Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Creativity and New Media
New media has given people a chance to be creative in many different ways. Nike is a company that has jumped on board with this idea of new media and has given people a chance to customize gear. This concept is called NikeID. From sneaker to clears to clothing, you are able to pick colors, styles and put your Id on things. I play baseball here at Baruch and I have customized a pair of baseball clears that I may be wearing this season.
Creativity
Creativity is something that plays a major role in technology. New media is constantly being shaped by new creative thinkers. In today's media, they are always trying to come up with the next big thing that might change the game or create a buzz. Also giving a person the chance to be creative is something that has been very popular. Whenever either an app or website or new technology does this, it often finds success. An example is the app vine. This app allows people to create 6 second video clips. It allows people to be creative and express themselves however they want. This app has a similar set up to Instagram and twitter which have also been very successful due to it's ability to let people be creative and express themselves. This app has been extremely populars and has even made people "vine famous". This all has also been a home for postings called (mash-ups). In the article entitled "Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?" They talk about these video mashups and whether or not media companies should tolerate these parodies. This articles explains that media companies have been "fair and tolerant" and has not made this a piracy and copyright issue. This allows people to continue their creativity on vine and other platforms.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds
A
virtual world is a concept that has become extremely popular over the years.
Due to an increase in technology, the virtual world is continuing to grow. This
virtual world gives people a chance to escape reality and create an online
community. It also gives people a chance to express themselves in ways they
might feel uncomfortable doing in real life.
I personally was
unfamiliar with the concept of a virtual world before this topic came up. After
reading a New York Times article entitled “I’ve Been in that Club, Just Not in
Real Life” written by Dave Itzkoff I got a better idea of what this virtual
world was all about. In this article he talks about a site called VLES, which
stands for virtual lower east side. This site allows you to create an avatar
and explore a 3-D virtual lower east side. I find this concept to be very
interesting because it gives you a chance to explore a part of the city from
your living room. It also gives you a chance to link up with other people and
share your interests such as music or movies.
In
my opinion the idea of a virtual world contains positives and negatives. On one
hand, the idea of being able to explore a virtual world and interact with
people online is truly amazing. It gives people who sometimes might feel
uncomfortable going out and exploring the world, a chance to do so. However it
feeds into a problem that this generation is having. And that’s basic
interaction and conversation in the real world. Today’s world is all about
texting, email, Face book, and twitter. People are finding it difficult to make
phone calls and talk to people face to face. When it’s time for young people to
go into the real world and get a job, they are finding it very difficult. So
even though the idea of a virtual world is very interesting, I feel it is
another way that our society is being affected by technology.
Citation:
---http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/arts/television/06itzk.html?pagewanted=all
---No Budget, No Boundaries: It's the Real you by Ruth La Ferla, The New York Times, Oct 22 2009 p. E1
Monday, October 14, 2013
Twitter
is a site that allows the world to publish their thoughts on social network. A
person can create “tweets” which are 140 character text messages. This site has
become extremely popular with athletes and celebrities. It gives them a chance
to communicate with their fans/followers. And with the concept of hash tags companies
are able to advertise trough twitter by using different hash tags and posting
advertising tweets. For example Nike uses the hash tag #makeitcount, and this
gives Nike users a chance to stay connected and informed on gear and other Nike
opportunities. Twitter is one of the top ten most visited websites on the internet
today.
Twitter is similar to a blackboard
discussion because you can post something or reply to a persons post. However
on twitter you can only type out 140 characters. Also twitter use @ symbol to
connect to other people. In order to connect to another person in a tweet, @
next to a persons twitter handle will allow you to be connected. In discussion
boards you make posts and threads. Both twitter and discussion boards can be
very informative and useful and they are similar and different in many ways.
Blog: Social Networking Sites
Blog: Social Networking Sites
Social Networking sites like Face book, MySpace and Twitter
contain similarities and differences. These networking sites have changed the
way people communicate in everyday life. Through years of updates and advances
in technology, these sites have allowed the world to stay connected and
information to be spread on a faster global network.
MySpace
is one of the first more successful social networking sites. This was a site in order for a person
to stay connected with his or her friends while expressing themselves with
customized profile. This site allowed you to put pictures, music, backgrounds
on your page which showed people your interests.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Social Net'g
Social networking is something that
has become a major part of our society. It is literally everywhere. The concept
of social networking has grown to cover almost every aspect of the world today.
The idea of social networking has been able to link people together all over
the world and has created a new way for people to interact with each other.
One
way that corporations can use the idea of social networking is through their
hiring. As we all know, today’s business world is extremely competitive. A
companies hiring process can in some cases be extremely grueling. A major way
companies have been able contact people they are trying to hire, or get an idea
of what a person is about is through social media. Frank Langfitt talks about
this idea in his article entitled “Technology Boosts Job Recruiting”. Through
sites like face book and MySpace, it has become easier for businesses to track
people down and speed up the hiring process. This concept shows how companies,
as well as society, have been able to benefit from social media.
However
there is also a dark side to this idea of social networking. There have been a
lot of problems with people’s personal pages becoming public. There have been
many incidences where a person’s private information has been shared with the
public. Also due to the amount of companies that have been using these sites in
their hiring process, kids are constantly being warned about what they put on
these sites. Often people can lose jobs or won’t be hired based off what their
page contains. In an article entitled “Face book privacy is so confusing even
the Zuckerberg family photo isn’t private” Rebecca Greenfield brings light to a
matter involving the Zuckerberg family. A family picture that was meant to be
kept private was accidently made public. The main idea here is to be careful
about what you put on the internet because it is always possible that it will
be seen by other people, who you may not want to see it.
In
my opinion the idea of social media has completely changed the world. It has
affected areas such as communication with friends, advertising, marketing,
sports, music, business and so much more. These sites in my opinion are going
to come and go and people are always going to be into the next popular idea. But
the idea of networking through technology is going to continue to evolve
forever.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Blogs vs Wikis
Blogs vs Wikis
Blogs and Wikis
both contain many similarities and differences. They are both used in order to
share information across the World Wide Web. When in search of a more personal
form of information one would use Blogs. Blogs are where a person can create
posts about a certain topic. These posts are formatted in chronological order.
Blogs give a person a chance to express his or her opinion on a certain topic.
This can also be useful in other areas when in search for opinions on a
specific topic. Due to the fact that technology plays such a major role in
society, the idea of online communication and information spread through the
internet is becoming huge. It was said by Kathy E. Gill in an article entitled
How can we measure the influence of the blogosphere “Some
analysts suggest that blogs are poised to be the next generation opinion/editorial
page”. This is an example of the growth and impact that blog has on us today.
Another
form of the sharing of online information are Wikis. Wikis spread information
in a similar way as blogs except for the fact that it is less personal, and
less opinionated. When someone is interested in a topic they simply search Wikis
for answers as well as links to other sources. The ideas of wikis have been
growing and it is becoming the quick easy online version of an encyclopedia. Wikis
are becoming so popular that major businesses are beginning to use them. In an
article about wikis in InformationWeek entitled how to use wikis for business
it is said that “Wikis can centralize all types of corporate data, such
as spreadsheets, Word documents, PowerPoint slides, PDFs — anything that can be
displayed in a browser”. This is just one example of how wikis can be useful in
business.
Both wikis and Blogs contain very
similar features but they are different. Due to the technology today, the
sharing of information online has become extremely important and has been made
easy through Wikis and Blogs.
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