Technologies can be used in multiple ways, both corporate and otherwise. Technology can be used to help connect people in ways that were otherwise impossible through social media. It can also be used in corporations to run tasks more efficiently and cut out certain costs that can be replaced by technology. In "Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum" the blog talks about the net effect of social networking and how it connects people together relating in closer relationships. Also, social networks provide a significant amount of information that can be used to determine certain trends. In "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting" the article talks about professional recruiters post positions on social media for job candidates. The article also goes on to LinkedIn and how many hires were made just on that social media itself.
Technology certainly helps make things significantly easier in terms of job recruiting and finding potential candidates in terms of social media. However, a dark side does exist because of the anonymity of users. Because many people do not have an exact identification or cannot be tracked, they may be more inclined to say things that they would not in real life. These comments or actions can be negative and lead to a darker side of the web. I think technology will certainly evolve in the future and social media will evolve as well. We will depend heavily on social media and new methods to connect with people virtually will exist to make our lives easier.
Citations:
1. Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting by Frank Langfitt, NPR, March 16, 2008. available from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf
2. Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum by Stephen J. Dubner. NYT Feb 15, 2008 http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/is-myspace-good-for-society-a-freakonomics-quorum/
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Monday, June 20, 2016
Blog v Wiki
A blog can be defined as a discussion or informational site published on a website. Usually blogs contain a series of posts or entries that can be about anything the writer chooses to discuss. Blogs are a way to express one's thoughts freely to an audience online. A wiki is a website that operates on collaborative trust. Wikis allow users to create and edit content.
Blogs and wikis share some similar elements but also contrast in several ways. Both allow users to publish content without facing many difficulties; but they differ when it comes to the regulation of the content. Blogs can be written by one person or a group of people and face less content editing than wikis. Wikis can only exist with a community of editors who collaborate to ensure the content is as accurate as possible.
It is very important to be converged in today's networked world. In the New York Times article "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid", the writer explains how bloggers worked together online on a blog to make their neighborhood safer. These blog users reported suspicious activity they saw and with a combined effort, a drug raid was pursued by the police and arrests were made. In the InformationWeek article "How to Use Wikis For Business", the author talks about how creating a database with shared information makes running businesses more efficient and also reduces costs.
References:
"How to Use Wikis for Business," by Ezra Goodnoe, Information Week, August 8, 2005, http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331
Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid By MICHAEL WILSON The New York Times June 26, 2008 available at:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/nyregion/26bayridge.html Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid.pdf
Blogs and wikis share some similar elements but also contrast in several ways. Both allow users to publish content without facing many difficulties; but they differ when it comes to the regulation of the content. Blogs can be written by one person or a group of people and face less content editing than wikis. Wikis can only exist with a community of editors who collaborate to ensure the content is as accurate as possible.
It is very important to be converged in today's networked world. In the New York Times article "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid", the writer explains how bloggers worked together online on a blog to make their neighborhood safer. These blog users reported suspicious activity they saw and with a combined effort, a drug raid was pursued by the police and arrests were made. In the InformationWeek article "How to Use Wikis For Business", the author talks about how creating a database with shared information makes running businesses more efficient and also reduces costs.
References:
"How to Use Wikis for Business," by Ezra Goodnoe, Information Week, August 8, 2005, http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331
Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid By MICHAEL WILSON The New York Times June 26, 2008 available at:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/nyregion/26bayridge.html Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid.pdf
Thursday, June 9, 2016
How Social Media Affects Human Interaction
The paper that I am planning on writing for CIS 3810 revolves around the relationship of social media and human interaction. Social media has recently exploded in this decade and is now deeply ingrained in our everyday lives. Because of this new change, human interaction has changed as well and society has adapted to this new era. I think it will be interesting to examine the changes that humans have embarked on and how different our era is from previous eras. I want to look at different types of social media and how they may each respectively influence change in human behavior.
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