Creativity and New Media

Bitstrips is an app that allows users to create a cartoon version of themselves and create comics that starts them or their friends. You can change your hairstyle,  Bitstrips is linked with Facebook, which some people update their moods or statuses using this app. It's a new way to express yourself and interact with friends because instead of posting the same things, you can edit your own comic and post something that's related to your lif...

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Creativity

Media is constantly improving and it consumes everyone's lives. We use it daily to check updates on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. Media fosters creativity since it allow one to share ideas to a large audience. An example of how media fosters creativity is how some companies offer contests for their viewers to participate in. Big companies offer viewers to market a company's product to help the company generate a new idea. Doritos had a YouTube contest that had its viewers think of an idea and make a video to sell their brand. The best one would...

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Modeling Reality With Virtual Worlds

There are many ways virtual worlds can be used for. They can be used for business purposes to social purposes. Virtual worlds allow people create 3D avatars and connect and communicate online rather in person. Such as how IBM helped a company log into the world called Second Life and create virtual meetings. The meeting on the screen looked like what the room would look like in real life and the 3D avatars would look like the executives. Virtual worlds allow people to actually "be there" but not actually there. People can also create and live however...

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Social Networking Sites

Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and Tumblr, are websites that comes to our mind when thinking about networking sites. Facebook is probably one of the most popular social networking sites out there. It is very easy to use, and since how almost everyone has one, it allows one to easily communicate and be updated with their friends lives. Finding friends is easy due to the fact that they have a mutual friends and friends suggestion sidebar. You can post on walls and post up statuses, photos, and videos. The newsfeed also acts a current event update because...

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Blog About Twitter

Both Twitter and Blackboard are ways to communicate and have a discussion. Both Twitter and Blackboard allows faculty to communicate and update students. However, Twitter is more current and easier to access while Blackboard is more set and less flexible. If using Twitter, discussions are limited to 140 characters. Therefore sometimes this might not be enough to get a point across. Blackboard allows students to attach files or type as long of a discussion they want. Unlike Twitter, Blackboard has threads which creates an organized way to show all...

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Social Networking

Social networking is a predominate in our lifestyle nowadays. There are many ways people and corporates use social networking. People use social networking to connect with friends and family. It's an easy way to keep up with the social circle. It's an easier way to communicate with the world around us instead of using long distance calling. It is used to maintain a connection between people. Individuals use blogs or vlogs to voice opinions or convey a message. Celebrities use Twitter or Instagram to connect with fans. Besides keeping in contact,...

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Blogs VS. Wikis

Blogs and Wikis are both forms of communication that derived from the Internet. They are created with the intention to share information to a wide audience. Blogs are websites used for one's own opinion, thoughts or information, usually on a daily basis. Anyone from individuals to companies can write a blog and the blog can contain anything. The author reflects their personality through the blog by the content, the tone of the posts, and the layout. The main difference between blogs and Wikis is that blogs are more personal. Unlike...

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