Discovering New Media with Eric

Virtual worlds can be used in many ways, one being such as having an area where you can explore and express your imaginations. For example, in a video game called Minecraft, it is a lego cartoon based virtual world created for children to be able to freely express their creativity and to be able explore the virtual world. Virtual worlds can also be used for simulations, escape from reality, video games, etc. The pros of virtual reality is that is can possibly and potentially be better than reality, it connects people, can be used for rehabilitation, provides a safe way to build skills in challenging or risky tasks, allows skills to be developed at one's own pace. The cons of virtual reality is that it can create a disconnection from the real world and the virtual world, it is costly, it could possibly reduce ones creativity. Virtual reality can be a really good thing if it was used on real life terms such as using it as like a second office. Rather than having an individual go to w...

How twitter discussions and blackboard discussions are compare is that they are both spaces where you can communicate with people for whatever reasons. On twitter, you could communicate whatever you want to since it has a plethora of things to talk about whereas blackboard is more so related to the school activities. Asides from that, they are both used to get concise and precise information quickly. For example on twitter, the newest fashion releases are posted there and on blackboard the latest homework, exams, grades are given there.

There are many types of social medias out there such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr. Each one has their own different purpose and they are all similar to a sense. What these social media websites have in common is that they are all meant to be used as a form of communication and human interaction. What differs them from each other is that they each have their own specialty or their own purpose. Twitter is for a short and concise way of getting information out to the public. Facebook is more versatile and has many things to offer such as images, video, messaging, games, etc. Instagram specialized in pictures and image posts. Tumblr is more so of a blogging type of social media.

Corporations and other businesses can use social media to help communicate and promote their business. Social media has now become one of the largest and most efficient means of communicating and getting word out to the public. Just as stated in the article, Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting, social media can be used to hire many individuals. Rather than having an old fashion and inefficient way of hiring people through physical resumes, you can now just use social media sites for hiring and screening potential employees. Websites such as linkedin and indeed. That's how companies like linkedin has a network of almost ten million employees. There are many benefits to social media, social media can be used to help innovate more futuristic and efficient ways of making life easier. Twenty years ago, if we wanted to get a job, we would have to look at newspapers and call them and wait for them to call you back, etc. Now we can just use websites such as linkedin and get ...

Blogs and wikis are both comparable and both have their pros and their cons. Both these methods are examples of how new media has evolved and changed throughout time. What the blog and wiki has in common are that they are both used for sharing, whether it be information or personal opinion,etc. Wikis and blogs are different off the get-go because wikis are for everything to edit while blogs are more personal for an individual or individual group of people. In today's networked world, the importance of convergence is great, whereas both these sources of new media can help impact and improve functionality and efficiency in today's fast paced society. Blogs are helpful and can be used for collaboration, because many people can give their inputs and opinions on things. For example, in the article , Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid, "Months later, the bloggers are celebrating, days after the police raided the two neighboring homes in question", this was due to the hel...

Ever since YouTube became a mainstream source of media, it has become one of the most popular websites. With the rapid increase in popularity, more and more users are using YouTube due to its user friendly platform and conveniency. YouTube has also become a source of income for many, many people create YouTube videos as a full time job. YouTube has become such a versatile source of media. Whatever you want you can find, videos related to comedy, skits, product reviews, instructional, lessons, etc. YouTube has revolutionized entertainment, before YouTube was mainstream, people would watch television, read books, go to the movie theater, etc. Now, we can spend hours on YouTube with access to a plethora of different videos on our computers or mobile devices at our own comfort for free.