Andy Kuang's Blog

New media websites and applications allow people to post up creative content they create, and share them. Youtube is a great example of a new media that fosters creativity. An example of creativity that was posted on youtube were videos of disney characters, edited to look like they were rapping popular rap songs (Disney). Although, there may be copyrighted issues when making these videos, Nickelodeon actually supports people using their copyrighted content in making their own creative videos. Youtube has millions of users all over the world, where it allows them to post up any type of video as long as its appropriate. This allows people to post up their own creative content, and share it among the world. Creative videos that are posted on youtube can go viral, amounting to massive amount of views around the world. Youtube allows people to make any video they like, whether its educational, or gaming, or just comedy; which gives them a lot of freedom for their creative imaginations to g...

Virtual worlds can be used for interaction among children, (After). In the article After Second Life, Can Virtual Worlds Get A Reboot , a virtual world created that children can use is a game called Minecraft. This allows children to be able to exercise their creativity and "imagination" without being monitored by parents all the time, (After). Virtual worlds can allow people to interact and connect with each other in way that is different than physical interaction. Another pro about virtual worlds, is that soon enough they will be able to be accessed through just web browsers, and even on mobile devices. There are also many cons of virtual worlds. "Virtual worlds may impact real-world behavior" (Virtual). If in a virtual world game, a player plays the villain, it could impact them in real life, by making them more likely to "punish strangers" (Virtual). Virtual reality can affect peoples' decisions in real life. Also in virtual games like Grand Thef...

A Twitter discussion can be very similar and different from Blackboard discussion. Blackboard discussions limits us to a group of people that are connected to each other, while Twitter allows people to follow and connect with other people around the world. On Twitter, when a user tweets, there is usually a character limit, where they cannot tweet a huge paragraph, but on Blackboard, you can write a paragraph or so, but under the title of a post. Also on blackboard there are threads of topics, where you can easily be organized with your posts, and find what specific posts you would like to read. Also, you can comment on everyones posts, and its easy to see who wrote what.

The 4 social networking websites I will compare are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (Website version), and Tumblr. These 4 social networking website are very different from each other. Tumblr is a blog where users can post text, videos, pictures, and also reblog other people's post to share the content. Comparing that to the Instagram website, Instagram allows people to post only pictures and videos, and only allows them to like the posts, or comment, or even share it privately to other people. Tumblr and Instagram can be very similar because they both allow users to have their own profiles that consists of posts they created, but Tumblr allows users to show other people's posts on their own profiles. Facebook and Twitter also have many similarities but also differences. Facebook and Twitter allows users to post a status for everyone in their new's feed to look at. The difference is that Twitter has a character limit on their tweet posts, while on Facebook, you can write as mu...

There are many ways social networking technologies are used in society today. One new way that its been used is "Professional recruiters have started hunting for job candidates using social networking technology — like the kind found on the popular sites MySpace and Facebook" (Social). Social networking can help people who are job hunting, find a job, and for company recruiters to hire more employees for their company. Social networking technologies could help company recruiters find specific targeted potential hires. For example, if a company is looking for someone with this specific skill or degree in lets just say, NYC. They can search for that through Facebook, and more specifically, LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a social networking technology where people create their own profile of their skills and resume. With this, recruiters can search through LinkedIn to find exactly what potential hires they would want for their company. Social networking technologies allow many people to ...