...Media Fast Writing Assignment Last Tuesday, I attempted to unplug myself from the world of media and see how it affected my everyday life. After trying to disconnect myself from everything that involves media, I realized how much I rely on it to get me through each day. I was never this aware of its presence in today’s society until disconnecting myself. Without media to rely on, I found myself having to readjust my whole normal routine just to get through the day. At the start of the day I found myself stressed, unorganized and uneasy. I use my cell phone as an alarm and by turning it off the night before I found myself waking up every few hours for fear of over sleeping. As I headed to my first class I paid attention to various things that I normally never would before. I am usually flipping through my phone, checking emails and replying to texts, but that morning was different. I walked with a relaxed pace to Dodge Hall with my head up and found myself greeting people I knew. As class began, I was immediately able to focus on the material being presented, rather the usual multitasking I tend to do. However, not feeling the constant buzz from my blackberry in my pocket made me somewhat tense throughout the morning, thinking that I was missing some sort of important information. Normally I check my phone every fifteen minutes or so, even if I’m not texting, or communicating in some way ,just to see if I’ve received anything. Realizing this really opened my eyes as to how...
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...Is social media beneficial in all the ways Social media has become an integral part of our lives. The widespread use of the social media has allowed critics to emerge and talk about the negative influences of it. As far as, it is something very obvious that excessive use of one thing can lead to a variety of problems; it is always recommended to stick to moderation. For this reason, moderation is also the key to balancing the effect of social media. “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots” (tech-surpass). If we look out our surroundings, we can witness that the day has come. I have four hundred and eighteen friends, yet I am alone. This is a new type of loneliness where...
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...Social media is something almost every person has and uses constantly. Students are distracted by phones and media all the time. It has been shown that grades are lower for students that use phones in school, rather than students that do not. Students that do not use phones in school tend to get better grades because they are paying attention to what they are learning in class, and not focusing on their phones or media. Students that use phones in class tend not to care about what they are being taught, or just cannot take their eyes away from whatever they are doing on their phones. Many young children also use social media and can end up being very unsafe. Online predators and scammers are able to get in touch with anyone who has social media. Children are more likely to get caught up in situations because they might not know what is going on, or who they are talking to behind the screen. Most children do not think about putting their accounts on private and allow anyone to see what they post, their...
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...102 Media Fasting Essay #3 Fasting from social media or any type of media for a whole twenty four hours is pretty hard. During this time of pure meditation from the digital world was a good way for me to understand, why we need media and why it’s also not needed. Since I was born, I’ve always been surrounded by technology, even the earliest stages of the internet. Most of us today use social media, television, or even our phones to obtain news and information around us. Personally I couldn’t tell you the last time I read a newspaper to know what’s going on in my community. Media is making our lifestyles a microwavable generation where everything is quick and handed to us. Not knocking technology or social media because I feel like it’s much easier to get information in the palm of your hand. But one thing I notice about using too much technology is that we are slowly losing face to face communication skills. More people use texting as a main source of communication and I’ve seen my peers write essay papers like the way they text which isn’t a good trait to obtain. By doing this fasting from technology, I felt at peace for a while, felt like I didn’t have worry about people or the world. Sometimes we don’t even realize how stuck on our phones we be or even the fact that we check our phones even when no one has called or text us. Media is influencing us in our everyday lives, by commercials, reality shows, and even game shows. Realizing that it’s more to life than just...
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...Assignment 1 Advertising Campaign Mrk312 Consumers are more knowledgeable than ever before. The internet and the adaptation of social media through mobile devices have allowed the flow of information to travel faster than ever before. The worries of one consumer can quickly become the doubts of thousands if not millions within a short span of time. In terms of cancer and general human health, plastic has become an important issue. Plastic is a concern for both the environment and for the health conscious. Plastic is a synthetic material created by combining materials derived from sources such as petroleum, natural gas or coal. These polymers then must be combined with additives to give the finished product properties such as flexibility or toughness (Life Without Plastic and Mama Mundo Inc., 2013). The shelves of sporting goods stores and general retailers are lined with bottles that market BPA free, but that isn’t enough for some consumers. BPA free plastics still contain chemicals that can interfere with normal human functions. Many of the chemicals in the plastics are not know because they are considered proprietary information by the manufactures (Terry, 2011). With so many unanswered questions about the safety of plastic a market niche has developed consisting of consumers looking for alternatives to plastic water bottles. One material that has promise is stainless steel. Stainless steel water bottles do not require linings made from plastics such...
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...Print Media Vs Electronic Media We are living in a rapidly developing and modernized era where technology is taking charge in every walks of our life. This technology may come with many advantages and disadvantages as well. Every development is due to rapid modernization, improvement of old administration methods and the use of new technology to make things even better. However with the growing modernization human demand for knowledge is also increasing. Media serves an important role in keeping people informed about the events and innovations around the globe. This information may reach us in two forms, either through print media which is the oldest method, or the other one can be electronic media. With the improvement of electronic media during past few years and daily reports on achievements, electronic media has dominated over print media during past few years. Print media is the oldest form of Mass Media, and still not outdated. Daily about 70% of people start their day by reading newspaper, which is the oldest media around the world. Newspaper gives us information about whole world within few minutes of reading session, with a choice to skip the topics that we are not really interested about. Print Media still forms an important part of Media Industry which has been given a competition by electronic media and a new technology called e-newspaper applications. But still newspaper holds its value even today and is competing strongly with technology backed media. Basically...
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...Social media is a constantly developing technology that is mainly used for communication and sharing information through applications and websites. Facebook is both an application and a website that allows users to commune and share information. Its users stretch around the world; as a result, spreading information at a fast rate. Due to the mass spread of information it can occasionally be over exaggerated or a fabrication of the truth. Thus, creating skepticism for people. The Circle portrays a futuristic, dystopian social media, that manipulates the user to be at constant notice, thus slowly consuming them. All the circlers who are consumed, have a tendency to spread it throughout all the other circlers like a virus. In our immediate community...
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...Pogatchnik, S. (2009). Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote. Retrieved May 12, 2009, from http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090512/ap_on_hi_te/eu_ireland_wikipedia_ hoaxer DUBLIN - When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he said he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news. His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked. The sociology major's made-up quote — which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28 — flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia quickly caught the quote's lack of attribution and removed it, but not quickly enough to keep some journalists from cutting and pasting it first. A full month went by and nobody noticed the editorial fraud. So Fitzgerald told several media outlets in an e-mail and the corrections began. "I was really shocked at the results from the experiment," Fitzgerald, 22, said Monday in an interview a week after one newspaper at fault, The Guardian of Britain, became the first to admit its obituarist lifted material straight from Wikipedia. "I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in...
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...The Effects of Social Media Marilyn Monroe COM/156 1/9/2015 Daniel Lindley Over the years many have taken advantage of social media’s wonderful ability to connect them to friends and family, grow their businesses and entertain them. However, many people have been exposed to violence and heinous acts without warning. There have even been reports of child molestation streaming live on a popular social site. Social media has definitely had an effect on many. “This raises a question for all” has social media been a blessing or a curse? Social media is used by many people all around the world day in and day out. Its fascinating ability to put the world at ones finger tips can be addictive for some, but for others it can be a disaster. Social media can be accessed by adults and children alike. People of all ages, races and walks of life frequent popular site like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Instagram. Some political and religious leaders are also a part of the phenomenon. Although social media is not meant to cause pain in anyone’s life, it has had some negative effects on the public. Social media has had a negative effect on many children and teens. Social media exposes children and teen to violence and sexual...
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...Social Media: Freedom of Expression or Freedom to Bully? Social media has come a long way during the last few decade, and the improvement of technology has made everything online easier to manage. Social media is meant as a valuable outlet for freedom of expression, but is widely abused in order to bully and threaten others without any fear. The purpose of this research paper is to show how online bullying goes a long way, and hurts others in the long run. Bullies get online and let out their hatred/frustration on victims, without the confrontation, and without the immediate consequences. There are many ways that social media is more widely used as a weapon and some of the reasons are, bullying online can lead to depression/anxiety, even to suicide, and the bullies are able to hide behind a keyboard and threaten others with no consequences. We expect the internet to be safe and a reliable source to express ourselves, yet others use it as a scapegoat to bully others and create an environment where others don’t feel safe. From personal experiences, facts, statistics, and the words of experts, social media has been deemed an unfit outlet for teens because they use it to freely express their hatred towards others, with little to no consequence. There are many facts that prove how social media is used for seemingly inappropriate behavior towards others, and making the internet as a whole a place to ruin other people’s lives. Doing research on this topic was really...
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...Is “Social Media” a Beginning of an Unsocial Community? ─Abstract ─ In the last 10 years, with the development of the technology, “Social Media” concept entered literatures and spreaded quickly and became a powerful material on both individual and institutional perspective. Also it’s growing its power every day. Nowadays, lots of companies could not resist of this power and settled it in their business dynamics to take advantage of social media. Lots of the companies using social media on their marketing strategies and number of firms that use social media on customer feedbacks growing day by day. With these methods, companies are trying to turn over social media threat to an opportunity. The other fact that must be discussed about social media is, collecting personal and demographic data from registered users and there is no method to restrict using of these data for intelligence information and commercial purposes without approval of the users. The other interesting fact is, the number of users that registered only top 10 favorite social networks is more than the population of the world that uses internet. Although there are lower age limits on most of the social networks, the statistics show these rules are breaking. With social networks, information can be shared by thousands of people within minutes. On the other hand, with the use of social media (especially by Y and...
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...Technology changes the experience of childhood not only socially but also in both economical and cultural aspects. Technology has the greatest influence on the world today, and we are constantly surrounded by it and life will almost be impossible without it (Davies, 2010). In the below summary, I have outlined briefly how the media has changed the lives of the young generation: The article basically outlines the social, economic and cultural changes that have come about due to digitization. The media is so much engrossed in our lives that it would be impossible for our young generation to survive in its absence. The internet, video and television dictate the morals, cultures and characters the young pick up as they grow up. There are some economic aspects of change brought about by the digital age. In today’s era, Children seem to be staying younger longer. This creates financial dependence which is worsened by the stagnating youth labor market and consequently leading to delayed entrance into adulthood. In addition, there has been tremendous rise in the spending power. The main concern here is not only on the money young people spend but their influence on family decision concerning expenditure and how they might be incorporated into consumer life. The spending power has significantly increased since the 1960s among teens while children between 4 and 12 years influencing the spending in their households (Muller, 2010). The spending habits among the young are...
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...How Social Media Affect Face-To-Face Interaction? Social media is defined as Internet-based applications that rely on the technological foundations of Web 2.0 and allow the generation and exchange of content generated by users. Social media is diverse in nature and includes blogs, such as Twitter, video sharing sites, such as YouTube, photograph sharing space, such as Instagram and social networking venue, such as Facebook. In contrast, face-to-face communication is described as a situation when people see each other physically and talk to each other. The debate that arises from the advent of social media is whether the social media complement or substitute traditional face-to-face communication. In my opinion, social media is like drugs, which people consume, become addicted to and forget how to talk face-to-face without feeling intimidated. The development of social media can be traced back to the advent of Internet. In fact, the popularity of social media is nothing more obvious than the Internet going back to its roots. The internet was initially developed as a platform for people to exchange ideas. However, it was taken over by large corporations. Corporate web pages marginalized individuals’ activities online. For instance, Amazon and eBay arrived in 1995 and offered a new kind of value proposition to consumers; nevertheless, many corporations slowed down on their online activities after the dot-com burst in 2001. Then, the “social media revolution” made the internet...
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...September 8, 2012, Doomsday as also known as “A Day Without Media”. A Day Without Media was first conducted as an experiment by an undergraduate class at University of Maryland but was duplicated by myself for the doomsday experience. By way of this challenge I learned different variables such as my media consumption habits, my most used sources, what were the psychological effects, and the difficulty of finding activities to consume the time I use for social media. This experience was nothing nice, especially for someone whose phone is their world. Media is a way of life. I learned from my personal experience that I eat, sleep and breathe media. This challenge was extremely hard to complete being that all my sources and connections to the outside world were taken from me. Most of my media use comes from my phone. I am always involved in social media such as Instagram, Twitter and sometimes even Facebook. Then while in engaged in these features I am in tune with my music application. I love music. It’s my personal getaway, a home away from home. If my phone is not in use then it’s my computer. It’s always something to do on the computer, whether I’m surfing the web, online shopping, movie streaming, or even catching up on my latest shows. My computer is my backup generator. Without media I am lifeless, and this assignment almost brought me to my death. Being that all active media was not an option during a whole twenty-four hour period I had to find different activities...
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...The Miller High Life One Second Ad is one of many PR case studies profiled in the textbook, Public Relations Cases. In collaboration with Dig Communications, Miller High Life developed a newsworthy, attention-getting, beer-selling campaign where a series of one-second ads were televised during the Super Bowl game in 2009. This was not only a great commercial, but it was a smart commercial; one that continues to be studied today. The Case of Miller High Life One Second Ad is a Public Relations case that falls under the category of social media cases. According to Hayes, Hendrix and Kumar, social media involves three distinct components. First, there is a new level of two-way engagement with key target audiences. Today, people expect a voice and expect to be heard using social media venues as their speaker’s dais. Second, the communication process is powered by ever changing and evolving digital technologies. Twitter, Facebook, and You Tube have a very short life compared to legacy communication systems like newspapers, but they will shortly be supplemented, or even supplanted, by a host of new capabilities. Smart phones will eventually give way to a new generation of mobile devices that enhance communication and connectivity. Third, the technologies offer an ease and simplicity of publishing and producing information that allows digital savvy citizens to easily contribute to the public discourse. For example, viral emails circulated among friends become published commentary...
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