Readings for 2/24

February 24th

The Practice of Everyday Media Life

1. I think that three different sites or types of sites can be identified to describe the change in which people communicate.

- Blogs, users now producing the writings on these sites and anyone an be an author and control the content that is published to the world.

-YouTube, sited where people can upload video have revolutionized communication, people now visit Youtube for recreation and to communicate with others far away

-Facebook/MySpace/Social Networking Sites, people control what is uploaded to the sites and the communication that exists because of these sites now dominates the communication of the 15-30 year old age group.


2. New types of social media are changing the way people communicate because facts, opinion and conversation can now no longer be seperated as clearly. The way in which are communicating is also become blurred because now it is not what exactly we saying or doing but just simply the fact that we are doing it. This can be seen in posting blogs and using other sources or when someone gives a gift on facebook. The purpose behind the gift becomes lost in the fact that we gave the gift. The way in which we communicate is also changed because we are now comminting about the same thing rather than speaking to one another. We now communicate by all commenting on the same Facebook picture rather than interacting.