Tell Me Something that I Don't Know
The Chris Matthews show is a syndicated TV show. One of the segments on it is "Tell Me Something that I Don't Know." Top news reporters from around the country tell Chris their "scoops and predictions" about current or future events.
What was your base (prior) knowledge on the subjects? How has the book increased your knowledge base? In what ways did you need to go beyond the book?
Cite specific examples and terms. 250 word count. Due Thursday, September 8.
I did not have a strong base knowlege on the subjects. After I read the chapters in the book, I was not so dumbfounded anymore. I realized that the new media plays a role in my everyday life and I never knew. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, sites that I use everday, are new new media. After discovering that social networking was part of new new media, I realized I did know a bit about these subjects. I knew how to use these social networking sites, their purposes, and who created them. I remember that cyber bullying was a big deal on MySpace because I saw it on the news when I was younger. My parents did not let me create an account because they were scared of the cyber danger. After reading the chapters six, I knew more about the history; for example Myspace was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in July 2005 for 580 million dollars. Next I found out cyberstalking and harrasment are very common on MySpace. MySpace is also a good place for musicians to expose themselves with out having a middle man and going to gigs. Bands or singers could make a music page, invite people, and then the people who were invited are able to listen to the music on the band's or singer's Myspace. Most of my knowledge of Facebook came from the movie, "The Social Network." If all of that was true, then I am well rehearsed in Facebook's roots. I also found out that Facebook 'Friends,' are more of real life friends than MySpace, 'Friends.' Another interesting fact I found out about Facebook is photos of breastfeeding are considered, "obsecene," if the areola tissure is visible in the picture. Twitter is the only networking that I do not know how to use or know much of. I did not create an account because I did not want to get addicted to it like how I used to be with MySpace, now Facebook. One addiction was enough, I did not need another one. I do not know much about it because my friends are not Tweeters. In the chapter, I found out that Twitter is "microblogging." It's full of status updates of only 140 characters. Twitter is also a good place to advertise and campaign. Politicians, musicians, and celebrities have twitters. On the radio I heard that celebrities are paid to Tweet and advertise products. Twitter statues can create buzzes by using URLs or weblinks. The Twitter feed shows updates of people you "followed." Instead of adding friends, you "follow" friends. After reading the text I realized that there is so much involved in social networking. It is more than my friends and I connecting together. It's the whole world connecting together (Levinson, 2009).
ReplyDeleteLevinson, P. (2009). New new media. (p. 111-142). Elm Street Publishing Services.
Facebook has revolutionized the way we communicate with others. Weather it is new friends, old friends, or others with like interests, Facebook has made communication fast and easy for everyone.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes too social networking there are many different types of social networks another very popular social network is Myspace. So what is the difference between Myspace and Facebook? Well from my own knowledge Myspace is used more for promoting people’s works such as music whereas Facebook is a more user-friendly network used to communicate between people. According to Paul Levinson’s book New New Media “Facebook has a much higher ratio of real-life friends than does MySpace.” Levinson makes a very good point, MySpace doesn’t give you much information about a person besides a few basic interests and a flashy looking page. Facebook gives you the opportunity to know the person in detail. Facebook offers the option to let you post in depth detailed interests and information such as: occupation, education, religious and political views, favorite quotes, interests, and relationships. You also have the opportunity to see mutual friends with others. You can be matched up with people that you may know by being linked with schools and areas.
Early Facebook could only be used by users with the email extension .edu so students could get to know students. MySpace on the other hand was opened to the public which made it explode at first with music and other mainstream popular products like Levinson’s Book. When Facebook went public it blew MySpace out of the water and today it is almost a necessity for everyone worldwide.
Levinson, P. (2009). New new media. (p. 110-113,120-121). Elm Street Publishing Services.
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ReplyDeleteChapter 7 of “New New Media” fascinated me the most because it brings up the big question of Myspace vs. Facebook. I prefer Facebook to Myspace for many reasons, Facebook is easier to use and is usually used by all sorts of people of all ages. I like the news feed system, how you can chat and message family and friends, businesses/music/funny pages that users can personally “like” and be apart of. Facebook has a better layout for pictures and information that is posted. I deleted my Myspace over a year ago because barely any of my friends were using it and it’s not that popular of a social network anymore. The book has the author’s personal experiences with both pages. Similar to my beliefs, he couldn’t find many of his friends on Myspace but could find a good majority of them on of course, Facebook. Over time, his book became popular and he grew popularity of Myspace so he continued to keep it. With this being said, learning from the book..I personally believe Myspace is becoming close to Twitter because users tend to follow music artists, authors, etc instead of communicating with family and friends. I believe I could go beyond this book by using Facebook for different uses instead of just uploading pictures and connecting with friends. Maybe start looking into artists and groups that are more useful for school.
Danielle Beckham (Worsley)
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Before I read anything in Levinsons book, I was under the assumption that all of the media hype there is going on today, was considered “new media”. In reference to the “hype” I considered, Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Blogging, MySpace, and several others in relation with these to be “new media”. MySpace and Google were the only two I had considered being a thing of the past, because there have been several other new inventions that have taken over their place. While MySpace may not be as popular as it was six years ago, Google has definitely not lost the race.
According to Levinson, he says that the new new media trends are as follows: blogging, YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg, MySpace, Twitter, Second Life and podcasts. Email, newspapers, some blogging and news are considered the older form of just “new media”. These days’ people are able to find out in a matter of seconds news that is going on locally or even worldwide through our impacting use of technology via blackberry or iPhone. Before the iPhone or blackberry, people were forced to watch the local news stations at home or check their email daily for upcoming reports and events. Through the impact of new new media consumers and producers are able to “feed” their information through a wide circuit of individuals.
Levinson discusses the topic of “choosing your medium”, which I found interesting, because he made good points about the diversity of talent levels in individuals. He provided a few examples of career choices that would be good for different personality types. There was one in particular I enjoyed, which was, if a person has an unclear pattern to writing, they may not be fit for blogging, but may try podcasting. According to about.com, podcasting is a revolution that anyone with a microphone can access a worldwide audience through the media feed. Podcasting would be something ideal for somebody like me, because I do not look at myself as a writer and cannot always articulate what I’m trying to say through writing. Therefore, being able to broadcast myself in a short segment to others and asking/answering questions seems to be a better fit because I enjoy more connection with people, whereas, writing is a disconnect for me.
The author’s main idea for writing this book seems clear that he wants to illustrate the “new new trends”, while still involving the new media ideas and contrasting the different ways they are used and how effective they are. Levinson takes all the latest and greatest, and even the older style media feeds and provides examples of how they are effective and what style of audience people can reach through the trends.
Being an active, viral college student I have learned a few things about new media online. What I did not know was about the transformation from new media to new new media. I always thought that new media included facebook and myspace, as well as the traditional television and radio. I have a facebook account and a myspace account and know how to use blogs and surf the internet. I know the channels to get the news and how to read the information line instead of picking up a newspaper daily from the local convenient store. Apparently not. I have gone through and read at least the chapter titles in the book and read the information about the subjects I did not know. I had never heard of Digg,Second Life, or Podcasting.
ReplyDeleteThis book is a good basis for receiving information on new new media that I have not experienced yet. In order to broaden my horizons in new new media I am going to have to experience everything myself. Meaning, I am going to have to make myself more viral than I already am. The web and the media are changing every day. In order to be able to stay up to date on the media, I am going to have to be open to learning new knowledge and keeping up with the change of the media.
Other ways that I am going to have to go beyond the book is being able to adapt and stay ahead of the rest of the media competition. I am going to have to always be researching new ways to get information to the public to make sure that what ever I am selling, producing or publishing will get to the minds of my audience before the new new media changes into something completely different putting me behind again.
Even though I had been using the three social networking mediums, I knew very little about them. I knew the basic features and a little about the history as it progressed over time, but that was about the extent of my knowledge. Myspace took over as the top social networking website until the debut of Facebook. The scandal about the cyber-bullying really surprised me (Levinson, 2009). To think that the neighbor’s parent would stoop down to that level is ridiculous. I knew that Facebook started as a social network for Harvard only, but began moving to different universities. I was also shocked to read that photos of breastfeeding were banned on Facebook for nudity. Levinson sparked a thought with his question on page 131: “One wonders why not in all 50 [states]. Babies should be deprived of nursing when they get hungry in public?...Because some prudish onlooker would rather not see that? Would not a more effective expedient be to just look the other way?” I did research to find countermeasures for the ban and found a petition for the ban. The petition had reached 261,000 members by June of 2010 (Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding is not obscene!). In an article in the New York Times, one mother, who had photos removed, said that it would be fair for others if Facebook banned any exposed chest, regardless of sex (Wortham). Barry Schnitt, a spokesman for Facebook, said, “Whether it’s obscene, art, or natural art, we’d rather just leave it at nudity and draw the line there.”
ReplyDeleteHey facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene! [Web log message]. Retrieved from https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2517126532
Levinson, P(2009). New new media
Wortham, J. . (2009, January 2). Facebook won’t budge on breastfeeding photos.New York Times. Retrieved from http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/breastfeeding-facebook-photos
In today’s society, social media and networking has rapidly taken over the world, basically. It’s how we communicate today. It has virtually extinguished the factors of time and distance to communication. Everything is instant. Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter are three of the networking giants used to share pictures, our feelings, our emotions, and basically see who’s out there, without going out there.
ReplyDeletePrior to reading chapter’s 6, 7, and 8, I had an idea of how to use these three sites, but didn’t understand the full social impact of them. I knew that millions of people were on them, but kind of assumed that they all used it as I did. A way to pass time.
In chapter 6, Levison explains how Myspace takes out the middle man (manager) in a musical artists pursuit of success. He explained in the section “MySpace music and New New Media” how instead of artists need to be booked at a club to be heard, they could just put their music on MySpace to get recognition. SNOCAP, “and online jukebox offering free samples of your music, with a purchase option for the full recording, at the price you set (Arrington, 2006),”(Levison, pg 115) made this even easier for up and coming artists. This and many other examples of New New Media use in the book have expanded my base knowledge on how social media works.
Outside of the book, the social impact is prevalent. I hear about things going on on Facebook in class. I hear about things going on in class on Facebook. A great example of this is the recent Libyan government being forced to face its people rebelling against it. The rebellion wouldn’t have existed without social media. Facebook and Twitter were used to “rally the troops” together to fight tyranny.
Elijah Toney
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Survey of New Media
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
We live in an online world. Our social connections exist mainly in an artificial universe. Facebook, Myspace, and twitter are the three largest examples of this. I take part in each of these, but prior to reading the chapters in “New New Media,” I hadn’t looked into Myspace and Twitter as much as far as the global and social impact they contribute. I understood that Myspace was primarily a site for artists to put their music out there but I never thought about exactly how that happens and what the benefits are. “The “music pages” on Myspace, initiated in 2005. This drastically changed the face of the social network. Artists now had a way to get rid of the publicist or manager and interact with fans themselves without being mauled for autographs. This concept greatly favors the up and coming artists as they can post their music on their page and add as many friends as they please. It is a sure fire way to get some recognition from very little effort. This changed the game in such a way that artists are no longer striving to get a show booked but more for creating an online buzz that sounds like money to a potential record company. If you are popular on Myspace, there is a good chance you can be successful. Before reading, I was aware that artists use Myspace for recognition, but I was unaware of just how much affect it had on the music industry.
I have had very little interaction with Twitter. So the book basically taught me everything. What I see is huge advertising potential. As Levinson says, it is “The Epitome of Immediacy.” Businesses can print flyers or make t-shirts to try and promote their product, but that’s expensive and many people won’t even see or notice them. Twitter puts the information out there instantly for 32 million people to see and all for free. Yes a lot of people use it for a more personal reason, but what I see is advertising.
Prior to reading chapters in Paul Levinson’s book, “New New Media” I had a very consumer level knowledge base on new media, mainly dealing with the social aspects and knowing the very basics of how they work and operate but with no true knowledge of the depth and science behind this reality of new media. The book has so far increased my knowledge base as it has broken down both historical and almost scientific operations of these forms of new media. Such as the case of Lori Drew found on page 112 in dealing with cyber bullying and how if this kind of thing is not taken under control and people held accountable it can cause devastating realities to take place, prior to reading chapter 6 I had no knowledge of this kind of reaction caused by these forms of new media. Also, Twitter updates that are symbolized to T-shirts or jewelry as found on pages 136-137 is a way I had never viewed status updates before but Levinson makes a compelling argument about such comparisons and how they are effective as such. Ways in which I need to go beyond the book in order to further my knowledge in this field of new media would be to follow up on some of the things that Levinson cites, such as court cases, past articles, etc. As well as simply going to the sites themselves of these forms of new media and checking out what the company themselves say about their own product.
ReplyDeleteLevinson, P. (2009). New new media. (p. 112,136-137). Elm Street Publishing Services.
Before reading our book, I had a working knowledge of Facebook and Twitter. I knew the history of Facebook such as where it started and why and also who the founder is. I knew about the court cases surrounding Facebook. Twitter, I knew was a form of “microblogging” or very short bursts of text about a subject, and that it was used by many celebrities and news stations to give real-time updates of what is going on. After reading through our text, I learned much more about the influences of social media sites such as YouTube in President Obama’s campaign in 2008. “Obama Girl,” the video made by Ben Relles and Abey Lee Ettinger in June of 2007 (New New Media, Levinson p. 59) is one of the influential aspects in the general populace vote. Though not officially researched, more of the younger generation of Americans (18-30 year olds) gave their vote to Mr. Obama. (p.59) I also had zero knowledge of the website Digg, never having used it myself. I learned that it is a news-listing service, basically articles posted on other sites are able to be “Dugg” or “Buried” by users of the site. The more “Diggs” an articles receives the closer to the front page the article appears, “Burying” is the opposite of that. (Levinson p. 100) “Friends” also seem to have a major role in Digg. Friends can see what you “Digg” and they can “Digg” it themselves thus moving the article closer to the front.
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