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Nosedive is one of my favorite “Black Mirror” plots. I still remember the shock when I first saw this episode a few years ago. Obviously, the concept of social capital as an extremely precious commodity resonated strongly with me. The world depicted in “Black Mirror” is far from the current climate that social media andContinue reading “Dystopia Blog”

After rewatching the Black Mirror episode and completing the reading for the correlating article detailing the psychological impacts of the relationship between social media and our emotions, I am disturbed yet intrigued by the information read and watched. In this virtual reality In a world of fusion, technology has become a new way of lifeContinue reading “Utopia Blog Post”

As of today, I have tried to learn how to cook on the Internet and experience it myself for nearly two weeks. In these two weeks, I have made a lot of progress, and I have also experienced something different from what I just started learning. I find that persistent practice brings a lot ofContinue reading “New Media Learning Lab- Part 2”

The skill I decided to learn was cooking. In fact, we all know that cooking is a matter of experience and time control. And these happen to be achieved through social media. I am a person who likes to spend time on YouTube, so I followed some teachers on social media and started to learnContinue reading “New Media Learning Lab Pt. 1”

Social media can portray a person’s image, especially in this era when electronic devices are very popular. We hope to show different ourselves on different social media. I have chosen three social media photos of linkedin, instagram and wechat to show my personal characteristics. The first one is my photo on linkedin. As we allContinue reading “Profile Pic Lab – Part 2”

Tina always have a welcoming smile and looks very approachable. Her profile picture features her wearing large, round glasses, which is a symbol Harry Potter is known for. Tina also attempts to communicates a lot of a particular part of her  personality, as to encourage others to reveal more about themselves.  Valente is a veryContinue reading “Profile Pic Lab Part 1”

This week’s lab mainly focus on popping our filter bubbles as discussed in last week’s lab. This week, I will choose some ways to make the action. The three popping actions that I would like to choose is using incognito pages, erasing the web history and Turn off my cookies. At the same time, inContinue reading “Filter Bubble Lab Part Two”

The media is already a part of people’s lives at this stage. With the gradual acceleration of the pace of life, our demand for the Internet is also increasing. This makes us have to learn more about the credibility of content on the Internet. So we have to find those credible sources of information. InContinue reading “Filter Bubble Lab Part One”

Last week, we talked about the negative effects of new media technology. Clearly, technology has brought us distance from time to time. However, this week, I would like to highlight some ideas about the positive effect of new media. Kraut’s 2002 reading involves two new studies. Study 1 is a follow-up study of Internet use.Continue reading “POSITIVE IMPACTS OF NEW MEDIA”

In this week’s reading, Kraut talked about the negative effects of different media technologies. We have found that with the development of technology, it has brought many negative effects to society. In his reading, Kraut also pointed out that the advent of television has had an impact on social interaction and sports activities, and heContinue reading “Negative Impacts of New Media”