Alexander Llivisaca New Media Blog

Virtual worlds have a lot of potential for practical uses. For one, they can simulate a environment someone could explore. One example is shown in the virtual class tour in the article "The virtual world moves into the classroom", by Joe Earle. Teachers use virtual reality to show/ give students a tour of either history or a tour through someone else's life. Teachers used VR to allow students to follow a migrant family journey or visit a historical battlefield to foster kids learning and understanding. these experience can change their understanding and view of the world.  While some claim this learning is more distracting, others are hopeful the potential VR has on learning. this type of immersion has also been used to improve gaming experience as VR creates a new level of immersion for players to experience and explore as they can see their surroundings in real time. This type of immersion is also practical for training professionals for stressful situation in a safe en...

My Impression on 4 Social Networking sites: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube Facebook Facebook is currently the largest Social networking site in the world. You can make posts that you can share with your friends and family. You can post texts, pictures and even video, and you can like comment or share other people posts. There is a lot on the screen when you login. Groups, ads, and posts can make it a little hard on the eyes. However there mobile app is a lot nicer, which is why I use that more. With Facebook algorithm, I see the post the interest me the most so their isn't a lot of unwanted post I want to see besides the ads. Twitter I only recently started using twitter, so its taking me some time to get used to it. Its definitely harder for me to follow a conversation since replies to a tweet can be in the same feed. While searching via a hashtag is possible, I still Facebook way of doing it is smoother. the 280 character limit really does make you think what to writ...

Its a very weird experience blogging with Twitter, considering I never used it before. However, it seems fun and easy to use. While on blackboard you can write till your heat is content, you have limited space on twitter. This means I have to carefully think what I want to say on twitter. I have to get my main point across in the fewest words possible, and this made me think what I really wanted to say and what I felt was important to mention. While you can quickly navigate twitter to see other people responses, blackboard (at least to me) seems to be a lot less forgiving when trying to see responses. To me its more like an in-class discussion. In class you have to make your point quickly, as you don't want to take up too much time from anyone else. While you may have more time to make a tweet than think about what your going to say in a discussion, you still have to think about what point you are trying to make with as little space/time you have to express it. You can also communi...

The emergence of Social Media has changed how we as individuals interact with each other. People can reach out and connect to others like never before. We are able to communicate over long distances with people we know or never met before. In a sense, we are always connected to one another and are constantly able to keep one another updated on our life. This same principle can be applied to companies on social media as well. Companies can use social media to better connect with their audience and listen to their voices and opinions. should a customer have a complaint, the company can reach out to them via social media to remedy the problem. Another example is that Companies can use social media to quickly make a response to a growing controversy or topic they notice. A prime example is Youtube rapid response on twitter covering issues that arise on their platform regarding ads showing up on inappropriate videos or inappropriate content on their youtube for kids. With Rapid response of ...

There are many similarities between blogs and wikis. For example, Both are new forms of media that the users can edit and publish their own work. Both are free to use and for the most part have small learning curves when it comes to using them. They are both used to keep record of information online for anyone to see and to comment on. However, there are a lot of distinct differences between the two as well. The main difference is collaboration. Blogs are generally run by an individual looking to share their opinion in their own personal space about anything they want, and occasionally have other collaborators as well. Wikis form of collaboration deals with many people coming together and using their minds to create an objective database of knowledge in which anyone can edit information. Wikis goal is to share factual knowledge with anyone, while blogs goal is to share their opinions on any topic they want. With more collaborators, wikis evolve and grow much faster than bloggers, and...

My research paper would be an analysis of Social networking: Better or worse than the real thing? It is clear in today's society that we people interacting more online than in person. While some may be comfortable interacting with others digitally, I would explore how this experience is making us as a society less social than ever before. Social media lets us hide behind a mask of anonymity. We have a disconnect with our identity, making us have one for our real life interactions and one for our online ones. While we hide online we lose touch of reality, making it harder for us to socialize and interact with others effectively causing us to seek more isolation into something we are comfortable with. This is what I seek to explore in my research, whether such a disconnect can cause us to be less social. I also to seek to understand the pros and cons of choosing to interact on a digital platform versus in real life, as understanding how people decide to interact with each other can b...