Online Identity

Hiding your identiy online is easy. But as its is so easy people can change their name age and appearance all online so you cannot be sure who you are talking to in internet chatrooms. The fact that it is easy for paedophiles to access chatrooms and find innocent victims. By not actually seeing the person you are talking to then people can create a persona of whoever they want to be and who you think you are talking to isn't who they really are.
Revealing alot of personal information about yourself can be dangerous. With internet hackers people can steal your identity or use information about you and use it to their advantage. Now many work companies use social networking sites such as Facebook to find out whether they would be suited for the job or not which makes you wonder if that is wrong and to much of an invasion of someones privacy.

Digital and analogue

Digita media converts data into numbers. The data usually takes form of qualities such as light or sound represented space thats already been coded. Whereas analogue is a process in which physical properties can be stored in physical form.
Using digital word processing software to store notes and text is easier to store and edit than handwritten traditional analogue notes. As changes made to handwritten notes would mean re-writing the whole text which would be time consuming. But using word processing software makes changing and correcting work can be carried out easily with a touch of a key on a keyboard, making it easy and quick to write and edit text.

'New' Media

The 'new' in new media is seen as an exciting and positive foreword way of thinking. Claims and hopes of exciting new development are attached to the word. The enthusiasm of Westernised culture these days focusses in on the constant need of latest piece of media technology is rarely ever questioned or seen as a bad thing. The common idea now is that if something is 'new' then it is always a positive and beneficial to improving our lives. However the consequences are not viewed in a negative way in which buying into these products is beneficial is enfocring globalization.

Effects of New Media on me!

Thinking of new media seems weird to me as to me it is not new to me as I have always grown up with it and can't really imagion my life now without it. It seems I suppose we have become so reliant these days on new media being a key form of communication that we take it or granted. I don't think I could imagion my life without having a mbile phone to contact friends or not having Facebook. But at the same time sometimes I find myself wishing I didn't have either as you cannot get away from everything as people can always contact you and with Facebook people who you don't even talk to can learn everything about you from looking at your profile from your favourite film to your best friend. With the recent invention of phone tracking it makes you wonder are we entering the stage of Big Brother?

New Media.

Having thought of the fact that Goebbel used the radio to promote the poltical views of the Nazi party it seems today that we have so many forms of new media that nowadays radio is overlooked generally. With so many forms of media now and the expansive most people watch television or read the news on the internet now. However at the time with radio being one of the biggest if not the biggest medium of technology it would be the main way in which the public were to find out what was going on in the world. This made it easier to brainwash the masses into thinking the way they wanted them too. This makes me wonder whether this still happens today? With so many forms of technology avaliable are we more susceptible to being brainwashed into ideas?

This is my first post.

Hello,
it feels ALOT earlier this morning than it actually is. I don't really know what to say as I am new to this kind of thing and have never written a blog before and don't really like people reading what I write. I do not feel very well as I was forced to go out last night and realised how stupid I am when I am normally as I was stone cold sober and a night of drinks being spilt on you and being pushed around is really not a fun night at all.

Happy Blogging!