A blog is similar to a wiki in many ways. They both allow people to relay some sort of information to those who want to see it. They also both provide a place where people can go to add their two sense on a particular topic. Lastly, they both may provide links, document, and/or images from other sources. A difference between the two is that wikis allow multiple people to post and edit whereas a blog only allows one. Another difference is that a blog allows you leave comments on what you just read while a wiki doesn't.
Convergence is a major part in today's world just because it allows people to meet and work together. Through the use of blogs and wikis this is possible with ease and it's of little or no cost. A prime example of convergence and collaboration can be seen in Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid by Michael Wilson. It all started with a group of people watching then they started blogging, and going to community board meetings, followed by complaints to the 68th Precinct until a investigation started that lead to arrest.
Sort of like our class wiki page, a new use for a wiki can be a database with a community of students posting up class notes, practice exams etc. This would be a place to visit to get some materials you might have lost or a place to get some study aids.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Project Description
Title: Ebay: community or bazaar?
As of now I plan to analyze how Ebay impacts affect the sales of traditional retailers.
As of now I plan to analyze how Ebay impacts affect the sales of traditional retailers.
Or looking at it on a more “new media” way I can look into how the Ebay community adds to value though the discussion boards and rating of transactions, along with how using customer data enables them to make recommendation to potential buyers and if this strategy was successful. Along with this I plan to weight the pros and cons Ebay has on our society; with the ultimate goal of answering the topic Ebay: community or bazaar?
Describe New Media
How can one describe "new media" well to me new media is a new form of technology that eases the process of publication. Keep in mind this is not limited to what a person wants to tell the world... It's more like what a person has to share to the world whether it be an encyclopedia (which everyone helps put together aka collaboration 1st of 5 C's), an opinion, a song, a video, update of what's going on etc.(creativity 2nd of 5C's). New media is interactive which means it allows people to comment on the original piece or reply to other comments left by others. Since anybody can leave comments (Communication, the 3rd of 5 C's) anytime it creates a dialogue between a group of people with similar interest thus forming a little community of peers (4th of 5 C's) where they can meet occasionally through the web and talk (convergence 5th of 5C's).
Technology that would be considered new media would be anything that's associated with the Web 2.0 movement. This "refers to the second, more social generation of the Internet,"(CNN) where people get, creative, involved, work together on projects and share works they've completed. The most well known Web 2.0 websites are facebook.com, youtube.com and wikipedia.com.
To distinguish new media from old media one must look at how the information is being shown to the audience. Old media refers to print like books or broadcast like TV; the author is basically feeding you information. Now on the other hand new media like blogs allow you to have a say in what you were just told. In the case of blogs you can leave a remark and others would do the same and so on kind of like a good old chat but through text via the Internet. Like what Melissa Gerry said in her article, Celebrity Blogs: The Impact of New Media, "Blogs are having an effect on where and how people are receiving information. Through blogs, people are able to write about topics that interest them and comment freely on what is going on in their lives and in the world around them."
Gerry, Melissa. "Celebrity Blogs: The Impact of New Media." Associated Content (2006): n. pag. Web. 14 Sep 2010. http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_type=article&content_type_id=26280.
Sutter, John D. "English gets millionth word on Wednesday, site says." CNN (2009): n. pag. Web. 14 Sep 2010. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/10/million.words/index.html?iref=mpstoryview.
Technology that would be considered new media would be anything that's associated with the Web 2.0 movement. This "refers to the second, more social generation of the Internet,"(CNN) where people get, creative, involved, work together on projects and share works they've completed. The most well known Web 2.0 websites are facebook.com, youtube.com and wikipedia.com.
To distinguish new media from old media one must look at how the information is being shown to the audience. Old media refers to print like books or broadcast like TV; the author is basically feeding you information. Now on the other hand new media like blogs allow you to have a say in what you were just told. In the case of blogs you can leave a remark and others would do the same and so on kind of like a good old chat but through text via the Internet. Like what Melissa Gerry said in her article, Celebrity Blogs: The Impact of New Media, "Blogs are having an effect on where and how people are receiving information. Through blogs, people are able to write about topics that interest them and comment freely on what is going on in their lives and in the world around them."
Gerry, Melissa. "Celebrity Blogs: The Impact of New Media." Associated Content (2006): n. pag. Web. 14 Sep 2010. http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_type=article&content_type_id=26280.
Sutter, John D. "English gets millionth word on Wednesday, site says." CNN (2009): n. pag. Web. 14 Sep 2010. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/10/million.words/index.html?iref=mpstoryview.
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