CIS 3810 Lanka Vidanapathirana

A twitter discussion compares to a blackboard discussion, in the way of post and replies. In blackboard you can create a post, with as many characters as you'd like and other blackboard students are able to reply to your tweet. This is similar to twitter's tweet and comment feature, where a tweet is created and other users of twitter are able to comment on the original tweet. Both platforms are similar to an in-class discussion because the person that is usually in the front usually the professor, who poses questions and statements about a subject. Students raise their hands to comment on what the professor says, which relates to the post and comment idea. When a student raises a new idea or question, it is like starting a new thread in blackboard because it is a post with a different idea. Other students and the professor can comment on the student's statement, which then again relates to the comment features of Blackboard and Twitter.

Blog social networking can be used to speak out to large media companies to fix any mistakes that harms it's users. For example, the case of Amazon saying an error removed it's  Gay and Lesbian book  listings which caused thousands of  sellers to lose their sales rank and sales, harmed many book sellers' selling privilege on amazon. The publishers of the books used blogs to reach Amazon's attention, " In a blog post late Monday, Mr. Seymour wrote that Amazon’s statement was a start, but not sufficient. “It does not explain why writers, like myself, were told by Amazon reps that our books were being classified as ‘adult products.’ ” ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14amazon.html . Of the many blog posts similar to this one, the author's were able to get a response from Amazon stating that it was a system glitch and will implement new measures to avoid accidents like this one.  Another idea that blog social networking can be used is w...

Both blogs and wikis are used to share information to an audience via the internet. This information can include videos, articles, and images. A blog is a bit more personal, since the blog creator is the one who gets to post information and other users can only comment on a blog. A blog creator can create his/her blog with their own preference in regards, to design, accessibility, and content. Specifically, bloggers link to other blog posts, documents, and articles, in a reverse chronological format. Blogs can be used for collaboration by sharing each other's points of views through the blogger and guest blogger who writes a comment. This also allows for the blogger to go through the commentator's blog and write comments, thus creating a collaborative connection. Whereas a Wiki, is more of a collaborative platform, since multiple users can add, edit, and change content. For example, " Wikis, by contrast, ar e collaborative only i n retrospect someone has to be prepared ...

Rules and regulations are different across each country; the same applies to media policy and regulations. I find it interesting to see how media policy is regulated in other countries, especially the internet being one of the largest media providers. Even though the internet may be used for media in every country, there are media policies and regulations that formulates the differences in media content in each country.  Some may say, that here in the U.S we have great media rights due to the first amendment (freedom of speech/press), but others may say that the first amendment is not fully enforced which restricts the content of media. I will go over, the similarities and differences of media policy and regulation in other countries and how that shapes the content that is produced. Not only does media policy and regulations affect media information, but this also affects the way people in other countries receive information. In a sense, the government's regulations and media polic...