•Session 2
•Media theorist
Marshall McLuhan said that “The medium is the message.” He is stating that the
medium has control over us in what we see and do, and this term can be used
with new media.
•What
is New Media?
•New media is defined
as interactive forms of communication that use the internet, including
podcasts, RRS feeds, social networks, text messaging, blogs, wiki, virtual
world and more!”
•Advantages
of New Media
•There are a lot of
advantages of new media, for instant we can tweet and check our status updates
on facebook from our phones. We
have the whole internet in the back of our pocket. We no longer have to wait on
the morning newspaper because we have the internet, the news channels have
breaking news now, channels like RTE, SkyNews, Fox and CNN have a bar on the bottom of the screen
with the headlines of news and when breaking news occurs it covers it also with
the internet we have a wider range of sources on some topics we can search till
we find unbiased opinions of the news. We can directly call people using skype free calls over the
Internet. It’s great for people who are living in America or Canada and
can talk to ones at home. We have more options of communicating now thanks to smartphones there is tons of
apps that we can get which allows us to talk and send texts for
free. We can create media ourselves with the Internet we can create
our own blogs and post our views of global events.
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•
•Apple have released
I-cloud this allows to work from our I-pads or I-phones and it sends our
updates on presentations on our computers, if we download music or take
pictures on the I-phone they will be on our home computer. We can see that the
“medium” of new media is the Internet and it has control over us because of the
amount of hours we spend on it a day.
•
•Disadvantages
of New Media
•New media has a lot
of disadvantages to it as well for instance we spend a lot of our time on
social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter etc. that we don’t interact with our fellow
students or work colleagues as much. News spreads fast on the Internet at an
uncontrollable rate once it on the Internet it’s hard to get it
off. Also if we are searching news topics online we can find some
extreme views on the subject that we might find disturbing. Another
disadvantage is cyber bullying children at school could be getting bullied non
stop when they go home and go on to sites like Facebook and Bebo and there still getting bullied this could cause the
child to get depressed or worse kill themselves. Paedophiles and stalkers can use social networking websites to get
valuable information on there pray, during the riots in England people could go
on YouTube and watch footage of it.
•
•The people in the
riots took pictures and posted them on the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Terrorist use the
Internet to post video of potential attacks. We have no privacy online anymore
any picture we post of ourselves are on the Internet for good it’s not safe for
us to put any valuable information online because someone could steal your identity
online use your credit card to buy anything. We can see that we our controlled
by the Internet but it can be danger for some who put themselves at risk be
outing their information online for people to look and steal.
•
•Advantages and
Disadvantages of Social Media as a News Channel
•Social media is a
vessel of information for everybody and what you put out there will effect not
only your life but can effect those that read what you publish. News sites and
social media feeds are updated every second with new data from regular users who
share news, events experienced, photos, gossip, scoops and the latest hot
topics. Users passionate about social media strive to keep up to date with
every little detail that happens on their web communities and can handle the
nonstop data coming at them.
•
•When people do not
log in often, they can suffer information overload when they access their
accounts. They find it hard to cope with the sheer amount of issues,
discussions, long threads, weard information, lies, spamming and concerns in the social
network where they belong.
•
•When you want to share
news in social media, all you have to do is type your message and click ‘Post’
or ‘Share’ and that’s it. There’s no need to submit it to anybody else for
proofreading, fact-checking or stylistic corrections. With one click, you can
inform the whole world of your news. So when reading anything you must take it
with a grain of salt, fact check it yourself if you plan to repost anything.
•
•One example of
breaking news that shaped our news day was when Frederic Dupoux tweeted about the
earthquake Haiti experienced last 2010. As soon as
his tweet came out in cyberspace everyone was alerted, news groups tried to get
to Haiti and charity organizations started sending help packages. Social media
has paved the way for anybody to report any event, whether it’s about the
groundbreaking of a local community building or a speech given by an important
government official.
•
•Since you have social
access to millions of minds, you can send pictures and posts about the latest
updates on issues relevant to your locality with maximum effect. Even a kid who
has witnessed an accident on the highway can post pictures and information
about the event on the web. All he or she needs is a phone camera and Internet
access.
•
•Social
networks, however, are not optimized to provide factual news accounts.
There’s too little space for reporters to give full accounts of what really
happened. Twitter, the most popular avenue for spreading online news, has only
140 characters for users to say their piece. In addition, finding the details
about what really happened is challenging so journalistic integrity can be
compromised.
•There
are some users who only focus on what they want to report, purposely leaving
out details that may shed a different light on the case. Because of this, news
accounts in social media sites are frequently inaccurate. It’s important
therefore to verify whether the news is true before you share what you find. If
you are reporting, please be careful while you try to capture that eyewitness
image or video for your update, post or blog.
SOCIAL MEDIA JARGON : UNDERSTANDING THE LINGO OF SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS
•Relationship: the connection or the linkage between users.
•Post: the
name for dissemination of original content into a network of users.
•Share: used
to describe sharing another's post through the same network.
•Response: a user's reaction or feedback on a post.
•Popularity: method to determine popularity of a 'post' within
the network.
•Private Note: direct and confidential user-to-user communication
within a network.
•Descriptors: the in-network methodology for labelling and categorising a post.
•Organisation: term used to describe how users can organise posts with the
network.
•Rewards: the way in which the user is rewarded for engaging
with the network.
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