Posts Tagged ‘ facebook ’
Purchasing goods. In the past, this meant buying something that was tangible or substantial. However, in recent years, businesses have found that with the increasing market in new media, charging real money for pixels on a computer screen was raking in dollars. Estimates have global virtual goods generating approximately US$3.1 billion annually with the figure [ READ MORE ]
(Husain, 2011) The rise of social networks. There is no doubt that almost everyone (except for a handful in developing countries) is, or has been part of social network. With every ‘big thing’, criticisms are not unusual. Common criticisms: 1. Manipulative space where users are subject to advertising and money-wasting 2. Fosters a herd-like mentality [ READ MORE ]
I was, (still am) never the kind that would jump onto the bandwagon when something new pops up. Take for example Twitter,and Facebook. I joined Twitter in april 2009 and only started to utilize that platform a month ago. The same for Facebook. Most of my friends started using it in year 1. Facebook here, [ READ MORE ]
Continuous Partial Attention (CPA) That was a sub-topic my group lead for discussion during nct tutorial yesterday. The main topic was Social Machines but its too lengthy for me to explain in a post. It’ll be too boring. Oh well, CPA is skimming the surface of data, picking up details that are relevant and moving [ READ MORE ]
Faith Chantal Bernadette Lee
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