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In this video, it clearly shows how new music in today's society is influenced, sampled & remixed through old "classic" music.

In this video, Clay Shirky talks about how the media as developed over the hundreds of years until the 20th century. One media as stated by Clay, such as internet, is the first medium in history which supports both groups and conversations at the same time. The media is also becoming more social, with social connections, a combination of newspaper, telegraph, telephone, movies, televisions, etc.. It was because of the internet, specifically Twitter, that let the world knows beforehand that an earthquake was happening in China before the news and the China government even knows about it. The media, a global, social, ubiquitous, and cheap place, is a way of creating an environment for assembling and supporting groups.

Its amazing of how the media changed so much in history.

This was back in 2009 so this video does not have to do with Egypt at all. This video points out all the media changes over the years.

In this article, Barbara King shows how many relationships are harmed by Facebook and are led towards divorce.

I thought this article was very interesting. The article really made me think about how social digital media can be affected by the government.

Google earth has proved itself to be one of the most fascinating web devices, and one of the largest exploration tool the Internet has to offer. It's no wonder why all sorts of new and exciting discoveries have been found on earth's vast surface and murky depths, all thanks to Google and their amazing Google Earth program.

This video shows what children enjoy doing the best and how easy and fascinated a child is to learn so many new things about everything.

Wesch talk about new forms of literacy

I found this by Christi-Anne Castro it talks about how the JOURNEY BAND found their new leading singer through YOUTUBE.

In this article it mainly talks about the new invention in the Microsoft Xbox 360 system. This invention is only for the Xbox 360 and it scans your body so that your body can be the controller. This has made a huge impact on other systems like the Nintendo Wii or the playstation Move. But those systems require a remote control not your own body. Also it explains how the Xbox kinect has many games that copies real life activities. It even has many weight loss activities that you can do and the kinect has made a social change by making your body the remote so that you don't have to be just sitting on the couch all day eating chips.

"As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited."

Annotation 3: In the article Face to Face: A Woman's Quest to Meet All Her Facebook Friends, the author Katy Heider Presser intriguing question is how has facebook changed the landscape of human interaction, and where do the bounds of true friendship begin and end? (Heider, 2011), which means how has facebook changed the world of interacting with each other, and where do the obstacles of true friendship start and end. Arlynn Leiber New Year's resolution to meet every one of her 330 Facebook friends--in person.

You're not RoboCop, and you're not Terminator, but you're cyborgs every time you look at a computer screen or use one of your cell phone devices. So what's a good definition for cyborg? Well, traditional definition is an organism "to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new environments." That came from a 1960 paper on space travel. Because, if you think about it, space is pretty awkward; people aren't supposed to be there. But humans are curious, and they like to add things to their bodies so they can go to the Alps one day and then become a fish in the sea the next.

how things have changed with technology in our world we live in..Whats new?

This article by Arnold Brown focuses on the impact of online social media, the "virtual world," on relationships, identity, community, and family. It talks about how relationships are established in the virtual world and how it may become if it increases later in the years. It talks about how family can still interact with each other even when one is far away from their family members. Lastly, it talks about how identity may be created online through users.

This article is really intresting and detailed about how we have come about to creating an identity online. Also, about the relationships we build online.

This is a great article that deals with "hactivism" orchestrated by a group called Anonymous.

Hip Hop is Evidence

the article it written by Anne Duran a PH.D graduate and a instructor at New Mexico state University. She discusses about an experiment she performed with her students relating to flash mobs and how the event affected them after their participation in the flash mob she organized

How new ways of playing a game may change the gaming world.