the hypertext essay is young adults and late teens, ages ranging from 17 to 26. My essay will probably be more directed to females, however I am trying to incorporate males if at all possible. With that said, I will be using various images, fonts, and web layout styles which would be appealing to this age bracket. I plan to provide links for topics, words, further reference, and maybe even examples to which I feel is important to know/see/explore relating to phone novels. These links will be interesting enough so they are utilized by my ideal users. My goal is to make awareness of phone novels. Just because in Japan phone novels were popular among young women regarding romantic fiction doesnt mean ONLY young women regarding romance can participate in phone novels. Therefore, I really want my audience to be interested and check it out. I think my site will appeal most to young, novist, writers. A lot of books were published from the phone novel site and sold like hot cakes. Some were even turned into movies! On the other hand, I also think my audience could be readers. People who just want to read, not write. You can browse by topic so that could be something he or she would really enjoy. I read on someone's blog that she is going to divide up pages for diferent topics with a navagation bar at the top. I absolutely LOVE her idea and I totally want to copy. I was thinking I could do one page for "writers" and another for "readers" and then of course the information page and where to find the websites, etc. What do you guys think?

Blog 10- Exploratory writing: focus & plan for hypertext essay

Focus: Phone novels

Research plan:
I went to my local library by my house and found 0 books on phone novels. Granted, the library is not exactly a BIG or new library but I still disappointed. Actually, it was kind of funny because the libriarian didn't even know what I was talking about (and she was Chinese) !! In any event, I have devised a research plan with many options that I think will serve me well. First, I will reread the Wikipedia page on phone novels, maybe something will be useful. Next, I decided to gather information or all kinds to get a more in depth, detailed understanding of my topic. This will help me pinpoint what exactly I want to post on Wikipedia as well as my hypertext essay. To gather this information, I plan to go to Borders or somewhere that has books (like another library or bookstore) and get a few book on my topic. Then, of course, I will further explore the Internet; reading, bookmarking, chats even, and explore the phone novel site itself. I was even thinking about talking to someone who is involved with phone novels to see what he or she has to say. Along the way I will be writing everything down in my notebook for class, priting, and keep track of my sources exactly. It's important to do this because documentation of sources aka citing is vital to any type of research. Plus, you can go back and know where you got what from. These are my first steps to my hypertext essay as well as narrowing down my post(s) for the Wikipedia assignment. If I come up with any other ideas I will post further below and date the new information so no one has to reread this whole thing. Also, I will make a seperate post if I end up talking to a "phone noveler" incase anyone is interested. Let me know if you guys have any suggestions for me and I'll do the same for you!

blog 9- Produsage

This article mainly talks about consumers, distributors, and producers. In today's society the producers are essentially becoming the consumers and the consumers the producers. In an Internet world, the producers, say of a web page, are considered a consumer because they utilize the website themself, thus making he or she a consumer (even if they are the one who created it). Consumers may also be a producer, for instance editors of Wikipedia. Our class will become prodcuers when we post our Wikipedia project. It's that simple to be a producer. Although the idea itself is not difficult, I feel the article was very informative and professional sounding. It seems more complicated than it really is. In produsage, everyone is a contributor with equal acess to information. The preconiditons for produage are affordances, rather are essential in order for it to work. They include, probalistic, equipoteniality, granular, and shared (in a nut shell). What do they mean? In other words, there is a community of users who contribute to solve problems. These problems are not specific but can be anything. Groups then group on these problems and the solution grows off of the contributors. In which, everyone has an equal level of participation and access of information (oppse to a hierachy). Moreover, there is distributed knowledge meaning everyone has a piece of the solution that is put together in a larger whole to solve the "puzzle". The more produsage, the better because the more solutions and input possible. These concepts relate to social networking sites in the fact that everyone has a say; it's open participation. Wikipedia as mentioned earlier, phone novels, even facebook and myspace. The famous "Tom" although created myspace therfore a "producer" participates, he has a page and sneds messages to you, posts,etc. and therefore he is a "consumer". We utilizing the myspace are "consumers" however, are also "producers" because without the people making the pages there wouldn't be a "myspace". By creating a page, you became a "producer". There are lots of social networking sites today that use this "everyone is a bee working in a bee hive" concept. In which, what everyone does matters and everyone is equal. I liked this article, it was really interesting. I never really thought about all this before but I can totally see Brun's point. I wonder what made him think of it though...hm