Social Media Questions

1. I don't believe that professional production values will drop--the "homegrown" look is carefully constructed as an artistic touch to the media. This technique makes media seem more accessible and easier for amateur productions to recreate. However, amateur content will definitely improve--the quality of media has been rapidly increasing with technological advancements in the past few years, and there is no reason to expect anything less for the future.

2. Alexander McQueen:
our tags: dead, asphyxiation, twitter, mother, funeral, fashion week, Lady Gaga, Givenchy, Gucci, bold, outrageous, homosexual, shoes
Digg tags: designer, fashion, alexander, mcqueen, obit, icons, suicide

Our tags were much more in depth than the delicious tags; we looked at more smaller topics rather than the overall subject of the article. The fundamental ideas were the same, however; the delicious tags were more concise than ours were though.

3. Transparency is always an important concept, in my opinion. If ethics are not considered in every aspect of life, then the quality and authenticity of our interactions suffers greatly. It is not necessarily more or less important in different venues, but the action of being transparent does indeed change with the medium. Transparency is so important because the people you are communicating with need to be aware of the veracity and motivation for what you are saying. This transparency aids in the decoding of the message being sent and allows the receiver to better interpret the information being presented

digital nation part 2

After completing the video I was really educated on what technology is doing to us as a society. I was very shocked at the place where kids would go and play video games that had to do with war. I think that the reaction people had about it was a little too serious and not necessary. The games are not there to teach them how to fight, and the kids said it themselves that they know that the video games are not like what it is really like to be at war. To be shut down for that is ridiculous and no one would actually feel that they are trained enough to fight in a war based on the skills they have from playing a video game.

 Another part of the video that grabbed my attention was the amount of people who play video games. People play these games and have relationships with the people they are playing with and they have never met these people before in there lives. These people will play these games for years and never know what the other person looks like until they see each other at an annual convention. It fascinated me as a viewer to see these people at the conventions and how they could meet a significant other through the video games. 

Analysis of "Digital Nation"

From watching the first part of "Digital Nation", It really opened my eyes to see how obsessed people are with being in contact with others at all time. It seems that it effects the younger generation more then the older generation and as the years pass it continues to get worse and worse. Kids are getting cell phones in elementary school and are growing up with computers and new technology so it is almost hard to blame them for being so involved with it. 

It was interesting to see how people think they can multi task and succeed at it. I know that from a personal experience, if  I am in class and texting and on the internet all at the same time I know that it is very hard for me to concentrate on what is going on in class. College kids especially are  obsessed with knowing what everyone is doing at all times. Some people have with draws if they do not check their facebook pages five times a day. As I AM writing this blog my room mate is on facebook, using Instant messaging, listening to music, and doing homework all at the same time.

It surprised me how when someone is surfing the web they use more of their brain then if they are reading an actual book. To me I don't see how that is possible since when your surfing the web it is done so quickly, while reading a book it takes time and more concentration. I also think that the amount of radiation everyone is being exposed to whether its cellphones, ipods, laptops, ect, it is going to affect them in the long run. I know people who sleep with their phones in the bed with them, there is no way that that could be good for someone. 

Web 2.0 terms

User-generated content is refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end users.

Network as platform describe network services for internet scale distributed computing.

Long tail is a retailing concept describing the niche strategy of selling a large number of unique items in relatively small quantities. Usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities.

Folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.

Web syndication is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites.

Mass collaboration is a form of collective action that occurs when large numbers of people work independently on a single project, often modular in its nature.

Computer supported collaboration research focuses on technology that affects groups, organizations, communities and societies, examples are voice mail and text chat.
hosted services is a business that delivers a combination of traditional IT functions such as infrastructure, applications

Web applications is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network such as the internet or an intranet.

Social-software encompasses a range of software systems that allow users to interact and share data.

Video-sharing sites allows individuals to upload video sites to an internet website.

Wikis is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor.

Blogs is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

Mashups is a digital media file containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video, and animation, which recombines and modifies existing digital works to create a derivative work.

When putting this collage together, I wanted to show viewers the message and what the new Apple Ipad. The new technology shows how lighting speed it is and the advancement of it. The Ipad is a great use of music and will take the place of using hard cover books. Because of its new advances, everything is done with just the touch of a finger in an instant.