Blog vs. Wikis

Blogs vs. Wikis- both of this new media functions are enhancing our communication and allowing us to stay connected worldwide.

But what is the difference between these two?? As I understood; blogs are social websites that enables people to create their own personal account, to post as much personal information as they wish to expose and most of all post their thoughts of different concepts on their page. From these pages they are raising questions, brainstorming ideas, or just simply communicating about the subject that interest them, while blogging with people from all over the world. This is a very neat function because everybody that becomes a member on such blogs can find a discussion subject and express their opinion. On these blogs, nobody can change, correct or add anything on the thought that you have already posted, but they can comment as much as they like.

While on the wikis, a certain community is created and everybody of that community has access to whatever you contribute. They can edit it, share their thought, change the look completely or just simply add to your comments.

All in all, both of these have same idea to enhance the communication among people, to speed things up and allow easier communication, but one in a worldwide way with a bit of privacy; while the other in a community way in which all the members can have a peak.

Old Media Vs. New Media

It has been a long time since we had to use a pencil and paper to write an essay. Such a long time that, it is almost unimaginable to function without the computers. I believe this is the first noticeable shift in Old vs. New media in the history of technology.

Hand written scripts vs. Massively manufactured, computer based production- Years ago…centuries even..books, and different scripts had a very difficult time of being produce. That said; it would take monks, moths and years to hand write certain scripts, for which copying technology in today era is much faster and easier.

TV years ago and TV now- This is still considered same media, but it has majorly expended its habits in today’s technology. Fifty years ago TV was a luxury and only certain programs were offered to public-the ones that were able to afford it. In today’s world this aspect is massively shifting to a broader-almost complete population of the world and it has become a number one informational unit for people. But now, if we compare computers and internet technologies in today’s era, even that new TV media is shifting its roots away and yielding its functions to internet and computers where much easier access is given to all worldwide affairs.

Looking at future- this new and popping culture of internet and mobile connections on every step of the way is possibly going to be exchanged with the new virtual world technologies that might be braking through in just few years.

New Media in the World of Arts.

Media in general is highly influencing everybody’s lives and new generations are being extremely exposed to this world of high-tech communication. Well not only that new media it is being conduct ed in communication, machinery, medicine and other areas of our lives, but now it is also changing the way we look at art.

An old school traditional, panel-color technique is being rapidly introduced to the new world media. Art installations are set up with impressive usage of light and video projections, the way museums are marketing themselfs these days, how and where is digital photography, animations and 3D designs taking us and how is high usage of technology replacing brush strokes and even our way of interacting with art.

That said, I plan to research and present new ways of looking at art. How this traditional method is slowly sleeping away and might it be replaced completely.

What is New Media

The new media technologies includes the world that surrounds us today. Starting from the evolution of computers, camers-that are now digital, TV that is high definiton radio and so on.
Internet is definatley a very important part of the new media, in the way that it enchansses the functions and communications through this new techlogy.
New media is resplasing old media in the way that is becomeing more funcational, portable and dependable through the world and its people.

Looking back at functions of TV or Newspapers which were the main aspect of communication and beeing connected with as much as possible up to date information that was going on in our communities-some time ago this was new media, today this is easily considered old media even though we still use it.
Today' much more advanced sistem for communications is available to us and those are computers and internet conections that easily replace all of these "Old Fashined" aspects of communication. Like in the article "Who needs a TV? I'm watching it on laptop." where this exeact replacement is mentioned. We do not need to schedule ourselfs to watch a particular show at the particular time if we can just simply go to the website of the same tv show's provider and watch it when ever it fits our schedule the best. For this kind of interactions with the new media internet is a preliminary sourse.