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What is new media

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We are now living in the 21st Century and there is no doubt about how new media is growing and rapidly moving away from old media. What kind of technologies do we refer to as "new media"? There are many things we can call "new media," such as Twitter, Instagram, Face-time and video communication (like online lectures), blogs, Facebook, and Snap-chat. These new media have changed our lives.




Social networking

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There are many technologies can be used in the corporate world. There are old technologies like ground mails, fax and telegram but now our new technologies are very advance like IT services, cloud storage, business class mail, business internet, intent messaging and etc. Nowadays in the corporate world, most of our works done electronically. The main reason was the computer invention. There are a lot of advantages of the technologies to society. First, the development of technology is beneficial to humans for many reason. At the medical level, technology can provide a very advanced treatment and it can be very helpful to doctors and patients. For example, technology can help doctors to treat more sick people and save many lives, cure very harmful diseases and viral infections. Secondly, healthcare can benefit from technologies by helping lab research. On the dark side, standards for communications are very poor on social media. If the communication is poor, then there will be problems and conflict between the doctor’s and patient’s understanding. For example, patience might read a wiki on health and get incorrect information because the authors on the wiki might not be professional doctors, since this is how wikis can work (Wikipedia on Wikis). Also, social media produces media sensation (Gill 2004), which is very different from something serious like healthcare.


Blog v Wiki

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A blog is short for a personal “weblog.” It usually has a single author. Sometimes can have multiple contributors. It is a public space where everyone can view and add comments on any post. Blogs can be very personal, unique in style and controlled by an individual. A blog is usually where an author shares their thoughts and ideas at that moment, so they are historical and relevant to people at a point in time. A wiki is a website that allows multiple users to create, modify and organize web page content in a combining manner. Wikis are open so that people can combine and connect with other people within a circle of wiki users (Wikipedia on Wikis). In a wiki, there are managers that control the content (but there are different ways to do this (Cohen 2009). In our wiki, our instructor grades each participant individually and looks over the wiki. I do not know how important it is that there be convergence of people through blogs and wikis. For example, I wonder if too many people can be convinced of wrong things (like fake news) in our networked world. So convergence of opinions and political beliefs is not always good. But it seems like wikis are perfect for collaboration, since everyone is working together to create something in wikis (Locher 2008). They can be used to create documents, software and internet services. They are like open-source software and a type of crowd-sourcing. Wikis are great for people who want to create things for free and open to the public. Maybe a new use for wikis could be education. For example, professors could collaborate to create a wiki for a course. The wiki will be like the textbook or lecture open for the public.


Social networking sites

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and SnapChat


Facebook is dedicated mainly to stories, games, page promotions and pictures. You can share pictures and stories about your day, news or other posts. You can chat and use Facebook’s video call worldwide. Facebook doesn’t have a time limit for either pictures or videos.

Twitter is mainly to share serious elements such as news. Twitter also has games, built-in analytics and page promotion. Twitter is very detailed, it has a smaller character limit, up to only 280 characters.

Instagram is mainly dedicated to pictures, stories, game and webpage promotion. Instagram has a time limit on videos (you can only upload up to 60 seconds) and pictures (you can upload 10 pictures per post).

SnapChat is mainly dedicated to pictures, viewers, and screenshot notifications. Snap-chat is mostly used for per-day activities. For example, you can post pictures and videos but your followers are able to view only within 24hrs of your upload, because it will automatically archive it after a day.

Form my point of view, Facebook is best for chatting and video calls. Twitter is the best for sharing news. Instagram is best for sharing pictures, and Snap-chat is best for sharing in-the-moment pictures.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki