Fatemeh Jamshidian Tehrani - Social Media & Impact of Social Media

Name:Fatemeh Jamshidian Tehrani

ID:1102703422

Email:fatemeh.jt@gmail.com

Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques. The term refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue.

Social media are distinct from industrial or traditional media such as radio, television, newspaper and internet. They are some forms of media through which we get information. Just like other fields, a vast development is seen in media fields also. They have to cover important happenings, in all the fields, around the world. The media covers news of public interest such as political happenings, sports, city news, national news, international news, business, education, entertainment, literature and medical news. They are relatively inexpensive and accessible to enable anyone (even private individuals) to publish or access information, compared to industrial media, which generally require significant resources to publish information.

Positive Effects Of The Media

Social Media Changing How We Receive News and Other Information

Along the decades, there have been many changes as to how we receive our information and how it effects us. News broadcasted through different media helps us know about the day-to-day events in the world. The news men, women and children get through media help them in their daily life a lot.

Social Media Changing Social Interactions

Social networking websites provide tools by which people can communicate, share information, and create new relationships. Communicating through the Internet and social networking websites is quite different than communicating in person.

Global Advertising

There are a lot of methods that advertisers use to expose their products. Not only through the newest source, the internet, but the old school way; billboards, buses magazines, and newspapers. Point being, social media networks will find that users are likely to be comfortable with the advertisements on a site as long as they do not detract from, or outshine, the major content of the site.

Mohammad Mehrdadfar - Social Media; A MUST or a Personal Preference

Name: Mohammad Mehrdadfar

ID: 1081108014

Email: mmdf20@hotmail.com

We MUST submit this article in our group weblog; if not, we will lose 10% of the total mark! That is just a small sample of how social media effect our life; weather we agree or not!

Wikipedia defines Social Media as below:

“Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques. The term refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue.”

Good or bad, the cancer cells of web-communication have spread rapidly in our lives. New demands in our modern world formed an interconnected society, including people of all nations; regardless of their beliefs, cultures and geographical distance. Like all other mass media, people cannot live without social media soon.

In “What is Social Media” e-book (http://www.icrossing.co.uk/fileadmin/uploads/eBooks/What_is_Social_Media_iCrossing_ebook.pdf), social media is divided into these groups:

·         Social networks (e.g. Facebook, Google plus)

·         Blogs (e.g. Blogger, Wordpress)

·         Wikis (e.g. Wikipedia)

·         Podcasts (e.g. Apple iTunes)

·         Forums (e.g. forum.lowyat.net)

·         Content communities (Flickr, Youtube)

·         Micro blogging (Twitter)

Among all different types of social media, social networks play more important role in our routine life, especially in the young generation. Facebook with over 700 million users so far, is the leader of web-based communication networks. The common use of this portal is to be in touch with friends and relatives, but except usual these communications, portals like Facebook, may cause social movement enforcements in the real world. We all know the role of Facebook in the recent worldwide events, such as Egypt revolution or Japan earthquake. In the other hand, mass communication sites like this can easily waste a lot of useful time of people around the world, just for sharing things which are not as important as the time that taking for them!

Other types of Social Media are also important for us. We can have an updated personal diary or a group journal in a weblog form or find any kind of information in Wikipedia (the biggest manmade encyclopedia ever). Majority of big companies have their own forum for their customers to share the ideas and get supported from shared information. The companies can benefit from valuable consumer opinions as well. Informative websites like YouTube also very crucial for us. A wide range of information can easily share and be seen in the infinite space of web and the latest news can broadcast; not in the way that governments do!

Nowadays, social media in any form is like a passport to travel to the new virtual world. You may not like using it, but you definitely lose a wide range of privilege provided specially for you. In my opinion, social media is just like a vehicle. It is not good and not bad. It is what it is. It’s more depends on you how to drive. Remember, Electricity power can lighten your home at nights and warm you up in a cold weather or, it can kill you if you use it in a wrong way!!

MINOO MAFI - Social Media

 Name: MINOO MAFI

 ID: 1081107689

The effects of media on society can sense on their daily lives due to of all the privileges it can give such as TV or newspaper. There is much kind of media which provide us to have a platform to voice or watch our opinion on all sorts of social and political indeed. It has come out simple ways of communication and in fact easily accessible means to reach out people on the other side of earth.

So there is some positive effect and of course negative effects and would like to look at either of them.

Positive effects:

One of immense important of it is they enhance the not only general knowledge but also particular knowledge by providing us with information from worldwide. They are including news, telefilm, and documentaries and so on. Obviously it will be increasing social awareness in children.

Newspaper and journals are updating last news and information and can help society to be developed their vocabulary. On the other hand they bring us a wide Varity of news about incidents or events that can be available for us just in minutes after happened. Expert claims that media is responsible for influencing a big part of our daily life. They have cooperated to contact of the different cultures and social values.

Negative effects:

Of course some news can be raised our blood pressmen or make us nervous or impatient. The advertisement also show in TV or newspaper maybe negative impact to socity.our children has been learned violence by watching movies and perhaps follows some heroes to be like them that has made many sad event around the world. They spent much more time with media without benefit and make them lazy indeed. The middle aged person are stuck up with TV serials and wasting either money or time.

To sum up, media has brought the public worldwide closer. We have to take the positive aspect and use it for good aims. The media can help us to pull out its negative effects of the media.

Aldossary Naief - The importance of social media

Aldossary Naief Nassar M
1092700954
flaminski@gmail.com

Why social media is important....?

Social media is about connecting with people. it's about having

conversations online. it's dialogue. Not monologue, it's facebook,

twitter, myspace, blogs and more.

Social media has changed everything. From the way people are

recruited and hired to consumer expectations and customer support.

social media is important to us,to the world,it makes it fast,

easier, and FREE for everyone to create and share content.

Social Media is all the buzz these days, in general, social media

sites allow everyday people like me and anyone else to give a real

time feedback, comment impose, they let everyone share content,

and let our opinion really count. a decade ago, the term "google it"

was merely a thought, now there's over two hundred million searches

everyday, if people want to find any information, they just hit a

few buttons. Most people could do that at home, at work, and even

on the phone, in other words, consumers are as informed as they

wanted to be.

These are the common reasons why social network is important

1- Networking and relationship

2- Resources and information

3- Marketing and business

4- Lasts forever

In the end, Social media is important to us, we all see it as the

big thing in our life, many new users join the social world everyday.

imagine life without the social media, life would be slow, life would

be empty and boring,if the social media doesn't exist, my life would turn

into boredom, miserable life, and i'll be the guy with an empty brain.

Mostafa Mahoudi - what is social media

Name: Mostafa mahmoudi

Email: amooshelby@gmail.com

Student ID: 1081107434

watch this video first from youtube

I was searching through the internet today and came across an interesting post from Brian Clark, titled Since When Are Blogs Not Social Media?. Here is a quote from it:

I’ve noticed a strange trend lately.

For some reason, people seem to be equating social media with social networking.

At the same time, they seem to be treating blogging as something other than social media.

I found his post interesting because that trend is something I have been noticing myself. It looks like for many people social media is the collection of social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.

Well, it is much more than that.

Social media are the various forms of user generated content and the collection of websites and applications that enables people to interact and share information online.

Complicated? Well here is a list of things that are part of the social media:

• online forums (e.g., DigitalPoint)
• blogs (e.g., WordPress)
• social networking sites (e.g., Facebook)
• social bookmarking sites (e.g., Digg)
• video sharing sites (e.g., YouTube)
• photo sharing sites (e.g. Flickr)
• streaming sites (e.g., Ustream)
• user reviews (e.g., Amazon)
• crowdsourcing (e.g., Wikipedia)
• content aggregators (e.g., FriendFeed)

As you can see, social media is much wider than what some people think. It is also much older. We could say that the first Usenet (a form of distributed discussion system) developed in 1980 was already social media.


MOstafa mahmoudi
1081107434

Mohsen Ghafari - Social Media or Social Virus!

Arguement - Disagreement side!

 

Name: Mohsen Ghafari
student ID: 1091108885
Email: mohsen.ghafari.edu@gmail.com


01- Social media and the history of its usability

02- Government and new power of media

03- Third world and nothing more!

04- Media attack and virus spreader

Social media and the history of its usability

The media has always been under the knife of governmental power for their reason. We can’t say that we have had a very pure media without any purpose. Before the internet, the traditional media like newspaper, television and radio, were always under the control. It depended on power of government or big companies and so on. However, social media has its own benefits and came to be handy for making the progress of continuous lies. For a long time, we have both lies and deception together at home, work office and society. Anything around us is covered by the news which we like to hear about. And this is the purpose of power and control.

Government and new power of media

The most powerful tool for governments is controlling media. It doesn’t matter how smart are you, at last, you’ll get exposed by these kind of media like television, radio and papers. The new kind of media, internet, is a little modern and we just think that we have choice to use any information on the internet. This new tools, is the third arm for powerful men to have more control on people and tell more lies to them for living more. Nowadays, all of us like to listen, see and hear more lies without any exception. Internet opened a new window-shop for any kind of products like women, child abuse, murder, money eaters, and credit cards. If you have money so you have everything, if you don’t you must go somewhere and die! This is the power of internet, nothing more, and nothing less.

Third world and nothing more!

We have social media, so we are happy. We are connected to first world by social communication media type like Facebook, yahoo, Google, twitter. They’ve made these social networks for us to communicate. But what is all of this about? Are we really happy? Spending 80% of our time just using these kinds of media for just communication? Is this really meaning of having happy life and communication? The civilization means you must have Facebook, if you don’t, they look at you and laugh. Yes, this is the control and power. We won’t have any identity without using new social media and communication.

Media attack and virus spreader

Social media is like a soft attack. Don’t be mistaken! It’s neither cold war nor warm war. It’s soft attack. Like deadly poisons. You are addicted to social Medias like Facebook. Without Facebook, you have nothing, and you like to be surrounded by beautiful media like YouTube, music videos, MTV and you love to daydream all the time. So is it real life, is it reality?

Conclusion

Social media is a very big topic for all of us which we can by first asking question, get more answer from. I try not to giving a solution, but asking questions to myself, and try to communicate to my friends in another way and identify ourselves as a student who is learning for the future and going to take this control and power which is media.

Seyed Hadi Seyed Sadjadi - Social Media

Name: seyed hadi seyed sajadi
student ID: 1102702761 
Email: shssadjadi@gmail.com


The subject,Social Media is a serious subject which we can discover it from multiple side.

First: What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media?
Second: How the social media can be useful ?
Third: what are the concept of social media?
Fourth: why is the social media important to us?
Fifth: when it can be useful?
who will get the benefit and where?

in general The social media can be useful, and even useless. some of the people use the social media/network to connect with other people which is a good side of the coin but in contrast it will be hazardous for them when they spend most of their time in front of the computer and do nothing. there will be some illness for them such as eyes problem, laziness, overweight and ... .
Some of the people or better to say student will use the social media/network to do their assignment and research about that which is perfect but it won`t be a good idea to plagiarism because most of the student will copy the contain of a research,paste in their assignment as they work, that will be be an ashamed.

Another ways of using social media/network is Games and Video Games which in these ages, most of the companies and game developer started to to produce some crucial and aggressive games and some sexual and rudeness games which they just look at their packet to collect money.

Another type of social media is TV and generally visual art such as Theater,Film and ... which are trying to perform and spread their idea. the content of these type of medias will be in conclusion by the auditions.

Some of the advantages mentioned above but the most important of using social media is to say something. for example an infant will show his/her feeling by drawing in a piece of paper. a director show his/her idea by creating a movie and a writer with writing a novel and .... why the people are using social media is about their necessity of telling something or expressing their opinion and how are they using the social media is mentioned which a person will be a director, painter, game developer, theater producer or a writer.

The social media will be useful when the people spend their time to catch something even that kind of social media express in bad manner. we can find the weakness and analyze the problem of that social media to try to make it better with criticize in logical way. of course extravagant in using the social media or something else will be dangerous.

The concept of the social media won`t be square all the time because every person think differently and the result will be different. everyone analyze the problem by their own mind and detail something by their own knowledge, but the whole concept is a useful way of describing a feeling or expressing a problem with social media language. social media would be a language when is using in public because it is trying to connect two thing to each other.

The social media could be important to us because the human is sociable,naturally. they need to spend their leisure/time with other people and have fun and grasp new thing around the world. when a person is alone and is not surrounded by the other will start to share his/her data with someone else which is the first step of socialization and the time of using social media and it may to happen in every point of the world, from east to west and north to south even in extreme  point of the world. actually it is possible to connect the other planet in this giant galaxy which we are living in a smallest part of that to each other just by using and promoting the technology and then social media.

To get and understand the social media, we need to improve the technology first and using the social media next.

Seyed Hadi Seyed Sadjadi - Social Media Clip

Name: seyed hadi seyed sajadi
student ID: 1102702761 
Email: shssadjadi@gmail.com