Throughout my contemplation of this week’s readings and participation in class discussions regarding social media, I have been wrestling with several issues that I hope we can dissect further as a collective this week. These issues included: technological access, disciplined discretion, and the perpetuation of panoptic prisons. Like many of you, through Andrejevic’s interview, my [...]
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2011/10/10/college-admissions-officials-turn-to-facebook-to-research-students With technology advancing so rapidly and becoming more convenient and accessible, social media has become a huge part in the daily media routine for many individuals. It has allowed people to communicate with each other in ways never achieved before and it seems like every few months, sites like Facebook and Twitter are integrated [...]
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People in developed countries are becoming increasingly reliant on technology for its ability to simplify life and acquire instantaneous results. The interesting topic is that of Facebook, a social media website that captures the dynamics of human relationships and human interaction with a community of people ranging from local, national, and international distances. Facebook’s ability [...]
http://www.cleverbot.com/ Seriously. You can talk to it about anything.
What was most interesting to me out of the articles we read was the issue of privacy features in the article “Will Facebook Still Be Around In Five Years?”. For me personally I had a lot of issues concerning the privacy of Facebook. For example, I had disliked that so many people who I barely [...]
I was particularly interested in the two articles that talked about how death and dating changed since Facebook. One aspect of social media that I think is particularly noteworthy is how it has changed the process of the job search. This is especially relevant for those of us seniors who are about to begin or [...]
This week’s discussion on social media really opened my eyes to how powerful it has become and how immersed we have become in it. So now can it be ignored? After a recent trip to Career Services for resume help, a friend of mine was told that links to your presence in social networks (Facebook [...]
Urban dictionary defines a “cyberthug” as “someone who talks crap and acts hard over the internet” while in real life he/she would NEVER say or do the things that he/she does online. I’m sure all of us have encountered a cyberthug or two, especially when anonymity is involved. If you have never encountered one, then [...]
As we have repeatedly talked about in class, media are the interrelations of technologies, institutions and cultural forms. The topic of new media this week covers remediation, restructuring old media with new uses and understandings and developing new technological devices for the same reasons or purposes as old devices. When we think of new technology, [...]
