Baldeoprasad New Media - CIS 3810

New media, as discussed in my earlier blog post, encourages social interactions and fosters creativity through community and communication. This have proved true in my personal life through a wide range of applications, but predominantly in respect to my business professional account on LinkedIn. As a young student seeking to establish a successful career in finance, networking with other individuals with similar interests, goals and roles at institutions you wish to work with in the future. LinkedIn is a business professional platform that allows you to connect with other professionals in each respective industry and start conversations or review qualifications. This appealed to me and after creating an account and attending networking event, I found tremendous benefit in adding people to my profile so we could discuss topics further or to save as a reference further down the road. This simple act of conversation online through this platform was enabled by new media and mass communica

New media enables its users to be more creative due to the growing applications and spaced new media has come to impact. Not only have the sheer amount of applications to which new media can be applied increased, but the user base of these platforms enables users from all over the world to connect and work together and share ideas. Creativity is a great byproduct of new media but the true intentions of what they foster is a community. The essence of being a part of something bigger than yourself, to interact with other virtually and to establish relationships and find commonalities between a stranger and yourself. This community is where the creativity occurs because of the large pool of participants, who can interact regardless of age, gender, education level, wealth, or background. One effect of new media on creativity can be seen in ‘mashups’ which are a combination of different styles, lyrics, and eras of music laid over one another. In The New Yorker artic

The concept of virtual worlds is not new to us, but the applications of these virtual worlds has grown dramatically over the years. Applications have been extended to recovery for military vets suffering from trauma to training for military personnel in certain controlled situations to even aiding doctors and surgeons in the medical profession so they can practice real-time operations with no consequences. All of these new uses have grown with the growth of AI as well as Virtual Reality where children and adults alike are free to roam around worlds outside of their own and engage in situations they might not have otherwise done if given the opportunity. Although this may sound revolutionary, there are already many debates regarding the pros and cons of such applications and the effect virtual worlds have on society.  One pro to virtual worlds is the tremendous benefit it poses for practitioners and professions to excel their craft and perfect surgeries or train astronauts in landing m

A Twitter discussion board has many applications and uses aside from the common practices of this social media site such as sharing your status or updating your contacts on day-to-day tasks. The Twitter platform can be used by companies to track and monitor the feedback of their products or can be sourced by users to find out information about a company and their agenda such as community involvement. Twitter, compared to a BlackBoard discussion board, is much more dynamic and offers a two-way system of feedback that allows for your audience to not only listen to what you have to say, but also allows you the option to respond directly. This direct line of communication eases tensions throughout the platform and holds the author accountable to the audience in which he/she is targeting. The BlackBoard discussion board on the other hand allows users to comment under a thread, but strings out lists of comments and offers little means of carrying out a dialogue. Twitter compared to an in-cl

Upon visiting a range of social networking sites, predominately Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, I not only learned that different social media sites are used for different purposes, but also have an effect on the demographic of the user base as well as the magnitude of applications aside from the predominately noted uses. Facebook, for example, houses the largest amount of users who have created a profile, but is statistically less active daily than Twitter and Instagram. The demographic of active users on Facebook in the United States tend to lean toward an older generation, perhaps our parents or aunts and uncles looking to connect to family abroad or to just stay in touch with extended family. Media sites such as Instagram are focused primarily on photo sharing and therefore appeal to a younger demographic more technologically savvy. This is also true for the newest application reviewed in terms of release date, Snapchat. Snapchat is targeted towards the younger crowd, w

Social Networking has become a transformative tool in our society. Not only does social networking have an influence over our personal lives, but also noticeably more in our careers and daily interactions with one another. Some ways these technologies are used are in social interactions, as mentioned above. If you meet someone who is an opinion leader in their community, or a professional in their respective careers, you might want to add them to your social media following in an attempt to stay connected with current events or to get in touch at a later date and for them in return to gain a following. Another way social networking is used on a corporate / business level is through platforms such as LinkedIn which attempt to connect people within similar industries to one another for advice in their careers or to get recommendations for jobs or even to learn more about a company. One benefit of these technologies on society would be the interconnectivity of the world. Technology ma