Digital Media

Hi,everybody,I am new to this digital "thing",so I will try to post my thoughts and understanding of Digital Media on my blog,like i said i am a "new born" so I will need all the help I can get,please leave commons, links and other useful resource that you think may be useful for me,THANKS!

Saturday 15 December 2012

Internet and Chinese democracy


The Internet, as a new medium has great practical and potential impact on society.
One potential impact is the improvement that online space has made in public and private
discourse, providing the marketplace of ideas vital to a democracy. Chinese online space is acting as a public sphere that allows ordinary citizens to discuss public affairs. When the public opinion is strong enough, it can influence public policies to ensure that they reflect and match real public interests. This is a big step in the progress of democracy in China.
Before internet can be widely accessible to the public in early 1996., the predominant role of all media was as an organ of the party, with their political orientation and fundamental policies depending largely or totally on those of the Party . Media didn’t need to care too much about market or readership because they were financially supported by government subsidy. They functioned as tool for the Party and government to create and disseminate political propaganda, rather than acting as a public sphere for citizens to discuss public and political issues. 
The era when people blindly believe what the government tells them is over. Likewise, the era when the people are too afraid to speak out is also over.

Apple the Evil Cult

Some people say Apple is a cult and they certainly are. That is why no one can really compete with them because they don't understand what it means to be a cult.Apple is just competing against ordinary people and  almost always wins or at least wins in the public relations area.Apple is more than a cult because they are just as passionately loved by ordinary users as they are by the geeks. That makes them a religion.
So if you think religion is evil, then Apple pretty much is evil. You want technology heaven? You follow their path. That's how religions work. you got have the latest iphones, ipod, ipad, ipadmini, "wait, you don't use apple product, what is wrong with you?" 
That's the deal we make with regular belief systems and Apple will not change any more than your favorite religion will. At least not fundamentally. So if you are talking about competing with Apple then you'll need some religion of your own because you can't seriously do this by numbers, or by the book.
Look at Microsoft - they were never better than Apple - but they got richer because they were anointed by a higher Power a/k/a IBM which gave them the exclusivity of owning their operating system.
So all those Google/Android/Palm Pre iPhone wannabes take heed. You can do OK against Apple by offering better features, better mobile carriers, lower prices and blah blah blah. But you can't win unless get a higher power to anoint you. Become the official phone of the Obama White House with one free call to the man. Or put yourself at the heartbeat of youth culture , say, by buying up every major record label and film company. Or better than that, finance their talent directly..... Or pay for every kid's online college education.
we all domed! dame you apple!

Wonderful Smart Phones



Smart phones are now an essential tool in our society, In Ireland in the past few years the number of smart phone users has also increased dramatically, iphone, blackberry, samsung galaxy, just few brands of smart phones in our society. They become integrated part of a person’s daily life and they are with us where ever we go. On the bus or train, reading newspapers, is becoming a thing of the past, catching up on the latest business news you increasingly see people with their smart phones, downloading and picking up important emails before they even get into the office. Lunch break in a park or waiting in a queue, people can pay their bills without physically going to the bank or post office, even in the gym when people are exercising they can check up on the baby sitter through live video feed.
Before smart phones, in the “old days” about ten years ago, in order to achieve multi functions such as today’s smart phone has you will need a computer, a camera, an mp3 or CD player, a game console and even more. Can you image to carry them everyday instead of a mobile phone? These days’ technologies have made our life so much simple and easier but also complicated more than ever the same time. As “the” technologies in our world, digital technologies are changing the way we conduct our private, social and business lives, and transforming our experience of media out of all recognition. Smart phones as part of digital technologies, it has made huge impact on our society.
Technology has always had an impact on society. First came the PCs that changed our life as we knew it. Then came along the mobile phones that transformed the way we communicated with each other. And finally came the smart phones that enabled us to do most of the things both the inventions did by just using one device. Nowadays there is an increased trend that more and more people have started to use smart phones. Their use has affected the society and culture in many ways, and lots those effects are in a good way. As time passes there will be new technologies to make them even “smarter”, the future is here today.


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