Kulturnetzwerk

How did this change our communication/interaction with people?

Before the car we all lived in very enclosed communities that we were born into. Before the printing press most of our communication was with people we saw in person and daily now Facebook is allowing us to choose who we live and interact with but without knowing the feeling of little isolation, wont be loose our voice in the din-and how can we develop the capacity to have a sense of self, separate from the community we are constantly in touch with (cf. Wittkower)? Weiterlesen →

What’s different about Facebook compared to other social networks?

Facebook captures information about how human individuals are connected, it innates human desires for self-expression, designs human connection, and gives a sense of belonging (cf. Shih, 2011). Shih says: “Social networking sites capture pictures, feelings, and relationships and make the web feel human again” (Shih, 2011, p.12), Facebook builds on trust, rareness (Uni-Networks), engagement, is social and personalized (cf. Shih, 2011, p.29). Weiterlesen →

How social networks like Facebook effect the way we work:

Shih argues that the online social networking movement affects the workplace and the adapting of technologies in a way that it creates a blur between personal and professional worlds. Businesses and individuals now purchase on friends recommendations (cf. Shih, 2011), meaning the costumer is not a passive recipient anymore, not waiting for updates or on hold, they have a voice and it matters, they become not only ‘prosumers’ but now ‘produsers‘ (Produsage: user-generated production/content), which at the end was the overall purpose why the internet was created (the ARPANET was sharing/linking files, WWW and now social networks link ideas). Weiterlesen →

“Facebook changed the way we think and act when it comes to social interaction and relations; and by now even when it comes to economic thinking of work, commercialisation and how we treat copyright law!” Weiterlesen →

Big Data: Refer to a term used in media, business, and computer science industry. There is no definition in the field of media but in the sense of computer data, big data have a size beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture and manage or process them, within a tolerable time. Search engines like Google for example produce big data, and social networks like Facebook. It basically means a lot of data, in computer language a lot of 0’s and 1’s (Manovich, 2011). Weiterlesen →