Personal reflection on the media culture class

As for the class this week, in my opinion, the PowerPoint that been used in class is boring to me. Other than words, I couldn’t find much picture in the PowerPoint. As feedback, lecturer should cut down some words and includes more necessary pictures so that PowerPoint will be more interesting. Thus, sleeping in class will be effectively avoided. Other than that, lecturer should be more interactive with students. He might be good in explaining but not in interactivity. 

Social Media (2) How this new phenomenon is affecting the lives around me?

On the other hand, there will be no PRIVACY once you start using those social media especially via internet. Social media such as blog, facebook, you tube and so on. Anyone of us can post anything such as video clip, diary post and so on. Once you’ve chosen to use those social media through internet, there will be no consideration about protecting self-privacy as people can see anything posted by anyone. Let me take blog as an example. In the older days, writing diary is a private thing which no one can see one’s diary without one’s permission. But, as we can see, nowadays, online diary aka blog is no longer a private thing. Just with an easy click, you can view anyone’s blog without the owner’s permission and hence writing a diary is no longer personal. Besides, people might know your friends through social network such as facebook. This could bring good and bad effects.

Good: we could find those “long-time-no-see” friends through the network

Bad: you could get some negative friends and get negative messages.

Social Media (1) How this new phenomenon is affecting my life?

After viewing the video of "social media in plain English", I would like to share some of my opinion. Using ice-cream to represent social media in that video is quite interesting. Ice-cream in older days has only few flavors, but now we found lots of flavor in town. This is creativity. People become greedy when there are more choices. How this new phenomenon is affecting my life? Nowadays there are more and more different kinds of social media. Each of them provides a place for posting feedback, comments, and even rates it. For instance, at first I didn't know what or which to choose. Hence, I’ll refer to those comments or feedback to help in making choices. This helps a lot which I don't need much time to figure out which is better. In return, I’ll post my own comment. It makes thing easier and even faster in process. Thus, things would be improved as well according to those comments and feedbacks.