Social Media/Web 2.0 Group discussion

Group Members: Sean Connor and Ben Thiefels

1) Professional production values will always increase. An example of this would be the multi-million dollar movie named Avatar. They used really high quality special effects. For regular movies on television, quality will most likely be lower being that you are watching a free broadcast. As technology advances, it becomes cheaper to manage higher quality productions. Some shows on TV use the "camera effect" which the scene is shot by an actual camera making it seem like there is no camera crew but instead one person shooting the whole scene. User generated content will most likely get better just because it is getting to be more available to the general population.

2) The news article we have found is titled "How to Get Costumers on Facebook and Twitter. The terms we have used to define this website are facebook, twitter, advertisement and communication. Finding this same article on http://delicious.com/, we have found out that there are similar tagging words that we described. The tagging words "facebook" and "twitter" are already used on delicious.com, mad "advertisement" and "communication" are similar to some of the words there. For example, if I were to describe advertisement in relation to the tag word used, I would say it is about marketing and the term marketing is used as a tag word there. Same thing with communication but instead it is tagged social. We think these words are important to describe this article because obviously the article is about facebook and twitter so we will use those key terms right away, also, facebook and twitter use a lot of advertisement. These advertisements are how these free websites make their money. Companies pay facebook and twitter for a website "space" so they can have their marketing place online in a social environment for many people to see and to maybe even persuade people to get or buy their product. We used the term communication because all in all, thats exactly what facebook and twitter are about. They are both social;l networking websites which allow you to "communicate" with friends, family, and others you personally know or even people around the globe.
Website: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100301/how-to-get-customers-on-facebook-and-twitter.html

3) Why is transparency such an important concept in the Social Media world? Is it MORE or LESS important in the offline world? Why?
For a lot of people, it is important to be transparent because it shows their true self. It allows them to be open and trustworthy. It seems like it is important for people who follow user-generated content. It is important for a business to be transparent because no one wants to follow a company and not see the true values of what they are doing. An example of a company not being transparent would be one in the subject of toxic "E-Waste". This company claims that they will recycle and re-use computer parts in the U.S. and do it in the cleanest way possible. They lose credibility because a crew of environmentalists wanted to see what was actually happening with these computers. They found out that these computers were delivered to China for cheap labor to get rid of these products. This company obviously isn't transparent to the public. Here is a link of the article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/60minutes/main4579229.shtml

"Give Us What We Want"

One new thing that I have learned from this part of "the Persuaders" were that most of the important political speakers in the U.S., make their speeches to what the people want to hear. By doing this, they also change the meanings of words so that they sound as a better term but also mean the very same thing (i.e. Global Warming changes to Climate Change). It turns out that when the president mentions to do something about "Climate Change", this term is more effective to his audience than if he were to say he was going to do something about "Global Warming".

Digital Nation Response 2

-I found it interesting that when the middle school was introduced to computers in a school environment, fight percentages went way down, reading scores up by 30%, math scores went up and attendance went up by 90%. These kids also adapted into the term of multi-tasking since the computers have entered this school.
-I agree with the student from Chatham High School. I do not remember the last time I have read a book. I do the same thing with the spark notes for readings if I need it. The internet in my opinion can provide almost anything I need and want to know.
-In my opinion, I disagree that writing experiences get worse ad people get older due to the internet. I play an online game called World of Warcraft, and that game actually helped to improve my writing skills and how I type faster.

Media Film

I think the first 30 minutes of this movie was ridiculous. Of course, technology is advancing at an extremely fast rate, but this first 30 minutes of the movie made it seem like it’s a bad thing. They said that people have been recorded from dyeing to video games because of a lack of water and food in their system. I think that’s completely outrageous and false. I highly doubt people let themselves waste away to nothing just to play a video game. I admit, they are addicting because I am one of the people addicted to the online fantasy and chat world known as “World of Warcraft”, but I do not let myself die because I am addicted, I still find times to study and do homework resulting in me getting a 3.4 gpa last semester. I have also read an article in the newspaper awhile ago that proves that gaming actually improves your vision and thought. Some games may not be good for this but others like strategy or simulation games, and especially complex puzzle games, challenge you to think in different ways and are good for your reasoning and logic skills including helping your eyesight. According to the University of Rochester (http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2764), playing video games a few hours a day over the course of the month have been proven to help improve eyesight by 20%. Before the first 30 minutes of this film plays, they should look at some positives of gaming besides just the negatives.

This film also seemed to make contact with “multi-takers” and basically tell them that there really not well at what they’re doing. If they think they’re doing fine then leave them alone in my opinion. Its they’re life. America has to try and stop making people the “perfect person”. Who cares if they’re attention spand goes down from doing to many things at once, they know as well that if they tried to do 1 thing at a time they’ll be a lot better at it but they rather save time and do it all together. If anything, they’re ahead of the game because they’re doing many things at once and leave the other non-multi-taskers behind.

In conclusion, the first part of this movie left me with a negative effect on how people think of computer gamers. Gaming is and always will be the future. The gaming market is the one thing in the world that is actually succeeding outstandingly well on the consumer market. The game I play at home, “World of Warcraft”, is known to be played by over 4.6 million people worldwide. This isn’t just a game either. It can also be known to be the “e-harmony” for computer gamers. I know 3 people in the game that I play with, including one of my real life friends that have made contact with someone of their opposite sex and talked and even met up with each other. My friend for example met someone from Virginia when he lives in NY and they have a steady relationship now even though they don’t get to see each other in person that much but they talk every day through the game.

Web 2.0

User-generated content is also known as consumer-generated media, refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users.

The Long Tail is a transaction concept describing the position strategy of selling a large number of unique items in relatively small quantities. Usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities.

A Web operating system is different from Internet operating systems. It is independent of the traditional individual computer operating system. This origin of the system reflects an evolution of research in the field of operating systems.

A folksonomy is a system of classification resulting from the practice and method of mutual creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.

Web syndication is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary of the website's recently added content.

Mass collaboration is a form of collective action that occurs when large numbers of people work independently on a single project.

Computer-supported collaboration research focuses on technology that affects groups, organizations, communities and societies, voice mail and text chat.

Social software encompasses a range of software systems that allow users to interact and share data. This computer-mediated communication has become very popular with social sites like MySpace and Facebook, media sites like Flickr and YouTube as well as commercial sites like Amazon.com and eBay.

A web hosting service is a type of Internet service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible through the World Wide Web.

A web application framework is a software that is designed to support the development of active websites. The framework aims to improve the overhead associated with common activities performed in Web development.

Video sharing refers to websites where users can distribute their video clips. Many services have options for private sharing and other publication options. Video sharing services can be classified into several categories such as user generated video sharing websites, video sharing platform / white label providers and web based video editing.

A mashup, bootleg is a song created by blending two or more songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song flawlessly over the music track of another.

A wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages through a web browser using a simplified markup language. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used to create shared websites, to power community websites, for personal note taking, in corporate intranets, and in knowledge management systems.

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of comments, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order