My New Media Class - So Far

What kinds of technologies are part of the new media?
I believe technologies that affect and improve 5C's are all part of the new media.
Communication: The new media helps people communicate each other better, no matter where they are. Examples could be Blogs and E-mails. When E-mails were not around us, we need to send paper mail to people and it takes forever to receive a mail. However, sending mail via internet allowed people to communicate a lot faster.
Another example could be instant messaging system such as MSN live messanger or AIM. This technology is better than email because it is a instant message that is like a phone with no voice but written sentences.
Community: When you think about new media with community, the first thing that hits you in the head is the online social networking sites. Social networking sites allows people to socialize with a lot of people which it could be hard in "offline." In offline, there is limitation of places that you could meet new people but on online there is no limitations.
Collaboration: The example of collaboration could be wikipedia. Wikipedia is like a encyclopedia online but people could update the information if there are something to change. Simply, people get together (collaborate each other) and create perfect information.
Creativity&Convergence: the technology that goes with these 2 C's is google map with real pictures. If you want to find a location and what the location really look like, you could check out real picture that is avavilable. Another example can be found in the course reading material. One person who are going to work in silicon valley needed to find a house near his work place but he could locate how the house look and actual location so he "mesh up" google map and housing website to see the location and picture of house in one time.
How important is the Internet to the new media?
These improvement of 5 C's could be achieved because of the internet. As you can see in my previous answer for the previous question, these improvement all happend online with people around the world. If there was not such thing as internet, we would still live in slow and boring life.
Why and how are the new media replacing and / or enhancing the old media?
The new media sure is replacing old media. As you can see, now a days people are watching news, reading newpaper, listening music on handheld PC. This PDA sure replaced news paper, TV, and CDplayer (cassette player). People are willing to do multiple things in one time but with old media it was impossible to do that but the new media allow people to do things that they always wanted to do.

Social Networking

What are some ways that these technologies can be used?
-Social Networking in Corporation needs:
Social networking technology can give lots of advantages. First, through the social networking site, corporations can find talented new employees. Example of this aspect is the site called "Linked In." Anyone could upload their resume and brief introduction of themselves to let corporations to find talented people. Second, corporation could advertise themselves on the social networking site. Now a days, there is no one without the membership in some kind of networking site, so if the corporation advertise themself on that site it will be costless and very affective.
-Social Networking in Individual needs:
I had a friend who I couldn't find because I had to move to the US for studying, so I thought, I would not find him forever. However, the social networking site allowed me to find him really quick. (thanks to facebook) Like my example, these social networking site allow people to keep in touch no matter where you are.

What are the benefits of these technologies to society?
I think there are tons of benefits of social networking site. First, it allows to make a connection to people with similar interests and goals. (Like creating interest groups in Facebook) Second, sometime, it is hard to meet up with friends due to location matter. However, with networking site, people can get togerther no matter where they are.

Is there a "darkside"?
I think the only "dark side" for Social networking sites are privacy. When the facebook first came out there was no privacy between people. In other words, everybody could see all of other's pictures and writing on the walls. I heard that when the company are hiring new employees, they check people's facebook to check if their new employees are doing any "BAD" stuff...

The article about IBM shows that they are using social networking sites to hire new people and get connection with other IBM companies in all over the countries. Also the article about "allowing social networking site in company's computer" shows that it actually gave a lot of benefits to company such as finding and hiring new employees.

Book Review Outline

Title: New Media: An Introduction by Terry Flew

-Introduction:
-what is the book about
-who is the target of the book
-major topics that I'm going to talk about in the review

-Body:
-Overview of New Media(def...)
-Major Topic 1:Virtual Culture; social network, games...etc
-Major Topic 2:New Media and Economy
-Major Topic 3:Globalization with New Media

-Conclusion:
-How it realtes to what we learned in class
-did the book accomplish its purpose
-is there any changes to make in the book

Term Project Description

My term project is about the new media and cyberterrorism.
For the presentation, I will discuss about the definition of cyberterrorism in new media and how it used. Also, I will provide examples of terrorism and how it influence our life.
For the conclusion, I will provide how to prevent cyberterrorism and how governments treat cyberterrorism.

Blog vs. Wikipedia

Similarities: Blog and Wikipedia are both available in internet. Both media can be created and updated by anyone who have connection to online. Also, these media can be used for getting latest information about any topic.
In Blog if you want to fix something or give comment on creators' opinion, anyone could update it by give reply to those problems or topic. Also, like the Blog's updating process, Wikipedia can be updated by logging on to the site and make changes to what other's wrote on the site.

Differences: Between Blog and Wikipedia, there are about two differences. First of all, Blog is only for writer's own opinion on any topic so it could provide wrong information but for Wikipedia, it's almost like a encyclopedia which means that most of the time, it doesn't have any false information. Second, Blog is more personal cyber-space where as wikipedia has more scholarly articles. For example, if a person write his/her journals or diaries on some site, it can be called Blog but for Wikipedia, writing journals or diaries is not appropriate.

Importance in today's world: With Blog and Wikipedia's instant updates, people could obtain any information that they need anytime and anywhere they need as long as they have internet connection. I believe the pace of today's world is very fast so we need to update our information really fast so I think by Wikipedia and Blog is the most efficient way to update our knowledge.

Facebook vs Myspace vs Friendster vs Cyworld

I've recently joined Myspace and Friendster and I'm having really hard time learning it and getting use to it.

These two social network site is almost like the Facebook but it's little different...or I should say MySpace is more neat and "special." Not like Facebook, I could change my layouts of the contents and also change the colors of the windows but for facebook and friendster I could not do that so it's not that unique.

Also, the range of users are really different among those websites. The Friendster and Myspace seems more related to teenagers but Facebook is mostly for age of 18 and up...(for elders, too)

Because, I'm from Korea, I used korean social networking site called "Cyworld." But recently, this Cyworld site arrived in US.( http://www.us.cyworld.com/)

Cyworld has alot of cool features like picture with flash file which means slide show of pictures and alot of cute animated characters which allow people to decorate their own site.

I think everybody should change to cyworld because it's more easy to use and it looks a lot better than any other social networking site. You should check it out.