New
Technology improves every day where virtual reality would be helpful as the next
new media. With virtual reality, you can use holograms or specially design
glasses to see 3D images. This is very beneficial to the gaming world where
images from the games are more realistic. Holograms are very useful when it
comes to clothes and cars where it allows a person to see the image in person. While
virtual reality requires a person to wear 3D glasses, this would improve the
gaming world where you will get more exercises than from the Nintendo Wii. Also,
virtual reality can help a person get over the fear of learning a new language.
A person will be able to learn a new language a lot faster from virtual
reality.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
P2P File Sharing
File
sharing is the use of distributing and providing access to digitally store
information like computer programs. P2P file sharing is known as peer to peer file
sharing. P2P file sharing uploads and downloads data from other users. This
allows many people to share files with other people in the world. Many people
share files through an USB flash drive where information is stored in the flash
drive and can be uploaded to other computers. According to the article “Should
Online Scofflaws Be Denied Web Access?” by Eric Pfanner, the American entertainment
has accounted a loss of $20 billion a year in sales. Many lawmakers have vowed
to increase the scrutiny of the international markets because piracy has been
widespread. Companies aren’t able to make a lot of money like in the past due
to the increased popularity of file sharing.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Creativity
Creativity
is the process of creating and experimenting something new to showcase a talent
a user has. With the help of new media, users are able to go on Youtube and
upload a video of their creativity which may inspire another person to improve
on it. A lot of people have become famous from uploading a video on Youtube
showing their creativity. From the article “1 + 1 + 1 = 1” by Sasha
Frere-Jones, there has been a revolution in music. D.j. are able to mix together
tracks with different beats to see how it will sound before using them. The
music that d.j. are able to mixed together now unlike before is due to the revolution
of new media. The music today are very similar to music from the past but most
of the times, no one notices it.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Modeling Reality With Virtual Worlds
Virtual
worlds can be a great way to experiment with life. From the article "In
Room 100, It’s Sid and Nancy All Over Again"by Saki Knafo, Hotel Chelsea was
remade by Michael Brown in an online game called Second Life. This shows how
powerful the virtual world is when you can are able to create a whole new 3-D
world by what you see in your fantasies. He took pictures of the hotel on his vacation
last year to help him construct the virtual one. According to the article “iReport:
'Naughty Auties' battle autism with virtual interaction” by Nicole Saidi, the
virtual world allows people with autism are able to interact with other. This
allows them to feel better and able to cope with their troubles to communicate.
The
pros of a virtual world are it saves time to travel to the place and the cost
of traveling there. Virtualization allows people to interact with each other
without feeling insecure about the appearance. Virtual World may be a great
experiment with life. An example is when a user of the virtual world is moving
furniture around which may lead to a career in architecture. The cons of the
virtual world would tie up technology. In order to set up a virtual world may
be costly. If a user becomes addicted to the virtual world, they may lose connection
with the social world.
Foster
creativity would be a great plus to the virtual world. It allows users to use
their creativity to collaborate from what they see in real life and incorporate
that into the virtual world. I believe virtual world will continue to develop
and the amount of users will increase. I believe the virtual will be more
populated and there will be more servers to support them.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Social Networking Sites
Right now the most popular social networking site is
Facebook follow by Twitter and Myspace. As Myspace started to decline, Facebook
began to rise to the top. Facebook keeps everyone in touch with their friends
and family. It is also a place to advertise. The news feed in Facebook allows
others to socialize with each other. Facebook has information about a person
like their relationship status, education, workplace and residence.
Myspace used to be one of the most popular social
networking site. Myspace had a feature where you were allowed to list your top
friends. Myspace allow the user to design their homepage unlike Facebook. The
background theme could have been used as advertisement. In your homepage, you
were allowed to set up a song for everyone to hear when they visit your page.
Twitter is a social networking site that is getting
more popular. People on twitter usually tweets about what is happening in their
lives. This allows the followers to see what your personality is like and what
is on your mind. If a person likes your tweet, they may re-tweet it.
Friendster is a social networking site I used to
use. It is very similar to the previous social networking sites. The site allowed
users to play online games which are different from Twitter and Facebook.
People on Friendster socialize from forums and blogs which Facebook, Twitter
and Myspace don’t offer.
Blog about Twitter
Twitter offers a very different experience than BB
discussion and in-class discussion. Twitter only allows 140 characters which keep
the “tweets” short and easy to follow. This is a concern for some people
because they may not be able to tell their point of view with only 140
characters allowed by twitter. A BB discussion is more about a topic and people
can post their responses in a detailed way. Twitter only allows a short
response to someone post. In-class discussion only allows you to discuss a
certain topic during the class time but you can discuss on twitter throughout
the day. Twitter allows people to speak their mind and not a certain topic like
a BB discussion and in-class discussion. Also, Twitter is more popular than
blackboard so it is more accessible from portable devices like mobile phones.
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