Essay

Question

1. Marc Prensky's "Emerging online life of the digital native" and Dave Weinberger's "A New World" both present different views of contemporary internet users. In light of your own experiences with new technologies do you think they are accurate portrayals? Discuss why or why not with specific examples.

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An essay by Yuqian Wu

Essay

The main idea in the essay is about two auditors discuss the internet users in a different views. Marc Prensky’s “Energing online life of the digital native” is about how this is differently in technology using by native digital and immigrant digital, and how they do it. Actually, Prensky’s opinion is about how people using new technology in the new world. Dave Weinberger’s “A New World” introduces the Web that brings challenges to our culture. Dave Weinberger pointed many things like “instant messaging” type of technology to send messages to friends, such as Msn, Yahoo or Skype. Weinberger provided that new technology change people’s behavior and life. Both of them create an insight on their views of the internet and what it facilitates to the world in today’s modern society. But in my opinion, I prefer “ Emerging online life of the digital”

Marc Prensky said “Emerging online life of the digital native”, He thought that today’s young people, is having the plentiful online life, this is in the development of creating for their own. It is increase the distance between Natives and Immigrants. In “Digital Natives” makes their every activity to create a new online ways of making each activity, within the new technology available to them. However, it brings forward that the difference between the digital native and digital immigrant. Digital immigrants not use new technology much more, or just use it as basic ways. Oppositely, digital natives use technology to create new life ways. Many students are not just using technology differently as today, but used as their daily activities differently. Digital Natives may be as important for this, but this online life has become the bigger areas than just the Internet. For example, Facebook and Myspace. This online life are also an entire strategy for how to live, survive and thrive in the 21st century (refer to ‘The Emerging Online Life of the Digital Native’ from http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp) , although the cyberspace has created to take part of the everyday life. Nowadays, many young students have lots of email address accounts. The daily activities that all people do are included “Digital Immigrants” to observe and examine how the Digital Natives have taught themselves in different ways in doing those activities. Prensky commented that there was one thing that everyone observes that even Immigrants were using the exact same technology such as eBay, blogs for doing things differently.

The datas show that the peer-to-peer (P2P) activity keeps increasing and those P2P applications are the most downloaded on the internet. (Prensky 2004) From my own experience as a digital native, the tendency of share all forms of entertainment (movies, video games, music,etc.) is just as huge as Prensky has stated. Although companies such as Apple (http://www.apple.com/itunes/) and others are encouraging users to pay relatively small amounts of money for music (and they are making some progress), there are still countless programs and websites that allow for the sharing of all the previously mentioned forms of media for no cost. Some of these programs include baidu (http://www.baidu.com/ ), Songtaste (http://www.songtaste.com/music/), and bittorrent program Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/).

Marc Prensky established two parts, one is called “digital native”, the other one is “digital Immigrant” digital native is the people who born in the digital age, almost pointed the people who growing after 20 century. The positive way for now day’s people using technology is creating the new way to use it and also rich their daily life. However, the negative way be brought by Prensky is people loosing lots of abilities than “Immigrant”. When people chatting with each other on line they always using abbreviations, this will cause younger people don't know how to write correct words. The other thing is about young people really spending more time on playing games on line, or makes friends. Child may loose ability to communicate with the real people. Those will become large problems what new technology brings to us. Although digital native is fashion, convenient, easy, have more fun. We still need to pay attention to those issues. Otherwise, young people may just like stay at home, play with themselves. They may loose the ability of society life communicating and social responsibility.

In conclusion, both supporting and opposing arguments must be taken into consideration since the viewpoints of the internet can become quite complex, and are far from concrete or objective. Weinberger see’s the internet as a place that has its own time and “Time like that can spoil you for the real world” (Weinberger, 2002). He sees it come out of technology that “sent a jolt through our culture, zapping our economy, our ideas about the sharing of creative works, and possibly even institutions such as religion and government” (Weinberger, 2002). He took out experiences on ebay.com and took out of context and describes it as a “new world we're just beginning to inhabit” (Weinberger, 2002) and compares it to Europeans first landing in America. Prensky describe of the web is different but accurate similarly, he sees it as a new world, except with ‘digital natives’ and ‘digital immigrants’ being the internet savvy and the people who are new to it and trying to learn “Digital Natives are programmed to – and want to – keep up with it. For adults, some new Digital Native behaviors may be worth immediately imitating and adopting” (Prensky, 2004). He also explained clearly on experiences with online shopping, online meeting and online chatting, but he describes the internet as a place where “Today norms and behaviors are changing much faster than in the past, because the technology changes rapidly” (Prensky, 2004) and is “new, emerging, different form of life” (Prensky, 2004) that cannot be ignored. Both of them provided their own experience and support their opinions. But I prefer Prensky’s “digital native” I thought it is more comprehensive and correct. He compares the digital native with the digital immigrant, list out the different between this two. It suits for today’s new world. We create new technology, developing by using it, and also got problem when using it.

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  Marc Prensky, Writing, 2008, viewed 14 October 2009, <http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp>
  
• Small pieces, Big Thoughts, by Andrew Hinton, August 12, 2002. Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design, viewed 14 October 2009, <http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/small_pieces_big_thoughts>
  
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DAY 10-- Tutorial Task

Old media communication - Television
Enhances:
Television helps the people to know more of the world. The biggest difference between television and newspaper should be that the television programs broadcast 24 hours everyday; however the newspaper just can be daily or weekly, so that television spread the information speedily.

Retrieves:
In a few years before, people can only see the word or heard the voice, but now, television combines both of them which are more lively and easy for people to understand.

Obsolesces:
Television has too many advertisements on during the programs which seems really horrible for the people who do not like waiting. Television also hurts people’s eyes, but what in my opinion which can not be avoided.

Reserves:
Maybe later on television will be replaced by computers. You can search what you like with free choices. The programs are without advertisements and update more quickly than television.


New media communication - Mobile phone
Enhances:
Mobile phones can enhance the communication between people regardless of the distance. In early time, we can hear people’s voice and send message through the mobile phone, in recent years, new technology even lead to a new revolution which we can also use video calls.

Retrieves:
In old times, we only can contact each other by using mails, which should take long to process and less secured. Mobile phones solve such kind of problems; we can use it any time or in anywhere. Video calls make the chatting more animated as we can also see their faces through the screen.

Obsolesces:
The biggest problem with the mobile phone should be the radiation which hurt people’s health. Maybe in later time, mobile phones will be obsolesced because such problem. For other issues such as mobile fees and some inevitable problems during the producing of mobile phones can also make mobile phones obsolesced.

Reserves:
I think mobile can be an amazing production in recent world, maybe it will be reserved later but at least not in the recent few years.

DAY 10--summary of lecture

Media ecology is a school of thought that considers how communication technologies become part of society, and in doing so become media on thought and language as part of our everyday culture is a primary focus, explored in areas such as orality, literacy and education.

The tetrad of Media
What does a medium enhance or extend?
What does it obsolesce?
What does it retrieve from older media?
What does it reverse or flip when pushed to its extreme?

Then we review the whole things we do during these two weeks.
A change of emphasis from place-to-place connectivity-based on individuals making and remaking connections in their social and computer networks…

DAY 9--summary of lecture

Today's lecture we saw some new thins, we use google earth to search each locations. And the I remember we use speedtest to test the download speed and upload speed from perm to our lecture room. I think this is more interesting. In the end we watch Jason Nelson's website. There are lots of games. However I dont like background songs, it is little bit frightening.

DAY 8-- Tutorial Task

Jason Nelson is a digital and hypermedia poet and artist. And also the lecturer on Cyberstudies, digital writing and creative practice in Griffith University{interesting}. He created his website in http://secrettechnology.com/ and reviewing some of the materials that he has posted about himself on this website.
Explore AT LEAST THREE of his creations…..
I explore
“i made this. you play this. we are enemies.” ‘game, game, game and again game. ‘
‘Pandemic Room’
Even though I don’t get how to play them, and as I said its little scared by the background songs. but I think they can be a new type of creation of a game aswell within this website

DAY 8--summary of lecture

Australia has reached our place in the queue time for our two-yearly Internet Censorship attempt, where the Government spends in excess of $100 Million each time to educate, filter, administer, prosecute, fix and block the problem. While politicians argue about filtering objectionable and questionable material, and what these words even mean to the average citizen, child pornography has grown and spread like a virus.
"Labor makes no apologies to those that argue that any regulation of the internet is like going down the Chinese road," he said. "If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd-Labor Government is going to disagree."

The issue of Internet censorship is hovering dangerously close to Government propaganda – the government is twisting facts and logic with statements that accuse anyone who is against censorship of being a pedophile to gain the support of the Australian family.

DAY 7-- Tutorial Task

• Sign an e-petition
• The e-petition I decided to sign was one that I found particularly relevant to my own personal situation; The Vehicle Registration 20% Increase.(http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1261&lIndex=-1)I had no issues signing this petition as it is one that affected me and I was therefore willing to sign it. This e-petition was located on the Queensland Parliament site.

• What is Barak Obamma up to today?
• The most prevelant issue that Barak Obamma is currently addressing is the Health Insurance Reform. He has delivered several speeches regarding this issue. An approach which he utilized to promote this issue was delivering a message that was uploaded directly onto his Facebook site via the link below.(http://www.facebook.com/barackobama?ref=pdb)The notion of cyber politics; a political presence on the web to promote campaigns, is one that is a crucial part of the Obamma campaign. His online presence does not stop at Facebook, as various links to his Twitter accounts and Myspace page and discussion Forums.

• Who are my Local, State and Federal RepresentativesLocal Representative: Gail McphersonState Representative: Steven RobertsonFederal Representative: Graham Perrett

• What do you think of the Australian Government’s plans to censor the internet (the so-called “Clean Feed”)?
• This internet censhorp is a plan that ALP endeavour to implement as mandatory in Australian. This differs from usual censorship products in that every internet connection in Australia will be subject to the filter (including schools, homes and corporations), rather than traditional software or network proxies which are typically used for organisation or home use.(http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=cleanfeed)I think that this censorship plan is wrong on several levels. Not only are internet companies opposed to this plan but Australians have demonstrated and indicated quite definitively that they are not in favour or such censorship plans. Moreover, these cencorship plans did not stipulate the content that would be banned which lends itself to the idea that this process is a slippery slope towards the government operating as a dictatorship rather than a democracy.

• Read the lecture and the readings, pursue a couple of the topics that you find most interesting and then post your blog with your well-considered thoughts about the theory and practice of politics.
• Cities as Machines
  The Shape of the City dictates the kind of lives that most peoplelead. The City in Bladerunner is avowedly post-modern,built up layer on layer but starting to lose its relevance - peopleare moving to the Off-World. Sometimes it is crowded, sometimesit is lonely - which is what cities are like: you can be anonymousin the crowd. It is LA; it is noir sci-fi; it is rushing intothe future unsure of its past, teetering on the brink ... of theocean, of the earthquake, of the race riots (consider Mike DavisCity of Quartz)... so it is hardly surprising that peopleare a bit edgy.
  Three non-exclusive alternatives:
  the city is a machine for living ... it creates human lifejust as humans create it
  the city is a natural thing, created by natural beings (humans)just as bee-hives and ant nests are created by natural beings
  the city is a living being ... a cyborg which combines humantissue with synthetic infrastructure. In the 1960s, a group of English architects designed a new typeof city. Their dream was of a city that built itself unpredictably,cybernetically, and of buildings that did not resist televisionand telephones and air-conditioning and cars and advertising,but accommodated and played with them; inflatable buildings, buildingson rails, buildings like giant experimental theatres with videocameras gliding like sharks through a sea of information, buildingsbedecked in neon, projections, laser beams. This project was calledArchigram and was detailed in a set of posters called ArchitecturalTelegrams.

• What place does censorship have in a democracy?
• The premise of a democratic society is directly contradicts censorship. The only censorship that should occur within a democratic society is one that the people elect themselves.

DAY 7-- Summary of Lecture

The Internet is a powerful forum for citizen political participation. In the last few federal elections, ordinary citizens used the Internet to organize, raise money, report the news, and offer commentary, and they had a significant impact on the 2004 Presidential campaign. The 2006 election promises an even more influential role for Internet activists.
New federal campaign finance rules for the Internet have freed bloggers and almost all other citizen-initiated political advocacy on the Internet from any regulation. You can be a part of the online revolution in politics, help reinvent and reinvigorate our democracy, and transform political discourse. It's a good idea to have a basic understanding of the new rules.

the Internet might change the lives of the average person as much as did the telephone in the early 1900s and the advent of television in the 50's and 60's. Also to be taken into account is the debate as to whether the Internet might be changing the nature of power relations and political activity in society.

DAY 6-- Tutorial Task

Essay Question

Marc Prensky's "Emerging online life of the digital native" and Dave Weinberger's "A New World" both presentdifferent views of contemporary internet users. In light of your own experiences with new technologies do you think they are accurate portrayals? Discuss why or why not with specific examples.

http://www.smallpieces.com/content/chapter1.html

Small Pieces Loosely Joined, David Weinberger, 2002, Chapter 1 – A New World, viewed 14 October 2009,
This website is about the theory of Dave Weinberger’s “ A New World”


http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/
Marc Prensky, Writing, 2008, viewed 14 October 2009,
This website has lots of journal written by Marc Prensky. Therefore I can know more about the opinion from Marc Prensky.

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/small_pieces_big_thoughts
Small pieces, Big Thoughts, by Andrew Hinton, August 12, 2002. Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design, viewed 14 October 2009,
This article is written by Andrew Hinton, he said” Small Pieces isn’t for tweed-encrusted academics—it’s for the somewhat educated masses. This book is like its subject, the Web. It’s an amalgam of ideas and obsessions, observations and perceptions that the author is releasing upon the public, hoping others will take these ideas and run with them.”

http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
Web 2.0: Something Remarkable Going On, April 27, 2006. IP Democracy,viewed 14 October 2009,
From this website, it explain more about web 2.0.

http://www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/emailrel.html#asynchron

The last one is about the E-Mail Communication and Relationships, It includes different types of E-Mail Communication and Relationships, such as text, face to face, spam and so on.

DAY 6-- Summary of Lecture

Video game genres are used to categorize video games based on their gameplay interaction rather than visual or narrative differences. A video game genre is defined by a set of gameplay challenges. They are classified independent of their setting or game-world content, unlike other works of fiction such as films or books. For example, an action game is still an action game, regardless of whether it takes place in a fantasy world or outer space. Within game studies there is a lack of consensus in reaching accepted formal definitions for game genres, some being more observed than others. Like any typical taxonomy, a video game genre requires certain constants. Most video games feature obstacles to overcome, so video game genres can be defined where obstacles are completed in substantially similar ways.

Video games is more funny than tranditional one. And the screen, the picture is more beautiful. There are some role-play games, each role have their own storys. Therefore it is rich context. Can abstract people more and more.

DAY 5-- Summary of Lecture

eDemocracy represents the use of information and communication technologies by selected actors within political and governance processes of local communities. This covers everything from the political campaigning on the internet and the government’s use of the internet to raise awareness and debate on issues to the people’s use of new technologies to criticise governments and reveal their mistakes.

the increasing concentration, centralisation and commercialisation of the mass media appear to have foreclosed avenues for democratic participation in the current representative democracy. Free speech was also discussed in the lecture as it allows citizens to discuss the key attributes of democracy.

Computer hackers and cyberpunks were also discussed. Computer hackers are people who seek to free information whilst, Cyberpunks are referred to as part of a science fiction genre based around the possibilities of interent in computers, genetics, body modifications and corporate developments in the near future.

(The tutorial task is in the older post under DAY 1)

My video

DAY 4--Summary of Lecture

The Creative Commons by Corey Doctorow is essentially discusses two main ideas. The first half of the article traces copyright back through history, highlighting the advantages, disadvantages and advancements that have occurred. The latter half of the article discusses what Creative Commons seeks to do: their objectives, services and how and where they operate.
As mentioned, the article commences by prefacing the reader with background information regarding copyright. A summation of the first paragraph indicates that initially, for the vast majority of the time that copyright has been in place, it has not been something applicable to a broad range of works. Rather, copyright was only granted and applied to a very specific and unique group of works. More specifically, governmental associations only granted copyright to authors who had or were registered with national libraries. This method proved adventagoues in the sense that copies of the copyrighted work were held in the respective governments repositories, thus making it easier to locate and identify the individual creator of the work if they needed to be contacted.

Next part is about the Free Software. The comparison between free speech and free beer is set up early within the article to illustrate to the reader that free software is a matter of liberty, not of price. Essentially, a users access to Free Software comes in conjunction with four associated freedoms.
*The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (Freedom 0)

*The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish(Freedom 1)

*The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbour (Freedom 2)

*The freedom to improve the program and release your improvements to the general public, so that the whole community benefits.

DAY 3-- Tutorial Task

Part 1

1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?

Alan wore gas mask while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park

http://www.alltheweb.com/

2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?

By the end of 1969, four host computers were connected together into the initial ARPANET.

In the place of UCLA, Stanford, University of California, and University of Utah.

http://www.web-friend.com/help/general/pc_history.html (searched by Yahoo)

3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955)

He sold his first software in 1975, therefore he is just 20 years old

http://www.bing.com/. (searched by Yahoo)

4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?

In center, CERN

http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1367151,00.html (searched by

Yahoo)

5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a

personal computer from 30 years ago?

1970

Intel announces the 1103, a new memory chip containing more than 1,000 bits of

information. This chip is classified as random-access memory (RAM).

Intel introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 on November 15, 1971.

1974

Intel's improved microprocessor chip, the 8080 becomes a standard in the computer

industry.

Today the power of PC is Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E7500 (2.93GHz, 1066FSB, 3MB) .

This is one DELL PC as a example.

http://www.computerhope.com/history/196080.htm

http://configure.ap.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=s210219au&c=au&l=en&s=dhs&cs=audhs1

6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?

It was grown by Norman Craven of Cannington,

weighing in at 8 lb 6 oz

http://www.vintageassessments.com/vd/rawf_2003.html

7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?

Queensland was separated in 1859s.

The Tweed River is a short river in the North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

Its drainage basin consists mostly of the erosion caldera of the Tweed Volcano, a huge

extinct volcano of which Mount Warning is the volcanic plug. The branches of the river join

at Murwillumbah and flow about 20 kilometres northeast to Tweed Heads where they enter

the sea.

http://www.ask.com/

8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?

I just found it was raining on November 1954.

http://www.wunderground.com/global/Region/AU/Temperature.html

9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?

He bragged that he had sex with 250 women over the course of one year. The sheer

brazennes and multiplicty of his sexual swath astonished people.

http://www.altavista.com

10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?

The band is Black Assassins.

His real name is Stephen Stockwell

http://www.bing.com/

Part 2

• How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?

Wordtracker helps you choose the right internet marketing keywords that will help your

search engine placement and ranking. Use Wordtracker for keyword research. Web

marketing is all about search engine ranking, and that starts with the proper internet

marketing keywords. Get a free keyword report and web site promotion information!

Some people achieve a top 10 placement in a major search engine and get plenty of traffic.

Others do the same but get nothing. Why?

Simple. The first group selected keywords that many people are searching on, and the

second did not!

Discover the right keywords, and you'll see your traffic skyrocket!

• who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?

The top of the search results are the high CTR of the web, It is that the highest click rate

web will be the first one display on the search results.

• what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?

My favourite search engine is Google. Google is quick and easy to search and get the

answer. I can use Google Earth to find out any position, search image from

Google. Sometimes I found the Desktop which from Google is more than others.

DAY 3--Summary of Lecture

The lecture is talking about the media. Media is about the technology used for social communication. On the Internet no body know who you are. Social network is about the group of people who have common interests of network. Web 2.0 is read-write web. Most of website is using the information from users or abstract people to browse that wedsite. As the high CTR, the website can gain more money from posting advertisment.

DAY 2-- Tutorial Task

Part 1



This video is talking about the Internet communication and its is funny as well.

Part 2

I used new MSN for nearly 6 years. It's really convenient for my life, it is easier, quicker and cheaper. The first time I use it cause my sister's recommendation. She wanted to chat with me on the Internet. I haven't faced much more about the privacy issue. However like Google and Face book is collecting the information from users. I think this has benefit in both sides. Users use the Facebook to communicate with their friends. Facebook can earn from advertisement. I have some friends just chatting on the Internet. Sometimes, I feel I can tell them my mood more than friends in real world. I think they didn't know my other friends, so would not worried if they tell my things to my friends.

DAY 2--summary of lecture

In today's lecture our major topic is the history of computer and Internet. Charles Babbage create the first computer machines and be published by IBM in 1950s. In 1970s, the first PC called "0" is released. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak establish the APPLE co.. IBM was a large ultra-conservative firm and slow to move. That's about the history of computer. Next part is about the Internet.

definition of Internet:
(i) is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol(IP) or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons;
(ii)is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons, and/or other IP-compatible protocols; and
(iii) provides, uses or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure described herein.
(according to lec notes)

The World Wide Web(www) is emerged in the 1990s as people using computer to communicate with each other. The web is just one part of Internet. Early Internet Applications like electronic mail(email)，File Transfer Protocol (FTP)，Internet Relay Chat (IRC) ，MUDs, MOOs, MUSHes, etc. The more recent Internet application such as Facebook/Myspace, Twitter, Voice chat (Skype) and so on.

DAY 5-- Tutorial Task

3D Chat World moove online. Create your personal 3D Chat world: This revolutionary virtual 3D Chat world is installed on your own computer - always available to you and can be used offline. You alone decide the look of your 3D Chat world - customize freely and individually. You alone control access to your 3D Chat world - keep your privacy. Furnish and decorate your virtual 3D rooms: You will receive an unlimited number of 3D rooms. Decorate the rooms with usable, interactive 3D furniture, your own pictures, graphics, paper walls, install mirrors , change the lighting , place furniture, lay carpets, Webcam, Voice, access control. Easily create your very own, virtual 3D avatars: Dress up your 3D avatars with the unique Actor Studio - as if you were using your own wardrobe. Lifelike, animate gestures, facial expressions and movements: laughing, kissing, hugging, shaking hands and more... Chat with Friends - Explore the virtual 3D neighborhood. Use the Visit & Chat list of the moove online community - this list is sorted by your interests. Click on a name and you are on your way to the chosen member. Visit others and be visited - find a new love and marry virtually. Exchange files and show your own pictures. Use webcam and voice support to get to know your Chat partner even better. Find friends, fall in love with your virtual neighbor - members from all over the world.

Therefore, 3D chat is more like in the real world. People can communicate from some actions not just words. It is more interesting!

DAY 1---Introduction of new communications techologies

My name is Abby, I'm from china and have been to Australia for 2 years. My major is Accounting. Cause there is a long summer holiday, I chose the new communications technologies as my elective course. I am interested in doing blog. I hope to learn more about computer technologies after this course.

In today's class. We learning what is new communication technologies. New communication technologies offer many opportunities and several threats to the efforts organizations expend to build mutually beneficial relationships with key public. The benefactor of these emerging technologies may be those interested publics who want information and evaluations from all participants in public policy issue debate. Taking an issues management approach to new technologies, the rich dialogues that can occur on the Web. There, because of the low costs of information and opinion delivery, companies, governmental agencies, and activists are more on par.

The new communication such as Blog, Ebay, Television, Email, Facebook, Twitter, Digital media, Postal system, Marketing. The audiovisual media of radio, television, movies,and music are increasingly being created, stored, produced, and distributed through digital means with profound impact on the choice and experience of consumers and economics for content creators and producers. A new medium, the Internet, has become indispensable for electronic commerce, social interaction, and the delivery of news, information, and entertainment.