Seems simple yet can you describe it clearly?
Social media is more than just interaction between people who uses media as the platform.
Social media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
A category of sites that is based on user participation and user-generated content. They include social networking sites like LinkedIn or Facebook, social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, social news sites like Digg or Reddit, and other sites that are centered on user interaction.searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html
The term social media describes media that is posed by the user and can take many different forms. Some types of social media are forums, message boards, blogs, wikis and podcasts. Social media applications include Google, Facebook and YouTube.www.batchblue.com/glossary.html
Software tools that allow groups to generate content and engage in peer-to-peer conversations and exchange of content (examples are YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace etc)www.bottlepr.co.uk/glossary.html
The term social media is used to describe the use of today’s technology of distributing information and encourage people to connect with one and another who share the same interest.
According to Mahalo.com:
Social Media is a term used to describe new media formats such as message boards, social network, blogs and virtual worlds. These services encourage participation from the public and allow users all over the world to create direct connections with one another.
Take a look at this video to get some ideas of what social media really is:
Well that sums up the basic understanding of social media.
Now let's proceed to this week's discussion for the MLC0013 class: Discuss how this new phenomenon is affecting your life and the lives around you.
1st critical reflection - Depend entirely on others opinion?
It seems that people will never really think for themselves to enhance or correct something, instead they will rely on other people’s word. Let’s take a picture of scenery and upload it in flickr for example. Some will say that it is a good picture while others will say that there is nothing special about it or it is a bad picture. If the person who commented on your picture is someone who is a well-known photographer or a good and established judge, then their comment is highly valuable. But since anyone can access this platform of communicating, how sure are you to accept each one of the comments? What if a drunkard or a kid who doesn’t have any qualification to judge your work, commented on your picture? They may pretend as a people who knew everything about certain fields and fake about it, or they just some bad photographers and unworthy judges. Even if you taken a beautiful picture of the Petronas Twin Tower and u didn’t know how beautiful it really is, then you accept the comment of others saying it is a bad picture. Wouldn’t it be a waste?
What I’m trying to say here that we can’t fulfill all the people’s heart and desire and give them what they want. You may get a bad comment on your blogs, pictures, videos, arts and all sort of other things. Even so, it is still a good way to share information and common interest with each others. Debating in this way will enhance oneself to correct and to do something better in the future.
On the other hand, social reviews are used to provide user feedback on everything from products to movies. Many companies pay for reviews, and of course, there are always those freebies floating around. Many experts say that a bad review can literally destroy a company. But if they get a good review, then the rate of the company will get high up and becomes a blast!
2nd critical reflection- Alter ego?
The existence of social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Friendster have cause less interaction between people in real life. People may unable to get along very well since they are used to interact with people online rather than meet together face-to-face.
People who are quiet and doesn't get along with people in real life, are sometimes different in the world of social networks. They maybe have lots of online friends and very responsive on comments towards another. Some people may looked like a talkative person through the net with their cheerful words when replying or sending comments actively on other people's page. But in real life, he/she maybe just a shy person who doesn't talk much.
Also, there is Web Logs, better known as blogging which is an interactive websites where individuals regularly make posts and allow readers to comment. This is also a personal way of expressing oneself to let out their thoughts and feelings about some current issue or what happens on their daily life.
Personal Reflection
Mr Radzi gave us a lecture about media in social life and how does media effect us as a consumer. I understand little bit more on a purpose to learn about media culture. But I couldn't quite get it clearly though about the lecture on that topic. Maybe the lecturer using the mono tone voice which caused myself unable to concentrate or is it just hard to understand. But I'm getting a hang of it and I hope I could understand the whole idea of each of the lecturers trying to give.
with passion,
~Fadhil~
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