Pick a research presentation other than your own. Summarize and comment.
One of my favorite presentations was the one of romance in digital era. He also presented on the day of our presentation, personally i thought he was fabolous. He mainly focused on couples that meet online and how and what is their relationship based on compared with the normal ones. He spoke on the negative and positive aspects of meeting and dating people over the internet, and compared it to other relationships that meet normally. For example, over the internet many people make up things on how they really are and physical aspects. He showed an interesting video of a couple who had problems because the female was "cheating " with someone else through second life. I enjoyed his presentation very much, he had music on the background, funny handouts and his way of presenting was very catching, he kept the class tuned to his powerpoint presentation. He gave many websites that people use to chat and date online. Overall, it was very up to date with what goes on today.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
MY TERM RESEARCH PROJECT
On Thursday, April 23rd my partner and I presented our class with our project on text messaging and its impact on society. We divided the work in half. I spoke about the popularity of text messaging and why it has become such a popular technology among young people. Also, the benefits of the usage of text messages and the reasons behind its popularity. Why people prefer it instead of a phone call or email?
I also gave statistics on the usage and what countries send and receive the most messages. In my presentation I explained the impact that SMS (Short Messaging Service) has on medicine, academia and young people. I reported on how South Africa Health Campaigns use SMS to distribute health information regarding HIV/AIDS. SMS are sent to mostly everyone in the country with information on how to prevent it, how to treat it and its symptoms, facilities where they can get tested etc. And how SMS are used to make people quit smoking. SMS impact in academia, I explained the concerns that many have in regards with the "language" use in SMS, which resembles a code rather than a language. And how the this messages are braking the standard English language. Towards the end, I gave the positive and benefits of using SMS while my partner focus on the negativity of the SMS.
I also gave statistics on the usage and what countries send and receive the most messages. In my presentation I explained the impact that SMS (Short Messaging Service) has on medicine, academia and young people. I reported on how South Africa Health Campaigns use SMS to distribute health information regarding HIV/AIDS. SMS are sent to mostly everyone in the country with information on how to prevent it, how to treat it and its symptoms, facilities where they can get tested etc. And how SMS are used to make people quit smoking. SMS impact in academia, I explained the concerns that many have in regards with the "language" use in SMS, which resembles a code rather than a language. And how the this messages are braking the standard English language. Towards the end, I gave the positive and benefits of using SMS while my partner focus on the negativity of the SMS.
BARUCH NEW MEDIA - OUR CLASS WIKI - SO FAR
On the wiki, I created a page under New Media & Entertainment called Digital Distribution. I gave a brief definition on what digital delivery and Electronic software distribution are, which, is the principle of providing digital information and content over the Internet in the form of products or services. I started by putting up two companies that are famous for their distribution of audio content and books online. I included two pictures and I am still in the process of populating my page of the wiki with companies who are famous for their digital distribution, and also writing about their revenues and profit... Now I added more information on how their revenue is considered and the advantages of exchaging files online.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
The next new thing
Suggest a new type of "new media" that doesn't currently exist. Describe it.
Um, well to think of something that doesn't exist yet, is somewhat hard. Maybe if we can have job descriptions and interviews online.
Um, well to think of something that doesn't exist yet, is somewhat hard. Maybe if we can have job descriptions and interviews online.
ADVICE TO BARUCH COLLEGE
You are hired by Baruch College to use new media to improve the College. What are some suggestions you would make?
A good way that I would use new media to Baruch College, would be using the same idea of the Virtual Worlds into students classrooms. There are many students who are parents or have jobs that require them to travel often and cannot make it class. So, if we create a virtual world with all the classmates into one environment we can have regular class through virtual software. Each student would create their own character and they would all log in at the same time they are schedule for classes. They can be in Japan and still be marked present in class. I think this is a great way of not only interacting with your class mates virtually but contributing your ideas in a mandatory way. Many times students don't pay attention during class and consider participation as attendance only. By, using this software of virtual class I would make mandatory the contribution of each student, it doesn't hurt to give an opinion.
A good way that I would use new media to Baruch College, would be using the same idea of the Virtual Worlds into students classrooms. There are many students who are parents or have jobs that require them to travel often and cannot make it class. So, if we create a virtual world with all the classmates into one environment we can have regular class through virtual software. Each student would create their own character and they would all log in at the same time they are schedule for classes. They can be in Japan and still be marked present in class. I think this is a great way of not only interacting with your class mates virtually but contributing your ideas in a mandatory way. Many times students don't pay attention during class and consider participation as attendance only. By, using this software of virtual class I would make mandatory the contribution of each student, it doesn't hurt to give an opinion.
OLD VS. NEW
How do we distinguish “new media” from “old” media? List and explain several ways to do this.
We distinguish new media from old media by exploring the options, access, control, modification, and distribution of the source. For example our old media for news is the newspaper. Before new media, the consumer had little access to the information, if it wasn't read or seen on tv there were no other ways to get to the recent news. Now we have more options when the newspaper is on the web, this allows the information to be accesible in a faster way, now in days you can even read it from your cell phone.
Old media platforms such as radio, television and movies are not the consumers only options any more. The same content is now available in many different forms and formats. (e.g., blogs, wikis, YouTube). We don't need to depend in one source only, the availability that we have is so much greater with the internet that our access to it is unlimited. Also, new media gives the advantage of a mass distribution to consumer, I think is is the biggest difference between them two.
We distinguish new media from old media by exploring the options, access, control, modification, and distribution of the source. For example our old media for news is the newspaper. Before new media, the consumer had little access to the information, if it wasn't read or seen on tv there were no other ways to get to the recent news. Now we have more options when the newspaper is on the web, this allows the information to be accesible in a faster way, now in days you can even read it from your cell phone.
Old media platforms such as radio, television and movies are not the consumers only options any more. The same content is now available in many different forms and formats. (e.g., blogs, wikis, YouTube). We don't need to depend in one source only, the availability that we have is so much greater with the internet that our access to it is unlimited. Also, new media gives the advantage of a mass distribution to consumer, I think is is the biggest difference between them two.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Modeling Reality With Virtual Worlds
Virtual Worlds in my opinion are beneficial in many aspects of human life. Like the article that we read about the woman who gain such a social joy in second life because she was able to do in the virtual world what she wasn't able to do in real life. It gives them a sense of hope and allows them to do what in real life they can't. Also the kid with autism used second life for social interaction, it helps them develop friendships, since its so hard for them to speak and open up to other people. This technologies can be use as therapeutic methods, it's a stress release and a get away from it all, its a different experience.
Business that advertise places or for tourist who wants to visit a city and will like to know how the city looks like before going there can use virtual worlds just like VLES that shows how Lower East Side from NYC looks like. This can help out a lof of business to advertise and sell more eventually.
Addiction is a dark side, many people can get hooked on it and not leave their homes. Kids may not even excercise or not do their homework and get in the habbit of just sit infront of the computer all day. I think virtal worlds will evolve and will be the "hot thing" in more years to come. I think video games companies will take more advantage of this techonology to make more realistic and better games.
Business that advertise places or for tourist who wants to visit a city and will like to know how the city looks like before going there can use virtual worlds just like VLES that shows how Lower East Side from NYC looks like. This can help out a lof of business to advertise and sell more eventually.
Addiction is a dark side, many people can get hooked on it and not leave their homes. Kids may not even excercise or not do their homework and get in the habbit of just sit infront of the computer all day. I think virtal worlds will evolve and will be the "hot thing" in more years to come. I think video games companies will take more advantage of this techonology to make more realistic and better games.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
