Gurvir's Blog

I would start off by saying that the main difference between a blog and a wiki is how they are used by the consumer. People tend to use and edit blogs to share their thoughts with one another. This can be about feelings, personal issues and even simply free writes. Blogs are more of an art form that people use as a medium to express themselves. On the other hand, a wiki is more of a informational source that people use and edit. Usually, a person is either learning or teaching when they are on a wiki. If you want to learn about a book, a movie or a specific event in time or anything that has some sort of meaning to you, the best place is probably a wiki page. That is the major difference between the two sources. In the news article "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid", the author discusses how a blog can have a tripple effect. Readers and bloggers were all from the same community and used it as a way to generate attention towards an issue they wanted solved. Blogs are a fo...

I chose to do my project on the impact of new media on the professional wrestling industry. New media has changed the way people watch wrestling and also the reason why we watch it. In the '90s, every teenager watched wrestling on their television sets and now its been replaced by the likes of Youtube, Reddit & streaming platforms. At the same time, everyone knows that wrestling is scripted but viewers are still on the edge of their seat as if its real. This is because of the way the product is put out on various new media platforms and it's also allowed new forms of competition to arise. In my research paper, I will discuss how the industry has changed over time with the addition of various new medias and how in the year 2019, new media plays a huge part in every aspect of the business. Some things I will touch upon include how television allowed for companies like WWE to reach a larger fan base in the late '90s and how social media platforms today allow viewers to bec...