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Educating parents about social media networks. I like this because I am a big fan of social media networking and social networks are apart of the digital writing.

Using social media for professional and personal use.

Tips on how to use social media for good in your presentations

How social media changes the way we are viewed online

Dives into the matters of fair use and social media. Up to date on current issues and an organization, not commercial web site!

This site has nice 11 rules of netiquette list, easy to read & access the info.

How to fix your online identity.

How to fix your online identity.

People are physically, psychologically, and socially influenced by color. Color has been found to have connections to health and it can help set the mood through which your designs are seen. << how color and contrast are beneficial to design.

A step by step way to manage your online identity.

A step by step way to manage your online identity.

"in the age of social networks and Web 2.0, we become the agents of our own undoing. And therefore, discussions about identity must be fashioned with a subtler clay. At every juncture-morning, noon and night-we redefine our own identities"

continuing the argument of whether or not it is more important to keep your identity on the internet private.

"An online identity can be as permanent as an offline one: pseudonymous users often identify themselves in different social networks using the same account name"

CommentsMany commentators seem to believe that the growing gap between rich and poor is an inevitable byproduct of increasing globalization and technology. In their view, governments will need to intervene radically in markets to restore social balance.

Remediation This video really helped me understand the article better by providing examples I could relate to.

A video that explains the difference between immediacy, hypermediacy, and remediation showing examples from different films

This is an interesting video about immediacy in social media. The woman gives a great definition of hypermediacy and immediacy.

Much of new media is formed with social changes. The more variable new media is, the more it appeals to the individuality of this generation.

We define "new media" as interactive forms of communication that use the Internet, including podcasts, RSS feeds, social networks, text messaging, blogs, wikis, virtual worlds and more! << this article relates new media to HIV.

This is a really good site that provides lots of plug-ins that will help you not only to improve your WordPress blog but to make it more accessible to others. It gives yout alot of plug-ins that you can use to link the blog to Facebook or Twitter and also provides a couple of plugines that will let provide a link to social bookmarking sites (Diigo) to the blog. It also provides plug-ins to put picture and videos on your blog. Overall, if you want to use your wordpress blog beyond this class, this website gives your idea to make it more personal and one of a kind.

Repetition is action, on websites, social media, advertisments, etc

analyssis of repetiton in several webpages. Gives good examples of repetition

"Law provides copyright protection to creative works in order to foster the creation of culture. Its best known feature is protection of owners' rights. But copying, quoting, and generally re-using existing cultural material can be, under some circumstances, a critically important part of generating new culture. "

simplified explanation of Creative Commons and breakdown of the six international licenses

This video consisted of many stats about how quickly new media has been evolving and expanding. I love this statistics format because it provides amazing facts that don't take much time for me to read and comprehend. This helped me to better understand where technology was, is, and where it's going. This also helped me understand some more facts about new media while keeping my full attention