Four Different Media Technology Assignment: Comm 480

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 Four Different Media Technologies

            In "today's society", people utilize technology through the World Wide Web to interact with friends, family, and the world. The Internet allows us to communicate through many different channels to get our personal and professional messages heard. Four different media technologies that will be discussed are Blogs, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. All four media technologies are utilized via the World Wide Web and all four have factors that make each unique.

Blogs

            A blog is a web log in a website where users post ideas and discussions, all displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs can be used to connect to other similar discussion and to offer comment and provide feedback. Owners of blogs are organization owners, public relation specialist, people in the entertainment industry, business professionals, mothers and your every day people that have information they want to share to the world. Blogs are great for real-time information from custom feeds and e-newsletters on preselected topics such as health, science, technology or business (Lannon, 2008). Blogs can be created to deliver personal or professional news to a small group of people. They allow people to create stories that one's network of people who think similarly, can read and discuss. Prior to blogs people received most of their news via newspapers, radio and television. Now with blogs anyone can be a reporter and deliver news and ideas at rapid and customized way. To create a blog all one has to do is visit a website such as www.blogger.com. There, a person can create an account, with a user name and password. Select create a Blog, enter a name, choose a template, and finally begin Blogging. To design a blog entry, select Add Post, enter a heading, compose your message in the main body, and then select Publish Post. One can click on View Post to see how it will appear to others when they read it (Bowles, 2010)

 Twitter

140 Characters in each tweet is the maximum allowed.

            Twitter is another form of blogging that is streamed through a social network website. Twitter can be accessed and used by all people through one's computers, tablets, and cell phones. Twitter enables people to post short statements describing what one is doing at any given time of the day. Twitter account holders have a maximum of 140 characters for each post, which is called a tweet, so brevity is required. Typically, people use Twitter to discuss some of the ordinary activities that they do during the day. People are simply answering the question: What are you doing? (Bowles, 2010). People who use twitter include, but not limited to, Politicians, Celebrities, Artist, Businesses, and Business owners, Teenagers, Athletes and College Students. My personal twitter is EdwinsMind, if a person wants to follow my posts, what they would do is search for my name and click the follow button or they can visit www.twitter.com/EdwinsMind. Here people can see and get daily updates of what’s on my mind. Not only can they see my past posts, they can also see my network of people that I follow and network of people who follow me. Twitter is a great way to interact with people like athletes and celebrities. A person can mention a persons Twitter name in his or her 140-character message and that person can choose to interact or not with his or her fan.  When watching the ESPN channel many athletes who own a Twitter account say certain aspects about the sport they play or their teams for their fans to learn about. One has to be cautious about what they say on Twitter because it can damage ones relationship with their business and with the public if a comment is taken out of context.

Facebook 

My Personal Facebook Page

            Facebook is a social networking website that is used by millions of people. Facebook allows people to blog, establish private networks, share photos, and locate friends. People can open an account, to share experiences through pictures, thoughts and creativity. People can look for friends from high school, work, and requests friendships. Once a person creates an account, he or she will create a profile page. Within the profile page, a user can share information to the world or ones private network about themselves. People can interact with one another if one receives or asks for a friendship request. Facebook’s biggest attribute is the Wall. The wall on Facebook, is like a big note board where an account holder and his or her friend's can post notes. The wall can be used as news feed because people often share ideas or live updates on politics, relationships, celebrities, and sports games. One also has an option to like an organization, athlete, celebrity or television show. When a person chooses to like a certain company, athlete or organization the organization usually post events, quotes, or news about them or the organization for their fans to enjoy. As a member of Ashford University's Facebook page, I receive up-to-date news about graduation, classes, and login portal problems. Facebook can be used to market one's company or as an individual. Facebook allows a person to see a Facebook friend's network. This is great because people get job opportunities, find relationships and attend events based on the network they know. If one chooses to expand his or her network, that person can have an abundance of resources to contact if in need.

 YouTube

            YouTube is a website that allows people to upload videos for others to see. There slogan is "Broadcast your self". Through YouTube, Entertainment sensation Justin Bieber was discovered and now is a world pop sensation. Anyone can post a video of them singing, teaching a subject, or a video of a funny live event, movie, music and share it so people can see it. People on YouTube, can share their skills and passion with the world. I have also used YouTube to learn how to cook, fitness techniques, and communication techniques from experts. I have friends who post videos of themselve's singing or performing live during an entertainment event. The hopes are for the video to become so popular due to how many viewers they get to watch that the video becomes viral. When it becomes viral, this increases their exposure to the world and can land a possible record deal. If a person is interested in watching videos about current events, TV moments from the past, hobbies, film trailers, lectures, visit video.google.com and enter some search terms. According to YouTube's own statistics, every minute of the day, viewers are uploading 20 new hours of video (Bowles, 2010)

References:

Bowles, M. D. (2010). Introduction to Computer Literacy. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc

Lannon, J. M. (2008). Technical communication (11th ed.) Ashford Custom. New York: Pearson Longman.