Creativity and New Media

What I did for this blog was create a Memoji. I did my best to create myself in the IOS software of an Apple iphone. These memojis are very cool and fun to do within any form of a conversation through text message. With your memoji once you create a model of yourself you can send different expressions of standard emojis, but with your face. Not only is it you, but you can send the standard emojis given, but create expressions out of them as well. Also, with your memoji you can send animoji. This when you record yourself through these memojis. It is fun way to use new media to foster creativity. It makes text conversations quite funny. 

HW Creativity

In the article "1+1+1=1" by Sasha Frere-Jones gives a perfect example of how media fosters creativity. In the article it talks about a DJ that is creating mashups of different songs. This DJ found different songs that either have the same tempo, same instrumental, and same genre. Because of this the DJ created songs that had a good flow to them. Any form of media can foster any form of creativity. An example can be Do it yourself (DIY) project. People can watch and/or see different things that will inspire them to do the same things or some variation of what has been done. Somebody can be watching a Youtube video of something being built and that person can now want to do the same thing. Because of that media platform it inspired some form of Creativity. Others can do what the DJ did with different songs or others can even make short mashup movies. 

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

There is many different ways that virtual worlds can be used. In the virtual world there is good things and bad things about it. The biggest pro in my opinion is that it connects people. Yes, it connects people in virtual reality, but it can translate to a real-life connection between people. People meeting up in real life and can end up becoming friends. An example of this came from the article "I’ve Been in That Club, Just Not in Real Life" by Dave Itzoff. In this article it talks about "Virtual Lower East Side" aka VLES. The author talks about his experience from going to club in the Lower East Side to going to the same club just in this new virtual world. While in this virtual world he meet somebody and only a few days later they met each other at a cafe in real life. They would go on to talk about the similarities between VLES and real life interactions. An issue that can be really exposed is the idea of being fake. People enter these virtual world behind a computer screen and create an avatar that can be nothing like them. These people can create a character that is nothing like them and it can end up one of two ways. The fake character can turn into the real life person which can also be good or bad. The other is that it can lower a persons self worth and/or self-esteem and make the person feel like "Why cant I be like this"? Everything has a counter to it. The article "Naughty Auties  battle autism with virtual interaction" by Nicole Saidi it counters my con of self esteem being brought down. This article talks about people with autism using it to help. People with autism sometimes have issues adjusting to society and its norms. Virtual Worlds help them with the adjustment to any real life situation. The way virtual worlds foster creativity is through the world that is made. Is the virtual world accurate to real life or a world of imagination. I think future virtual world wills look the way the world looks at that time. It can also be a world of imagination and a possible prediction of what the world can eventually look like. 

Blog: Social networking sites

The four social networking sites that I visited were Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. All four social networking sites have different look when you first go on them. They all have an inviting feel to them. Once you go on them you want to continue going through them to see what else you can find and do. They all have different approaches. Twitter and Facebook are similar in the way that they both have a nice blue color to them. Also, it has people writing them and posting pictures. They are all ways of communication between all people. Instagram is different in the way that it is mainly pictures and short stories that people can see. Youtube out off all the sites takes an approach that is less words and more visual. Youtube is sort of face to face interactions. For jobs for example of a person who is hiring can post a video explaining the company and what the job opening is. Sometimes it is better for a video to be posted with the person actually saying something rather than just words. Facebook and Twitter is similar and it can also do both. All sites have ways to interacting with people and can be informative.

Blog about Twitter

Twitter discussions, blackboard discussions, and in-class discussions are all different in their own ways. Twitter and blackboard discussions are similar in the fact that they are internet discussions that people that follow you or are in your class can see and comment on. I feel that the main difference between the two is how much can be said. On Twitter we are limited to a character count. So, for us to express an opinion or summarize an article we have to be short, simple, and to the point. For blackboard discussions on the other hand have no character limit. We can write as much as we want and will be able to get a point across in a single post. To make a point on Twitter can be for example 3 posts and may lose its feel because of that.

When it comes to Twitter discussions and in-class discussions they relate on the fact that it is constant back and forth on opinions or ideas or whatever the topic may be. Twitter has notifications if a comment is made on your post and you can respond and keep going. It is similar to a in-class discussions if there is agreements or counters on a response. But, in an in-class discussions they are immediate with no breaks in between comments. In-class is face to face and not behind a screen where maybe you look up things to further prove your point. 

Blog Social Networking

Some ways social networking can used whether it is corporate or anything else is to put something out there for everybody can see. These things can be a product, an opinion, job hunting/searching or maybe an idea that just needs a following to get going. The main things in my opinion are product placement/advertisement and job hunting/searching. In an article “Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting” by Frank Langfitt he talks about how great social networking technology is great for recruting and mentions Linkedin. Langfitt also supports his claim with an example showing a recruiter searching people to fit a job position and found a person on Linkedin that fit the position perfectly. With this form of technology it makes it easier for companies to find and hire people that they feel is best for them. There is a “dark side” to social networking. This “dark side” can come from products. In an article “How to Build a Community on Social Media” by Sara Lavenduski mentions a small company getting recognition on several social media sites. While the CEO is happy with being noticed, he does realize that he isnt up there with the big companies. That is where the “dark side” occurs. Social networking gets you recognized, but you can easily be looked over or even worse have your product copied. As you can see recruting and product advertisement are just a couple of benefits of social networking.