Online search giant Google recently made its foray into the formal social media sphere with its Google Buzz service. Tied into the popular Gmail web-based email client, Buzz was rolled out to Google’s approximately 146 million most active users, the company saying that a social network has always been beneath the surface of its email technology (WSJ.com). But even with the current social-media craze, many users were unhappy with what seemed to be an intrusion on their everyday social routines. We’ll look at some of these users’ comments and I’ll espouse what I see to be some of the possibilities that we might not be hearing over the Buzz. ¶ Read More…
These are taken away from Carol Wilder’s Understanding Media Studies course at The New School.
- What do I want to know?
- Why does it matter? To whom?
- What do we already know about the subject?
- What is a workable research question?
- How can I find the answer?
- How can I analyze the results?
- What conclusions can I draw?
- What can I contribute to future studies?
- How can I communicate the result to others?
This post is set up to be a reminder to me as I continue my masters degree. I need to be thinking about and answering these questions as I determine the research I want to do in this field.
I registered for classes last night. And it feeeeeeels good.
I’m taking two required seminar courses and a design course that I am excited about. Color theory, typography, layout… it’s going to be great.
Can’t wait to start! Apparently orientation videos will be online on Monday and the processes to add me to Blackboard will also run. And allegedly I have no textbooks? That can’t be right.
I’ll have to check that out again later…
It’s no secret that I’m addicted to social media, or that my favourite outlet is Twitter.
Why? So many people I (or my friends) come into contact with don’t get it. They say Twitter is stupid. Given, most of them haven’t checked out the service. But while they’re making fun of Twitter, they’re off spending hours on end on Facebook or MySpace. You know, the old social media. (Strange we have old New Media already, yes?)
But Twitter is the anti-Facebook. On Facebook you’re bombarded with photos, fan suggestions, ‘Become a Zombie’ requests, snowballs, and God knows what else that is hiding in the depths of their app schemas. Last week it was suggested I become a fan of curly fries. Really? Curly fries?
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