Gabrielle Boryga
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May 03 2018
Mashups and Potential Consequences
Mashups are an example of modern creativity in the Internet era (when it comes to video content). They can best be described as “unusual or innovative composition of content” (“Mashups: The New Breed of Web App”). As for whether or not I believe mashups are a potential copyright issue, I am a little torn over …
Apr 26 2018
Piracy and Privacy
Piracy has been around since the birth of the Internet. Most people have illegally downloaded a song, a movie, or an episode or two of a TV show. It is an (arguably) fast process, it’s pretty easy, and best of all it is “free”. However, when people download those songs or movies, they aren’t necessarily …
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 …
Mar 29 2018
Youth and Social Media
I found the reading interesting. I definitely agree that the youth of today are seen as “digital natives” while older people are considered “digital immigrants”. Youth these days have essentially grown up in the age of social media, and tend to be, for the most part, quite tech savvy when it comes to computers, video …
Mar 15 2018
The Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is a very interesting concept. These objects surpass the typical phone and computer devices that can connect to the Internet. To answer the question, I think there are pros and cons to being connected to essentially what would be a full-on “smart” world. Internet access is vital for education, work, school, …
Mar 08 2018
Digital and Reality TV
Television and its’ content has definitely changed over the last decade or so. Before, we paid $100 or more in cable each month. Now, we have advanced to streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc) and it seems to be the preferred method of watching television. As the article “The Future of TV: Digital, Traditional …
Mar 01 2018
Crowdsourcing 3/1
Crowdsourcing, from my understanding (and a Google search), is the practice of getting information into a task or project by using the services of multiple people. Companies that have grown alongside the age of the Internet are pretty much designed to take advantage of this networked world. The labor that these companies do isn’t free …
Feb 22 2018
Social Media and Political Campaigns 2/22
Social media has definitely been a vital tool for political news and election campaigns. People are tuned in more than ever, especially because of Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. Studies have shown that people of all ages, especially between 18-29 and 30-49, use Twitter to track politics at very similar rates. According to “Cell Phones, Social …
Feb 15 2018
Blogging vs. Traditional Media Outlets
Blogging has been around since the early to mid 2000s, but has only recently become more of an “institutionalized” medium on the rise. As “Why Bloggers Can’t Replace the Work of Journalists” states, blogging is a form of citizen journalism, which essentially gives anybody a platform to discuss, post, and curate whatever they want. It …