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Janelle Tyme

Netflix CEO says torrent piracy in Canada down 50 per cent - Blog Central, Editor's Pic... - 1 views

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    The CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, states that torrent piracy in Canada has gone down by 50% since the establishment of Netflix three years ago, although no research or statistics have been able to support his claim. Hastings claims that piracy helps "create a demand" for legal ways to watch video through the internet. Is this true?
Raweeh Paz

Social Networking Fact Sheet - 0 views

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    The article provides a commentary on social media. It gives insight on the different types of people - the demographics - that use all the various social media that is out there and relevant. It sorts out the different age groups, ethnicities, genders among other things like the way they are using it - creation vs. curators. One can also find other articles on the same website that link to other various information relevant to the topic at hand. There is also a longer but more in-depth analysis on the usage of social media done by the same group of people here (http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED525056.pdf).
ryley Hughes

Is technological convergence becoming part of us? | - 0 views

  • Therefore, there is an inclination that more and more devices will be performing similar tasks; this tendency is called technological convergence, and the best example is of smart phones
  • statistics show that 57% of kids view their cell phone as key to their social life and that more than 50% say they would die without their phone
  • advertisers have a better and more effective way to manipulate consumers to get their products, they simply get a celebrity to tweet about their product
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  • In this case, advertisement became not only cheaper but also more efficient thanks to technological convergence of social media
  • we are able to widen our view of target market and create global tendencies and patterns to be followed
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    This blog post elaborates upon the possible implications of the continuous technological convergence occurring in society.  He touches on negative issues such as the growing dependence on technology such as cellphones, which have only been around for a number of years.  He also explains positives for advertisers and entrepreneurs such as the ability to reach a global audience at next to no fee.  I thought this article would be relevant because our course similarly reflects upon the impacts of media on our lives as citizens, students and consumers.
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