Social Networking and Virtual Worlds

Corporations are using Facebook as means to selecting potential employees, although it is a social networking site, potential employees' have the ability to individualize their pages and corporations use that as means to judge whether or not applicants are a right fit for there organization
The benefit of technologies such wiki's, social networking sites and virtual worlds, it gives the ordinary citizen the ability to display their individual uniqueness and it can also act as a tribe by building on everyones collective knowledge and transforming that into advance knowledge where everyone contribute or gain knowledge
I believe that future can and will starting eliminating the current interviewing process by incorporating new media such as such wiki's, social networking sites and virtual worlds in to their interviewing techniques by starting the selection by going on applicants Facebook accounts viewing how they choose to represent themselves and using virtual worlds at a later stage of the interviewing by see how applicants react under different circumstances

Integration

Title: Integration

Jenkins starts the first chapter with the anatomy of knowledge based community. Where he's illustrates the operation of a particular knowledge society focused the hit reality television show, Survivor. Furthermore, the allure of survivor was the show ability to maintain the winner of show from becoming public knowledge, even three month's after the final episode has been shot. As a result, the show's level secrecy created an atmosphere where the audience could play detective, and a special group of viewers known as the "spoilers" were born. The spoilers are a community of survivor fans the gather Intel on crucial information pertaining to the show and air this information on-line moments before it's aired on the show. as a result, the t.v. show became an on-line experience and this gave the fan an outlet to become interactive with one of their favorite t.v. show's. On the flip side, the next chapter dealt with how corporation's are now using consumer's favorite's show a means to market their products thru expressions as a pose to impressions. when companies use impression as their core marketing concept, they are referring to quantity of viewers of a particular programming and solely based on the amount of transaction thru veiwership. However, marketer is starting to utilize the expression strategy where companies by trying to understand how and why viewers react to content, focuses on consumer loyalty and quality of viewers. Also, third chapter focuses the Matrix movie. Although, it was not the first movie to attempt transmedia level opening, the matrix had the most success thru its movie trilogy, comic book series, it's game, and anime film. However, what it delivered in varied media formats, they over shot what they expected from fans. They envisioned an entertain experience like none other, but by doing so they the incorporated crucial elements of a particular scenes that you would have to receive from an other media outlet. As a result, viewers with one or limited format(s ) where lost by one having access to all of the media. next, this chapter goes in the complex nature of not just being a fan of star wars but creating your own content through a short film and how the movie studio deals letting fans create their own material without creating an extension to the film and an maintain theirs fan.

The idea that internet is making it possible for people of different backgrounds come together with a common; to share knowledge is amazing to me. I believe it gives people the able to inform the least knowledgeable and it may on the information one may already know. Furthermore, sharing and building of information is making it possible for people solve major world problems like our current economic issues. Also, my opinion is if companies invest their advertising in show with the most viewer loyalty, it would create a space where shows of better quality would start to get picked up a pose to the shows with more veiwership. However, that leave's room for our favorite's show to get exploited by major corporations.

His books goal is to inspire people to take a proactive part in various formats of media whether new or old. i think people will get inspired excited about how a person can utilize and integrate the different media outlet. I believe its text is reliable because it gives both sides of every argument and let's the read make up their mind. This book is not pigeon hold to race, gender, socioeconomic status, the demographic for this book is anybody that is capable of utilizing a computer and internet.

Bibliography

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Henry Jenkins, 2006, New York University Press,366pp

Blogs vs. Wikis

Blogs and wikis are similar in nature because they involve people having to log in to partake in it for it's existence. However, they are different where blogs are more individually created and personal , where as wikis takes more group participation and assumes that every person contributing is knowledgeable in whatever topic being tackled.Convergence in technology is becoming more important in that most things tend to over lap and it will eventually will pop up in new media. For instance, people who contribute to wikis can when giving similar interest can collaborate, then start their own group and act as one uniformed blog on a wiki site and vice verse, where bloggers collaborate on common interest,add their own personal knowledge, and act like a wiki to a collaborated a topic.

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My New Media Class – So Far

What kinds of technologies are part of the new media? new is not just internet, the also add a more human element to it where people can collaborate on web based site like wikipedia, where people with all different types' of backgrounds can work on together to provide information on one particular subject. People can stark their create by start their own blog where people can expose their own unique perspective and go on social site like myspace where can create their own sense of community.

How important is the Internet to the new media? I believe without the internet their would be no such thing as new new media. It would make close to impossible for the average person to provide their sense of news the way blogs site can on a global scale, without being economically efficiency of a huge corporation.

Why and how are the new media replacing / enhancing the old media? New media is enhancing old media by providing an outlet for average people to break news that old media may not catch on to.

My Term Project

It has long been known that there has been a divide among the general population between African-Americans and Caucasians in the United States; one can see the disparities amongst African-Americans from educational and socioeconomic attain, to losing out on equal salary rates and high level positions to their equally qualified counterparts. Consequently, it is not a mystery that some of these similar issues would spillover to the technological divide that exist among African-Americans.