For Tuesday we will be discussing New Media, Activist media, Alternative media, and combinations of the three. While you are reading Leah Lievrouw’s Alternative and Activist New Media, pay attention to how she describes new media, alt media and activist…
The end of summer session is almost here. Are you excited…or just focused on your final? Here are the videos that Ned showed us on Thursday: Enemy of the State 1998 scroogled 1 Scroogled 2 Edward Snowden at Ted Enjoy…
In the high-developed media era, we subtly experience surveillance through media. I watch many videos on YouTube site. YouTube provides some recommended videos which are appeared on YouTube site, and I realized that the videos are related to a video…
Is free speech required a permissible range? There are three major social media; Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. These media are in hot water because they have to handle inappropriate contents by lots of users. Lately, the video and pictures which…
While most people devote their procrastination hours on Reddit, undergraduates at Massachusetts Institute of Technology will received course credit for surfing this social media website. They are being offered a course called “Credit for Reddit,” taught by MIT researcher Chris…
When I saw these two breaking news, the shutdown of Beijing’s Independent Film Festival by Chinese authorities and China is sending military vehicles to Hong Kong ahead of expected protests, I could not help but wanted to write something about…
Even though Facebook users are not paying monthly fee to Facebook for using it, Facebook are making profit out of personal data of the users that they are tracking and collecting. The article stated that Facebook made about $7 per…
YouTube is a video sharing website that allows anyone to upload any kinds of videos to share with a wide range of audience all around the world. Anyone that signs up for an YouTube account can easily have access to…