I forgot the actual meaning of Piracy and had to look it up. Piracy is means the unauthorized duplication of copyrighted content. I didn’t realize that Piracy was that big of an issue with regard to movies and that the film industry was losing billions of dollars. With regards to illegal movies most people …
April 2018 archive
Apr 20 2018
Class Activity 4/19- Questions
The activity we had the class participate in was focused around their predictions of the future of online communities. They were divided into groups and asked to answer questions pertaining to the progression of online interactive communities will look like in the next twenty years. For example, the questions they were asked to answer were: …
Apr 19 2018
post
Out of what I comprehended from the articles they clarify how the young is appended to online networking. The impact that web-based social networking has on gatherings and groups has advantages and disadvantages. For instance there are online sites that enable the young to work in bunches together basically. A con would most likely be …
Apr 19 2018
Communities and Groups
after reading the articles it has shown me exactly how I already thought about the internet and this era. There are many pros and cons when it comes to social media. Social media helps us come together and gives us our platform to share our thoughts and opinions. But as a society we are too …
Apr 19 2018
Groups and Communities
Out of what I understood from the articles they explain how the youth is attached to social media. The effect that social media has on groups and communities has pros and cons. For example there are online websites that allow the youth to work in groups together virtually. A con would probably be is it …
Apr 19 2018
Social Software and Groups 4/19
Social software enables us to work together in groups because social media creates public platforms. As “Abundance in Scarcity” states, within a system, new boundaries are created while old ones are simultaneously destroyed. The Internet and social software can be thought of through the Hawaiian Slack Key Approach: people are conduits in which individual expression …
Apr 19 2018
Groups and communities
The article “Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?” spoke about something very interesting. “More conservative educators view social technologies as a product of the devil, bound to do nothing but corrupt and destroy todays youth.” This quote illustrates that the old school way of teaching. Using Print media are far more effective in learning. Unlike …
Apr 19 2018
groups and communities.
Reading these articles, I realize how attached and obsessed we are when it comes to social media. Social media has become a part of our everyday lives and some people cannot live without it. I mean that literally because social media actually pays some people’s bills. This week, we are discussing online communities and groups. …
Apr 19 2018
Groups and communities
These articles speak on how connected todays youth is with social media. In the article titled Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What? It says “More conservative educators view social technologies as a product of the devil, bound to do nothing but corrupt and destroy todays youth.” I found that interesting because sometimes I do …