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Taylor Rowand

The internet in society: empowering or censoring citizens? - 0 views

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Internet society RSA

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  • Taylor Rowand on 13 Dec 11
     
    Interesting lecture discussing internet and governmental access to information about the population of any given country.
Heather Groen

D #8 HW #4 - Understanding Media Revolution: How Digitalization is to be Considered - 1 views

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TWC 301 What is New Media? media revolution

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  • Heather Groen on 28 Feb 12
     
    This article provides an additional perspective of the "media revolution."  In its ability to transmit knowledge, a medium is a catalyst to open up new possibilities and perspectives to its audience. The media revolution took place when digitalization became a global and universal process. It is also described here as "irreversible;" it involves a great deal of change at the economic, social, political, and cultural levels of a society. This article also covers the process of shifting into a more computerized state; the first stage, for example, involves adapting traditional tasks from the old medium to the new. From there, the people speculate about the future.
Tana Ingram

D#3 HW#6 Globalization, Transnational Communication and the Internet - 1 views

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Chapter 5

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  • Jennifer Martinek on 03 Sep 10
     
    I like this link because it talks about International English (like in chapter 5 when we were learning about differences under the language section) on the internet
  • Tana Ingram on 03 Sep 10
     
    This article I found in the International Journal of Multicultural Societies. It gives some definitions of globalization (both negative and positive) and discusses whether English really is "the" language of the internet. It's fascinating to learn how different people view this issue.
Victoria Burch

D#2,HW#7 - Gender Differences in Internet Use and Online Relationships - 0 views

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  • Victoria Burch on 23 Jan 11
     
    This journal article shares its findings on how the internet continually changes the way society as a whole communicates and maintains relationships. It explains gender differences, experiences and opinions of online interpersonal relationships. It explains that because the internet gives a sense of anonymity, it allows people to lend more social support, be more truthful in personal information and be more accepting to others. It also explores the importance of the internet for males vs females and also found that both genders would rather have a face-to-face interactions than online ones.
Victoria Burch

D#9, HW#3 -WordLingo New Media - 0 views

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new media flew manovich

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  • New media rely on digital technologies, allowing for previously separate media to converge. Media convergence is defined as a phenomenon of new media and this can be explained as a digital media.“
  • he most prominent example of media convergence is the Internet, whereby the technology for video and audio streaming is rapidly evolving. The term convergence is disputed, with critics such as Lev Manovich pointing out that the 'old' medium of film could be seen as the convergence of written text (titles and credits), photography, animation and audio recording
  • New Media has become a significant element in everyday life. It allows people to communicate, bank, shop and entertain. The global network of the Internet, for instance, connects people and information via computers.[3] In this way the Internet, as a communication medium of New Media, overcomes the gap between people from different countries, permitting them to exchange opinions and information. Diverse means for this exist even within the context of the Internet, including chat rooms, Instant Messaging applications, forums, email messaging, online video and audio streaming and downloads, and voice-over-internet telecommunications. New Media is defined not only as a communication tool, but also as a tool for the commercial exchange of goods and services.[
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  • transition to new media has seen a handful of powerful transnational telecommunications corporations who own the majority achieve a level of global influence which was hitherto unimaginable.
  • new media follows the logic of the postindustrial or globalised society whereby 'every citizen can construct her own custom lifestyle and select her idology from a large number of choices. Rather than pushing the same objects to a mass audience, marketing now tries to target each individual separately.'
  • "virtual communities" are being established online and transcend geographical boundaries, eliminating social restrictions. Rheingold (2000) describes these globalised societies as self-defined networks, which resemble what we do in real life. "People in vi
  • rtual communities use words on screens to exchange pleasantries and argue, engage in intellectual discourse, conduct commerce, make plans, brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, create a little high art and a lot of idle talk"
  • New Media has been used extensively by social movements to educate, organize, share cultural products of movements, communicate, coalition build, and more.
  • New media can be defined not only as things you can see such as graphics, moving images, shapes, texts, and such. It is also things that cannot be seen, such as a Wi-Fi connection. Like radio or electricity, no one can see the Wi-Fi waves in the air floating through the air. But the Wi-Fi concept can be considered new media. So new media can be either concept-based, refer to a solid object, or both.
  • Any individual with the appropriate technology can now produce his or her online media and include images, text, and sound about whatever he or she chooses. [27] So the new media with technology convergence shifts the model of mass communication, and radically shapes the ways we interact and communicate with one another.
  • even some forms of digitized and converged media are not in fact interactive at all
  • "the global interactive games industry is large and growing, and is at the forefront of many of the most significant innovations in new media" (Flew 2005: 101). Interactivity is prominent in these online computer games such as World of Warcraft and The Sims. These games, developments of "new media", allow for users to establish relationships and experience a sense of belonging, despite temporal and spatial boundaries. These games can be used as an escape or to act out a desired life. Will Wright, creator of The Sims, "is fascinated by the way gamers have become so attached to his invention-with some even living their lives through it" [30]. New media have created virtual realities that are becoming mere extensions of the world we live in.
  • The advertising industry has capitalized on the proliferation of new media with large agencies running multi-million dollar interactive advertising subsidiaries. In a number of cases advertising agencies have also set up new divisions to study new media. Public relations firms are taking advantage of the opportunities in new media through interactive PR practices.
  • New media can be seen to be a convergence between the history of two separate technologies: media and computing.
  • new media can now be defined as "graphics, moving images, sounds, shapes, spaces, and texts that have become computable; that is, they comprise simply another set of computer data.
  • Flew (2002) stated that as a result of the evolution of new media technologies, globalisation occurs. Globalisation is generally stated as "more than expansion of activities beyond the boundaries of particular nation states".[6] Globalisation shortens the distance between people all over the world by the electronic communication (Carely 1992 in Flew 2002) and Cairncross (1998) expresses this great development as the "death of distance". New media "radically break the connection between physical place and social place, making physical location much less significant for our social relationships" (Croteau and Hoynes 2003: 311).
  • Old media
  • involve analog processes
  • as opposed to new media which sample media as a numerical representation in binary code.
  • Victoria Burch on 26 Feb 11
     
    This is the best article I've found for this topic. It discusses new media in relation to Manovich's article AND actually interrelates Flew's virtual communities article too! I thought that was pretty cool. It also gives examples of what new media is, and how it is affecting our communities through globalization and social change
samantha negrin

New Media, Old Media - Pew Research Center - 0 views

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  • Danielle Chivers on 26 Feb 11
     
    This article discusses new media vs. old media highlighting the key differences between blogs and social media and the traditional press.
  • samantha negrin on 04 Oct 11
     
    This is an article providing statistics on how new media is weighing out old, traditional forms of media in society. (2010) Twitter, youtube and blogging are taking over traditional press such as newspapers.
Daniel Throckmorton

D#6, HW#6 - License to Play Music in Public- Simple Advices to get started - 0 views

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twc301 copyright fair use music public

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      Daniel Throckmorton on 14 Jun 11
       
      How many people know of restaurant employees using their iPod for music? Yeah, that's illegal :/
  • planning to play music in public
  • what if someone wants to play a copyrighted song in public?
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  • he person needs to contact the copyright owner or the publisher and asked for a “public performance license”
  • impossible task
  • monitor all public performances in a worldwide scope
  • public performance right societies
  • if you need a license to play music in public, you need to contact each of these public performance right societies
  • failure to secure public performance license can constitute a copyright infringement.
anonymous

D7 HW#1 When People Look at Your Blog What Do They See? - 1 views

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TWC301 Chapter 7 Flow

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  • anonymous on 02 Oct 11
     
    The viewer's eye in western society reads from left to right and top to bottom. When mixing images with text, readers' eyes travel in a backwards S or Z pattern. This website demonstrate how the Z pattern flows through the document.
D Schick

D#3, HW#6--Transnational communications - 1 views

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chapter5

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  • The present report summarizes findings from the Detroit Arab American Study pertaining to transnational activities and experiences, particularly those involving communication with the Arab Middle East.
  • vironment, it is easier than in the past to maintain transnational connections. In
  • Eric Holsclaw on 15 Jul 10
     
    "Transnational Communication among Arab Americans in Detroit"
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  • Eric Holsclaw on 15 Jul 10
     
    I found this to be a very interesting read that contrasts transnational comunicaions.
  • Shay O'Neill on 01 Sep 10
     
    The reason I liked reading about this resource is that it is relateable to us and shows a direct connection to the concept about transnational communication. This study was about looking how Arab's of middle eastern descent have settled in a large area around Detroit now sit maintain and create connections with their families, heritage, and friends located half the world away. To me this shows a real world application of how this happens and the essay goes on to look at several parts of the communities and how age and technology play roles into this equation as well. While it does not really go into some of the definitions of the textbook I think it is more important with its actually occurrence and discovering what, how, why, and when it is happening in society.
  • D Schick on 02 Sep 10
     
    I like that this article discusses the grow populations of Arab groups, especially in the Detroit area, and how we need to get a better understanding between the two cultures.
  • D Schick on 02 Sep 10
     
    Transnational Communication among Arab Americans in Detroit: Dimensions, Determinants, and Attitudinal Consequences
Osmara Altenhof

D#1.1 HW#3 - Website chapter 1 - 0 views

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  • Osmara Altenhof on 24 Jan 10
     
    This website is a comprehensive look and provides information on the key concepts and strategies of rhetorical thinking. Check out my blog for the other two sites/links I found:a glossary of rhetorical and critical thinking terms and the Society of Technical Communications - an organization we may all be a part of someday.
  • kathinunley on 24 Jan 10
     
    All great sites Osmara...thanks for sharing!
April Gallegos

Virtual Communities - M/Cyclopedia of New Media - 2 views

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  • There are virtual communities representing everything from intense one-on-one encounters, people interested in gardening, political and environmental lobbyists to political prisoners (Rosenberg, 2004, p.612). The uses are diverse but all virtual communities on some level provide an interactive forum for communication between its users. The level of communication is often directly related to 1: the needs of the users and 2: the specific purpose of the particular virtual community. Most virtual communities have at least one of three main purposes: either to network and collaborate, provide emotional support or to improve quality of life (Joinson, 2003, p.169)
    • April Gallegos
      April Gallegos on 23 Jan 11
       
      This is exactly what the article was saying about the different reasons people use virtual communities.
  • The term ‘virtual community’ was first cited as commonplace by Howard Rheingold, to define the online cultures of those engaging in computer-mediated communication (CMC), establishing “alternative planetary information networks�? (Rheingold quoted in Flew, 2005, p. 62). This was made possible due to the three interrelated components of CMC: the construction of social networks and social capital, the sharing of knowledge and information, and the facilitation of new forms of democratic participation in society (Flew, 2005, p. 62)
    • April Gallegos
      April Gallegos on 23 Jan 11
       
      They talked about Rheingold and quoted him in the article as one of the first persons to study virtual communities, an activist entrpreneur
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