Blogs Vs Wikis

Blogs are posts that made on the website. Blogs is kind on personal diary, which is maintained and monitored by an individual, where a person can post news, ideas, pictures and videos. On the blogger, person posts their original opinion and leave readers to respond with their opinion. Wikis are a website that grows with the information. Anyone can contribute information on the web page by editing or adding more relevant information. Wikis are broader than blogs because anyone can accesses to it and contribute and modify content.

Blogs and wikis are different in the way they structure information. Blog posts are in reverse chronological order where the recent post shows at top. Wikis are typically organized by subject matter into a relatively stable hierarchy. Blogs grow linearly, post by post, where wikis grow geometrically as each area is added. Wikis are more open to public while blogs are limited to the author or identified groups. Blogs and wikis, both are new media mediums and both are very popular in nowadays. Anyone can create a blog or a wiki page and both have free access. Also, both wikis and blogs allow the users to link its page to other websites.

Convergence is very important in today’s world. New media can have different function but they all are connected through internet. The internet connects the user and gives them the ability to be more efficient in their work. Blogs are used for collaboration in which the creator of the blog can have links to other blogs that share the similar ideas. Reader can leave comments on post or also share additional information providing links to websites that relates with the blog entries. According to the article, “Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid” the community find out about event, which was happing in the neighborhood through blogs, is a great example of the use of collaboration in blogs.

Old Vs New Media

Old media is a web 1.0, a very much a one way street. Old media is an old way to transfer information such as radio, television and newspaper where new media is a new way to transfer information. New media is web 2.0 which allows people to interact with each other. A new way to exchange information is bloggers, podcasts, social networks and other interactive websites. Old media news defined by newspaper, radio and television, in which distributor and editor control the part of news. With new media, news can be gathered from many different sources such as bloggers.

The entertainment industry has also been greatly affected by new media technology. New media is taking over the television, which is part of the old media, through internet. Most of the people like to see their shows over the internet anytime and anywhere they want. Nowadays, most new media has an important connection with Internet such as online dictionary instead of paper dictionary. People like to use e-mail instead of using envelop to mail out the letter because it is more convenient and quick.

Description of my research topic

My presentation will be about the social networking and privacy issues. I will focus on some of the biggest social networks. Some people use networking sites to get personal information about somebody and then use the information for personal benefit or spread it all over. I will provide some examples and some youtube videos during my presentation. In my conclusion, I will give some suggestions of how to use the social networking sites correctly to avoid privacy issues.

What is New Media?

New media is a basic term of the many different forms of electronic communication that are made possible through the use of computer technology. New media technologies involve wikipedia, social networking, facebook, youtube, blogs etc. In the article, “Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid”, in the New York Times, a group of seven people who met through the blogs brought the case to the attention of the community and police authorities. A group of people who did not know each other come together and all this happen because of new media.
The internet is the biggest source of new media because it is where new media was invented and where it is currently expanding. The internet serves as a host of new media because websites that support new media like Blogger are based on the internet. In order for everyone to use new media they must have access to the internet. New media is winning over the old media such as newspapers and television. Most of the people choose to watch the TV shows on the internet, instead of television and also read the article on the internet.