Week 12

Firstly in this tut we were asked to construct a news story from twitter posts about Bangkok. 

It’s bloody hard!

Then we asked the question; what is lost when you try to construct a story out of twatter, sorry, twitter posts.

I answered any form of coherency ( I don’t understand twitter posts much) and a proper story.

However what is gained is instant broadcasts that can literal by by the minute and also perspectives from different people.

It is a good example of the internet allowing practically anyone with access to it the ability to participate with news telling.

This week the readings were about facebook so of course everyone read it.

•          Facebook is addictive.
•          It makes stalking easy. Privacy is a concern. It easily enables sharing of personal information.
•          It is used heavily as a promotional tool, like advertising stuff.
•          And as a way to promote yourself.
•          Although it can be seen as a distraction from ACTUAL social interaction it can be seen as a promotion to actual social interaction. Like those EVENT things.
•          It originated in education.

Facebook really asks the question, how has privacy shifted over the last decade or so?

I could answer that due to the ability to share information with the world easily it has made our lives a lot less private and unfortunately many people are naive about it.

We also spoke briefly about the benefits of different communications.

I think the conversation was quickly over deciding that facebook is awesome.

2 more weeks!