Bria Gaines
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May 24 2018
Final paper
Bria Gaines MCS 244 5/24/18 As we already know and learned throughout the semester technology is advancing more and more every day. We barely have to do anything ourselves now in days. There’s some sort of technology for any and everything that we want to do. Now, when you go to some restaurants they …
May 10 2018
Apps, blockchain, digital currency
I never noticed how much I don’t use my web browser until reading the article “ The Mobile Browser is dead, Long Live the APP.” After reading the article I tried to think of how many times I actually use my web browser, and the only time that I actually use it is if I …
May 03 2018
Mashups
Before reading these articles I thought mashups only came into play when it came to music. I never thought about the many different examples of mashups. The one that really shocked me the most was shopping mashups that was mentioned in the article “The new breed of web app.” I never looked at ebay and …
Apr 26 2018
Piracy and Privacy
Before reading these articles I have never heard of piracy. Piracy is “The unauthorized use or reproduction of another work.” I never realized how big piracy is. I know people always stream movies, but I guess I never realized how much money some of these people are actually losing due to piracy. Now it is …
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 …
Apr 12 2018
The medium is the message
This article was kind of hard for me to understand. I Think I have an idea of where he was going with the whole “medium is the message phrase.” On the first page McLuhan says “ for the message of any medium or technology is the change of scale pace or pattern that it introduces …
Mar 29 2018
Youth and Social Media
In this chapter the author uses two interesting terms, one called “digital natives” and one called “digital immigrants.” She describes “digital natives” as teenagers who grew up in the era where the internet has always existed. “Digital immigrants” on the other hand are adults who are supposedly less capable of developing those internet savvy skills …
Mar 22 2018
Media in a changing world
The last article “does globalization mean we will become one culture” was very interesting. The writer talks about the possibility of globalization turning into a homogeneous culture. He uses Starbucks as an example. He states how each year there’s new identical stores serving cups of near identical coffees, your morning cappuccino is the same no …
Mar 15 2018
The internet of things
Prior to reading these articles I had never heard of the term “blogject”. After reading these articles I realized that I have been in several encounters with blogjects. For example wearing a fitbit that tracks the amount of steps you took for the day. Or even my own phone. There has been times where I …
Mar 08 2018
Digital and Reality TV
These few articles spoke about digital TV and reality TV. In the article titled “The Messy, Confusing Future of TV? It’s Here” the author speaks about how now instead of actually watching certain TV shows, we stream it by using Netflix, Hulu or HBOgo. He also speaks about how Facebook plans on inserting a “watch” …
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