Essays on Myspace

In the last few decades, the use of social media has taken over peoples’ lives. In fact, it is hard to believe that several years ago there was no Facebook or Twitter. It is worth mentioning that three decades ago, cell phones were only available to the wealthy members of society and the commoners only waited to hear from each other through telegraphs, letters, and other outdated methods. Today, social media sites such as MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn as well as virtual world’s such as Second Life, Sims, Club Penguin, and video sites such as YouTube and blogs ...

Introduction

Use of internet and electronic technology has contributed to psychology through creating communication and relation platforms for psychologist and their customers. It is a mediating medium whereby the psychologists are connected to their clients through online mechanisms. Web sites, Web-based advertising, professional networking and electronic data storage are technology roles that are applied in the psychology practice. Furthermore, psychologists’ use technology in research and innovations. This helps in gathering more information relating to online therapeutic intervention and internet-based treatments. The new technology contributes new opportunities in the psychology practice and profession and it results is double edged. There are ...

Dear Kenneth! Your work represents the basic information about the most popular social media sites. It becomes clear even for newcomers, which one to choose – in accordance with individual needs and preferences. You have depicted the social media platforms in accordance with the major areas of their activities, and thus, the target audience. The only question in this case emerges - why do You think that the social media sites represent “too many negativities about people”? It was already indicated by the scholars that the active and effective engagement into the social media is an easy tool for ...

The purpose of a marketing audit report is to enable an organization to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the marketing department relative to the use of alignment skills, processes, and systems because these processes affect the return on investment. Information revealed from this process can disclose the need for opportunities that can improvement the present marketing processes. As an example, if a company desires to achieve a higher performance level in its business, there will be the need to increase effectiveness while also improving the return on investment (Patterson, 2009). This could mean that the organization needs to ...

Modern devices today especially smartphones are vital to the tectonic shift taking place in both the business and media world. This is because what you do with your smartphone while at the train station while waiting for a train, avoiding your daily chores, idling around or probably at the bus station waiting for a bus is helping a company raise revenues and incur profits. This is the case for Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook where most people spend time on. For this reason, Facebook is the leading brand ahead of other companies involved in technology. An article from New York ...

Throughout the years, the world has advanced more through the usage of technology and the benefits it brings. In the beginning, there were only desktop computers that could do a limited amount of work, and now they have been transformed in portable tablets, laptops, and even phones. With this much portability on technology, it was certain that certain websites dedicated to keeping in touch with people were invented. The first successful social media website that was around during the early days of the internet was Myspace. Just like the social media websites today, a person could update their page ...

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Abstract

The importance of social media effects on families and communities has been determined by the research findings based on the investigation of existing literature. The principal objective of the study is to examine the influence of social media on our everyday life. Besides, another investigative goal is to identify possible consequences that social media may bring. Therefore, this study implies the utilization of both secondary research and primary research approaches. The expected ...

Executive Summary 3

The Concept of Social Media Marketing (SMM) – An Introduction 4 A brief introduction of Gordmans Stores Incorporated and the manner in which its vision and mission statement has influenced its digital marketing strategy and decision-making 4

Three Key Recommendations on How Gordmans Stores Incorporated could Apply Digital Marketing Strategies and Benefit from this Concept 5

Recommended Strategy Number 1 - Social Media Marketing Approaches 5 The Passive Approach 5 The Active Approach 6 Recommended Strategy Number 2 – Reach Unique Target Market for B2B Connections 6 Recommended Strategy Number 3 – Interact Actively with Visitors and Customers to get Personal 7 Conclusion 8

References 9

Executive Summary This paper is aimed at making simple, concise and relevant strategic recommendations using which Gordmans ...

The Court of Appeals should reverse the district court’s decision, and grant to Ms. Eriksen a motion for preliminary injunction, because Ms. Eriksen engaged in constitutionally protected free speech. This case encompasses the violation of First Amendment rights and this court ought to “conduct an independent examination of the record as a whole, without deference to the trial court.” Bery v. City of N.Y., 97 F.3d 689, 691 (2d Cir. 1996). For the First Amendment issues, the appellate courts must make an independent inspection of the whole record in order to ensure that lower court decisions do not ...

BIG DATA: Can Google Use Big Data to Create Personal Assistant?

Abstract This paper will investigate the concept of Big Data and how this can be used by Google to create a personal assistant with more powerful features. Big data simply refers to the huge loads of data collected from the internet and other social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon, MySpace and several others. Innovations that employ big data to create personal assistants are not new in the technology sphere. Yet there are several problems with the use of Big Data such as information security which can affect the privacy and safety of the users and companies ...

Within our constitution we have the privilege of utilizing the first amendment. As American citizens, we are allowed to speak our minds on things that matter to us. In this paper, I will review the classic free speech case study of a student going against the desires of the reigning student administration with undesired results. In this essay, I will argue that the school went too far in their claims against the student’s freedom of speech. When Littleton High School student, Bryan Lopez, posted unfavorable comments on his MySpace page regarding his school’s deteriorating conditions and biased ...

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Introduction:

“Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand” (Martin, n.d). This quotation belongs to Amy Jo Martin, an American author, and speaker, founder, and CEO of Digital Royalty. She is right for 100%, as indeed our life has been changed since social media entered it. It goes without saying that it influences the way we communicate and behave, as today we can be judged not ...

Users of the internet and other social networking sites, voluntarily relinquish personal information to millions of other users and businesses. Unbeknownst to many, these businesses collect user information for marketing purposes. These businesses are not responsible for the overt use of the internet and sharing of information by users, and the government is not liable either. Online users are solely responsible for the lack of user privacy on social networking sites. Privacy is “the right of people to control what details about their lives stay inside their own homes and what leaks to the outside” (Barnes). Social media includes ...

Summary of the Article

Technology plays a key role in influencing the way various genres of music impact on the lives of individuals. Unlike in the past where many relied on music CDs, modern advancements such growth of the internet has led to mass downloading of music from the huge online collections that contain millions of tracks. The major challenge is how to fulfill the demands of tens of millions of people seeking to rely on the online sources for musical entertainment. In spite of music being readily available in digital form and other convenient ways of online distributions, there is need for ...

Management: Face Book Case Analysis

Introduction Being the most recognized and the most expensive social network in the world Facebook “enjoys three advantages over rivals: technological capabilities, economies of scale in its infrastructure, and most importantly, network effects” (Dawar, 2014). When Zucerberg says that Facebook is not the one thing, we tend to agree, since from the initial idea of being a social portal for college students today Facebook is available for variable companies, businesses and organizations. From what seemed to be an absence of a formulated strategy Facebook managed to gain from the received experience, absorb the knowledge and define its’ future.

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In their research paper, Bobkowski and Pearce analyze data to discuss how people share their religious beliefs on social networks. The data was gathered from 2007, when MySpace was still a popular social network and a lot of young adults and adolescents were a part of it, but data gathered from Facebook has the most significance because Facebook is currently the most popular social network in the world. The study also measured the quantity of self-disclosure online, and one of the hypotheses stated that people who have stronger religious beliefs and practice will engage in more religious disclosure online. Other hypotheses suggested ...

Communication

Latest communication and technological developments facilitated communication industry. Innovation and new inventions created new dimensions in the communication world. Social media is a dynamic form of communication in today’s world. Social media is a set of websites collected along with their services and practices to support participation, exchange, and sharing etcetera among its users, giving birth to communities. Social media especially Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etcetera have become an integral part among the young generations (Junco & Mastrodicasa 2007). Most of the high school and college students use social media to connect and share with their friends.

Significance

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Information technology as a phenomenon that plays a significant role in the life of society and human is relatively recent. Many experts connect it with the information revolution that started at the beginning of the 90s of the last century. The greatest influence on this process was by the development of local and global networks, industry of personal computers production, the Internet widespread, but the main driver of this process was the emergence of new services for the globalization of information exchange (creating the World Wide Web for standardization of search and delivery of multimedia documents). Today I consider that it ...

Facts

For 18 months between March 2013 and September 2014, the appellants, fourteen students of Huntsville Schools in Huntsville Alabama, allege that the school illegally set up and maintained illegal and invasive systems to observe their activity on worldwide web social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. The appellants further allege that Huntsville Schools, working under the jurisdiction and authority of the Alabama Public School Systems (the defendant), expelled them from the institution based solely on the information unscrupulously acquired on the internet. The appellants additionally suggest that the defendant worked in collusion with the National Security Agency (NSA) ...

How they Have Changed Music Production

Abstract The music industry has made many changes over the years. From old style music played on phonographs, to music made purely on a computer, the past century has brought forth incredible technology. Arguably, the biggest change in music production has come in the form of digital audio workstations (DAWs). DAW’s have changed the music industry from being dependent on large music production studios, to being able to happen in anyone’s living room. The purpose of this paper is to explain the many ways in which DAW’s have impacted the music production industry. In order ...

The Rise and Inglorious Fall of MySpace

1. Do you agree with the fast moving technology, fickle user behavior and swirling public perception are an extremely volatile mix The nature of the above factors and their effects influenced my view. I strongly agree that these factors are strong in influencing a situation. They are volatile mix as indicated by the author. The dramatic changes we see in communication and relationship can be attributed to fast moving technology. User behavior changes with time and unimaginably with situations. These changes have a strong tendency to influence peer’s perception and attitude towards a platform usage. All these changes and the benefits that ...

It has been slightly over a decade since the infamous Tom launched the first major social network, Myspace. The site provided a way for current friends to chat and old friends to reconnect. It was not long before Myspace became an epicenter for new and old friendships, as well as a display of the individual’s personality, making it aptly titled. With the progression of Myspace, and other social networks like Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram have stopped encouraging friendships and started encouraging the sharing of thoughts and photos. What was once a tool for connection to others, a network, had become an instrument ...

Why do you think Facebook has been so successful?

Facebook is social networking site, responsible for connecting millions of people round the globe. People find their friends and family members from all the distant places in the world right on their desktop screen every time. A facility charging you nothing, yet connecting so intimately, makes you love it all the time (Ebert and Griffin). Sharing of updates, presence and absence from places, sentiments, success and grief and getting feedbacks from friends, all are positive attributes of Facebook. With billions of users globally, commercial corporations and business owners find it the best way to attract such a huge chunk ...

Section 2: Literature Review

Implementation of Facebook in Nursing Education Programs 2.1 Introduction The inception of various social networking sites, such as Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Twitter, and LinkedIn, has attracted billion of users from all over the world, bridging geographical barriers by providing a seamless service of communication through which people may build and expand both their professional and personal networks. Especially, Facebook being at the peak of its success and being the most popular social networking site, various businesses have started making use of this great social platform to leverage their business operations and marketing practices. The education sector too is ...

Taking Control in the 21st Century

The advancement of online networking and online engineering has changed the way people live and had provided a faster and easier means of communication. The emergence of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Instagram had made it possible for people to connect with their family and friends around the globe. Aside from changing the way we communicate, digital technology had also altered the meaning of privacy that poses risks to the American society. This phenomenon is indicated in Clive Thompson's article "I'm so Totally, Digitally Near You: the Daring New Universe of Computerized Closeness", Jeffrey Rosen's "The End ...

The advent of social media brought on a firestorm of new outlets for internet users. Suddenly individuals were able to connect from all over the world with the click of a button on a single site, or several single sites as others began to pop up. After MySpace began gaining popularity in 2004, social media took off with other sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and SnapChat. It seems that every day a new social media is at our disposal, and even sites like Pinterest are allowing users to access social media features that were once not available on their sites. Essentially, social media ...

Swearing holds a unique place in society that is rife with contradictions. It can elevate one’s image as bold and assertive, and simultaneously diminish another’s image as uncouth and aggressive. It is perceived as unacceptable language in the classroom, yet essential on the sea deck. There is an innate hierarchy in swear words or phrases, which is constantly shifting. Societal change largely dictates acceptance or rejection of obscenities. Some words or phrases become acceptable within common vernacular and others mutate into objectionable vitriol. Words that were heard only in watering holes are now common on primetime television. In ...

Facebook and MySpace have become popular social networks across the globe. It is evident that, the inventors, Tom Anderson (MySpace) and Mark Zuckerburg (Facebook) did a tremendous job in creating these sites because of their popularity. Mark Zuckerburg and Tom Anderson have created a platform whereby friends and family members can keep in touch from any part of the world without any difficulties. Facebook and MySpace share similar features on their websites, for instance, instant messenger, family and friends profiles, picture sharing, and privacy settings. However, despite them having similarities, most users would prefer one site over the other because; there ...

Executive Summary

HWNS is a service provider for members of the physically challenged community with disabilities. The HWNS facilities are located in ACT, Queensland and NSW. These facilities supply a diverse scope of services and supports to a population of three thousand physically challenged people who possess disabilities. . One years and three months ago, in July 2013, the National Disability Insurance System initiated pilot programs and continued expansion with the pilot program until July 2014. The comprehensive implementation of the plan will not be in effect for another four years. This initiative is a primary social reform that is intended to be one of the ...

- Cyworld has taken the concept of rivalry among the already existing business rivals or competitors to relate to a fresh and new market that had not been penetrated. From the face value and the look of things, it was apparent that the technological and e-players were trying for ways and mean to solidify their customer base and foundations. This is the reason as to why Cyworld saw the opening and the need to combine some of the services and programs that the opponents and the rivals were using to their advantage (Ackerman, Cranor & Reagle, 1999, p. 5). It is ...

The international integration has contributed to the development of cultural and trade interaction. Social media refer to the usage of modern technology, especially through mobile applications to enhance social interaction. Technological advancement has enhanced the growth of social media industry; people have ventured into the industry due to the increased opportunities. The virtual immediate response, time, and hogging space have been useful in fostering the social media development (Adams para 1). It is crucial to assess the history, development, pros, cons, and impact of social media in the modern society. Communication development has encountered various changes as various ...

Social networking can simply be defined as the use of dedicated websites and applications to communicate informally with other users, or as a form to find people with similar interests to oneself. Through social media people share information and personal opinion. Over the years social networking has had a rapid growth among teenagers. Far too much of their time is spent online chatting with friends or family, uploading pictures, watching videos and playing games online. The most famous social networking websites are; Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Instagram. With the misuse of these sites teenagers suffer extreme consequences such as depression, bad ...

Cyberbullying

Since its inception, people are always seen seeking refuge to the powers of the internet as it is now the quickest and most efficient way to perform tasks and activities normally requiring immense effort and time. From complex applications such as computing and analysis to simple applications such as chatting, and socializing; everything can be done through the internet. However, while the internet admittedly has its benefits, it also has setbacks and dangers as it now increases the severity of oppressive acts such as bullying and how it is done. In the United States, reports of cyberbullying continues to ...

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Abstract

Internet has been a useful in providing information and bringing news concerning the business world and the entertainment world. The use of internet has been made even possible through the existence of Wi-Fi in which people are able to access the internet at any period of the day. Among the many users of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, young adults are considered to be the most proactive particularly in constantly updating their status. In a paper-and-pencil survey provided to 545 young adults of diverse backgrounds, most of them were ages 21 or 22, over 507 of ...

Facebook is a social networking platform which most people use. Apart from connecting with

Old Friends and sharing love and affection to them, some people use it as an effective instrument For Advertisements and business. Facebook uses some business strategies to attract new Customers and new businesses and some of them are mentioned as below: . Putting Facebook redirection links on famous websites which people use on a daily basis. . Using the traffic of many identified websites by providing an option of logging into their

Respective accounts via Facebook credentials.

.Sending out an Email blast: Letting all people know about his presence on Facebook which acts

A big advertisement instrument.

.Use of Facebook Plug-in: Integrating Facebook Plug-in with different websites ...

Executive Summary

Mission Statement Genesis Entertainment is a modern entertainment business that focuses on exceptional rap music, merchandise, and entertainment normally overshadowed by the mainstream ideologies. The entertainment business aims to bring music joy to the individuals of all the ages, provide services, which exceeds customers’ expectations, and quality products at pocket friendly prices. What’s more, Genesis Entertainment aims to offer fair compensation to its members of staff and a fair return to the owner.

Goals

- Create a steady revenue stream from sales of the new album, ‘Genesis’, merchandising, digital sales, and live performances. - Establish and grow the corporation into a ...

The life of teenagers is influenced greatly by the internet and the aspects of social media. The teenagers are exposed to a virtual world where their parents does not participate in. The effects of internet on adolescences is well reflected in this film by showing various ways in which the lives of the teenagers were altered due to the use of internet. The social lives of the children were modified highly due to the exposure to excessive and irrelevant materials on the internet. The social media like Facebook and Myspace affected greatly the interaction of the teenagers on the internet ...

Introduction:

The media is an important source of information. The media has become very influential in modeling people’s lives through different decades. The society today thrives on the media a reliable source where they get informed. The coming of new media has become more influential in the recent days. Social media has become very influential and has been used by everyone across the board for business and recently politicians have turned to the social media as a way of furthering their agenda. Many of the elite groups of politicians have used the media to reach out and organize their supports. Many ...

I. Introduction Social media has undeniably changed the way the world functions. Globalization has provided a world with few limitations as far as travel and information exchange are concerned, and one of the most interesting aspects of the changing nature of the world is the way that humanity has adapted to use the new technologies available. While there has long been a fear that humanity would use technology for evil-- indeed, much of Victorian and science fiction literature is concerned with the nature of technology and what happens when humanity fails to use technology in an ethical manner-- those who ...

Introduction

The internet is viewed as the ultimate resource for what people desire, whether in terms of information or relationships (Fried 1). This fact has made parents blinded by the many benefits of the internet and they have failed to notice how much it may have a negative impact on their children. Children may be exposed to pornography, racism and many other vices. Many criminals have been noted to prey on innocent children through different platforms. Parents are not always sure what children have seen or whom they have talked to while online. Internet sex crimes involve adults who meet, create a ...

In today’s world, the use of online research tools is inevitable; students, as well researchers, are taking to the internet to look for information. As a result, a lot of information is finding its way into online databases in order to satisfy this need. As the number of online information databases increases, there is need to consider the end-user in information organisation. All information systems should have in mind the end-user. The end-user is crucial in database design and development because he/she provides a judgement based on his/her interaction with the database. In most cases, users expect to find the ...

The 21st century is the time of huge technological progress. It is hard to imagine that something like ten years ago social media was significantly less developed than nowadays, because networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, fast internet connection, texting and many other things people enjoy doing now were only on the stage of creating, testing. It is a good thing that the World is moving forward, everything is changing for better, mostly. The new phenomena comes along with the technological and informational progress, improvement of Social media. Internet has been used more and more by the users with different ...

Social Web and Communication

Abstract Social web is a popular web tool that allows users to interact in real-time with other users in the web community to share common interests. The principles of sharing and connecting with virtually unlimited number of individuals in a given network define the fundamental role of social web in communication. This paper will discuss the areas of importance that social web is playing in communication including a brief history of its evolution. Based on prior research about social web, it was able to establish its undeniable importance as a viable communicating tool for almost all aspect of social living. Students, research ...

Personally, I strongly believe that the most crucial invention that will alter the outlook of the universe is the internet. Internet can therefore be defined as the universal linkage of individual networks which are controlled by the government, industry, academic institutions and even private individuals. Currently, majority of people have access to the internet and the number is growing bigger as the days are elapsing. Internet has made it practically easy for the access of important information by the ordinary and everyday individuals within the contemporary societies and even across the world as a whole. Therefore this idea of sharing ...

Aspiring musicians have their choice of thousands of music programs across the United States where they could spend four yours and tens of thousands of dollars to position themselves to become a professional musician. Or they could just, learn everything that will be taught in the expensive classroom and learn everything they will get from college online and then use the money saved from college to record an album and market it in an increasingly friendly market to musicians releasing and promoting records without the need for a music education or a record label to sign them. This essay profiles several ...

Our time is the age of information technology, computers, the Internet, bigger and bigger illusions isolated from reality. Every year, people go deeper and deeper into the virtual computer world, forgetting the one that gave life to them. This electronic world for many people has replaced the real a long time ago, as well as virtual communication with the machine began to prevail over the direct human communication. The modern person is less and less in interaction with people and nature, giving it up for the virtual spaces of the computer world. Virtual communication, virtual thinking, virtual nature, virtual world, ...

Introduction

With the technological advancement, the world is shrinking at a fast pace. Everyone seems to be connected with each other over the internet. This is mainly possible due to the advent of the various social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Skype. It is a truth that human being is a social animal, and humans need social interaction for various purposes of survival, existence, and sustenance. Sometimes, communication is a tool necessary not only for quenching the thirst of knowledge, but also for resolving conflicts. Many people believe that frequent interaction with various people across the globe can free them from the ...

How do males & females use Facebook as a platform to initiate flirtatious activity?

Introduction: Social media has become almost the be all and end all regarding interaction and although it has its own purposes as a business tool, it is mostly used for flirtatious activity. In today’s day and age, social media is the next big thing and this has become intrinsically part of our popular culture in many ways. As argued in books such as Reading the Signs, popular culture can be defined in several ways which include the portrayal of adverts in a given commercial and other similar issues. However it is social media which is now gaining ...

Fuad Ahmad Alshami

James Madison University (Study Group) Since the advent of the information age, as we know it today, computers have been a significant part of our lives. The different types of computers include PCs, laptops and hand-held devices, mobile phones and even calculators. Since we make use of computers to assist us, they have reduced human intervention in performing some tasks or eliminated it completely. Just like any other of such development it has both its merits and demerits. This paper examines how computers have affected the way we do things. I attempt to find out the skills that we ...

Social Web, Connecting Us or Compromising our privacy ?

Introduction Social Web is a term used for Internet sites which helps people to interact freely, sharing and discussion about each other. These websites help users to communicate with their social circle by sharing pictures, videos, audio and personal words. In social websites, groups and individuals exchange content to engage in person to person communication. Social media has emerged from the days of IRC and BBS chats to today with facebook, linkedin and a lot more. Social media is still in the process on evolving. Major social networks sites are making changes to improve their websites on almost daily basis, ...

As with most employee privacy issues, this is a simple case of needing to balance the rights of employees with the consequences for the organization. Discuss your arguments using ideas from ethical theories and stakeholders theory. ` Cyberspace has presented a great chance for people to interact and share personal details. The private information that employees make public through online forums or rather social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and numerous internet blogs is utilized by many potential employers, current employers and recruiters seeking further information regarding their employees(Dupree, 2006,P.32). It is worth noting that when individuals ...

Produced by Caitlin McNally and directed by Dretzin and John Maggio, the film, Growing up Online shows a clear difference between the virtual world and the real life of emotions with regard to teenagers and young people. From the film, young people have made the internet part of their social and academic life. The film agrees that the internet is today a way of life and the young IT generation of today are influenced by the internet in many ways. The web shapes how the youth behave, learn, interact and share information. Therefore it becomes a crucial tool for learning. However, virtual ...

With technological advancements happening around the world, should children and teens aged 7-13 be allowed access to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Multiply, among others? According to John Sutter on his CNN report (based on a Microsoft Research and Consumers Reports) "Many kids use [social networking sites]often with their parents' knowledge. A 2011 Consumer Reports survey found 7.5 million people younger than 13 use the site; nearly a third of 11-year olds and more than half of 12-year olds use Facebook with their parents' knowledge (Sutter 2012)." Giving children a chance at using similar sites ...

This paper I will focus on marketing plan as an important tool in the marketing and financial growth of a business entity. I will create and explain various scenarios using two companies; Toyota Corporation and MYSpace.com and Movie John Carter from the Walt Disney Company in order to explain the importance of implementing a marketing plan. The case studies will prove helpful in the analysis of how these companies used their strategies, success or failure in their quest to becoming market leaders in their respective fields of operation.

Global businesses have become more systematically drafted with specific consideration and insight given ...

Abstract

Digital media have influenced the way marketing by providing a range of channels through which potential customers can be reached. In the 21st century, digital media such as social networking sites have significantly influenced marketing by allowing marketers to interact with potential customers unlike in traditional media where companies did not get feedback or reviews on their products. Internet access through mobile phones has increased user activity in the online community, and this has caused marketers to increase advertising through the various websites. New forms of digital media like interactive television are likely to have an immense impact in the ...

Social networking timeline

In 1993, marc Andreessen together with Binna Eric releases the very first version of the mosaic browser. The mosaic browser becomes the first one to display images. This was an amazing discovery and the first image that based banner sold making it the first publication commercially supported (Adler, p. 2002). In 1997, John Barger use the utterance weblog .macromedia release flash 1.0 after future splash. Google.com together with six degrees.com domains established themselves in the same year. In 2002, Friendster.com makes good news after launching the browser. It quickly grows to 3 million users in a span of only ...

Social networking is referred to as grouping of people, mostly those who share common interest, into particular faction. Since time immemorial this grouping of individuals has always been present in schools, work places and other places of social gathering, but today social networking mostly occurs over the net via social media. Social Medias are interned based devices that facilitate easier communication, cooperation, interaction, connection and interrelation of its users. Social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, MySpace, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Blogs and message boards are the most common social media. Another common Social media is Twitter. This is a ...

Black Music

What’s happening? Black Music. 1. (a) Reggae artist, Duane Stephenson

Duane Stephenson is a non-dancehall reggae artist. The reggae sound and beat are not the up-front of the sound; they are the foundation on which his singing voice and his message comfortably perch. His voice is serious even when he sings; he sounds like an old man, probably because he is mature and thoughtful. His fans describe his voice as wise.1

Stephenson’s albums may be too mellow and well, boring to some. His lyrics are strong so he doesn’t let the music overwhelm his message. He ...

Introduction

Over the past decade the nature of the web, internet access, and other internet applications have become increasingly useful in the normal lives of human beings. Kedem argues that “The Internet creates new ways for citizens to communicate, congregate, and share information of a social nature. It is obvious that the Internet has and will continue to change the way we live” (2.math.umd.edu 2). Notable in importance because of their popularity are social networks and social networking sites (SNSs). They are important also due to their effect on daily human activities. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, Blogs, LinkedIn, Wikis, and ...

The Impact of Social Network on Our Life

Over the past decade, the nature of the web, internet access, and other internet applications have become increasingly useful to the normal lives of human beings. Carmela argues that, “the Internet creates new ways for citizens to communicate, congregate, and share information of a social nature. It is obvious that the Internet has and will continue to change the way we live.” Of notable importance is the importance and popularity of social networks and social networking sites (SNSs) on daily human activities. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, Blogs, LinkedIn, Wikis, and Second Life are just but some of the many social ...