My New Media Class- So Far

Blogs,e-magazine,pandora,mashups,podcast,voip,video on you tube,flicker, virtual world etc are some example of new media which was inspired by old media with the combination of internet. Without internet it is impossiblre to create these new media. Internet has palyed fundamental role for the invention of new media. Only in the presence of internet we will be able to use the new media and take advantages.
Now a days people are using blogs to release their new articles instead of same old paper based news.For example news reporter don't have to wait till next morning to release their news articles in newspaper. In the same time public also able to read the blogs as soon as they are posted. In one of the reading I find it most interesting that now we have facinating online video culture. DIV tools fro shooting ,editing and broadcasting videos are not just changing who uses the medium . They are changing how we use it. we are developing a new language of video-forms that let us say different things and may be think different ways.


Work cited
Clive Thompson."Clive Thompson On How You Tube Changes the Way We Think." Wired Magazine:17.01. 12/22/08

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

The whole world is computerized. So it is more efficient to create something virtually rather than making real product to make better decisions in business, which reduce cost of doing business. Beside that Virtual world is also beneficial to the employeer to train his/her emplyoees for better performance in their business. For instance employees working in sales department can logon to virtual world and can interact with virtual customers like he/she does in reality but not very confident about themselves.This will help both employee and employeer to perform best in their business.
Virtual world is one of the tools that allows people in the socity to communicate and to socialize.Some people are shy or don't want to talk in fornt of mass, they can logon to virtual world and can learn or practice to communicate and socialize.They can go for dates, movies etc in the virtual world which they never did or thought about.
Everything has positive and negative impact on people. Likewise Virtual world is also one of the tool for social network which allow people to communicate in the virtual world. We can create our avatar in second life and can do or go whereever we want through the virtual world.For example I live in Nepal, if I want to go to Downtown Manhattan club I can go threre just by logging in to the virtual world and can see the virtual envronment just like real environment. This good in one way that I can enjoy few minutes but when I come back to reality it might makes me sad or depressedthat it's not the reality. Beside that in Virtual world people might use that technology to Launder money. Threre is a risk of criminals too.
So I think whatever the technology is, people must find the best way to use it. If we use for negative purposes that might be risky but if we use these technology effectively then it will be very beneficail for everybody.

work Citation

1. At hearing,Real and Virtual Worlds Collide:Forget C-SPAN:Congress Goes Interactive .Mike Musgrove .2008, April 2. TheWashing Post ,pg# D03.

Twitter Vs Blackboard.

Both Twitter and Blackboard are really interesting tools to discuss, brain storming, recents updates etc. Both are very useful for professors and students to keep in track with their subject matters. Both are similar in sense that both help us to keep track on recent happenings.
I like Blackboard more better because we can write and discuess more than twitter. Twitter allow us to write only 140 characters at one twits,which I think is to little to tell your openion to your friends or professors. But good thing about Twitter is that we can search anything we want and can ask for other's openions. Many people will respond to us very quickly.

Social Networking

In one hand social networking is very useful in todays world.Specially it is useful a company to hire it's employees as they can see their profile in the social network. They can build collaboration within the employees of different department or different geographical regions for better performances and better result. Company can produce a virtual product and ask for feedback from peopel to make better decision. Social network reduces the cost of doing business. Beside that Social network is also useful for every individual as it help us to keep in touch with our friends, family and relatives. We can see their photos and chat whenever we want and know the latest happing in their life. Social network has made our life easy.It seems like the world is very small because of social network.
In other hand we can't trust these Social network. There is a risk of identity theft as we create the account and give our real name and date of birth. Some people might do data minning through our account and could steal our identity.

Work cited

"Leaving 'Friendprints':How online Social Netwoks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal Security. Knowledge@WhartonJune 10,2009.Pages 1-2-3.http://knowledge.warton.upenn.edu

"What's Next?Your Future In Social Networking." Innovation In Action.

Check Out Social Networking Sites

Actually all the social networks have same goals, that is to connect you to your friends, family and relatives through out the world. It's main aim is to get connected with people, share your photos etc.Some of the social networksites are Facebook,Hi5,Friendater and MySpace.
Among them I like Hi5 and Facebook the most. I have been using these sites for long time. I really like about Hi5 is that we can choose different skin to skin our profile. Beside, that I like it most because in my country most of my friends have account in Hi5 rather than facebook or other sites. I like Facebook because I can chat with my mutual friends whenever I log in. In Facebook I have friends who live in United States and Australia and Europe.I also creat an account in friendster and myspace but I think those are little bit inconvenience for me because I can't have connection with most of my friends.

Blogs Vs Wiki

As we know that both of them fall under the category of new media. They are all most same but slightly different by features. The following are some reasons why they are little different.

Wiki: Wiki is used by so many peopl for information. We can edit wiki but with the publisher's permission only. For example we can edit if it's belong to our company or if it is our group. Wiki gives information to thousands of millions of people whoever are looking for information through wiki.It is really useful when we are doing group project and need to transfer information to large number of group members.

But,in case of Blog it is just like a social network.We use to provide information to our friends or to those who are involved in blogging. We can't edit other's page but we can comment on their's work. Beside that It is really good to provide information to our own group of friends faster than e-mailing each and every one.