Gurvir's Blog

I believe that virtual worlds can be used in a number of different ways. People use virtual worlds for video games, meditating, health, educational seminars and other reasons which result in real life like experiences. Some pros of of virtual worlds are that they foster creativity and allow for users to experience events that they may otherwise be unable to. In some instances, people can be healed in health through a virtual world when they had to way to do so in the real world. Playing video games builds eye-hand coordination and also helps users relieve stress, socialize and better their communication skills. Meditating is the same in both the real world and the virtual world but sometimes you can create a different environment for yourself through a virtual world. Educational seminars are constantly growing and growing throughout the world and these are important because they connect classrooms, interns, workers, and just people in general from all over the world. In the article i...

A Twitter discussion varies from a BlackBoard Discussion in a number of ways. First off, based on today's assignment, the discussion was open to all the students in our class but I don't see why no one else could join in on the conversation. All our tweets were public so pretty much anyone who follows us or was tracking the hashtag could see our posts and further debate with us on our thoughts. Also, Twitter is a lot less restricted in titles, content and etc. It only has a character count so one would have to really think about what they wanna say in the most concise way possible. On a discussion board, I could hypothetically type essays if I wanted to. Now in comparison to a in-class discussion, everything is totally different. On Twitter, every user is protected from one another through their screens. In the real world, we would all be face to face and we could see each other's body expressions, change of tone and etc. It would give us a better understanding of what a pe...

The 4 social networking sites I visited were Facebook, Twitter, Reddit & LinkedIn. Personally, I only really use Facebook, Reddit & LinkedIn. On first glance, I can immediately tell the difference between all the websites. Facebook is more of a place to tell a story, share your thoughts and share memories/updates with your friends. The very blue background makes the user want to stay on the website and browse through the many different things the website has to offer. Maybe this is why I constantly find myself aimlessly digging through photos, videos, old status updates from my friends. Twitter seems almost like a blogging website to me. Although there is a word limit, I constantly find my friends and other people sharing their most deepest thoughts or interesting parts of their days on Twitter. You don't really see that on Facebook or anything else so to me, Twitter is a social networking site for someone who constantly may want to express him/herself. Reddit on the other-...

          Social networking can be used in a number of different ways for corporations, ordinary people and even people of power. Corporations use social networking these days to market their products or services and they are always willing to pay a lump sum of money to get their ads out on social media. Every one lives on their phones these days so it makes sense why corporations target people on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. On the flip side, ordinary people use social media to let their friends know what is going on in their lives, a cool trip they might have gone on, a big event in their life, a celebration, or maybe even what they had for dinner the previous night. We live in a time where the conversations we have with one another can last longer online than in person and it just goes to show that social networks are becoming stronger and stronger. Powerful people like our president can also use social networks to influence people within s...

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...