New Media! - Allysia Sulaiman

Twitter discussions, Blackboard discussions and an in-class discussions are all forms of communication, but in different ways. Blackboard discussions are more formal than those on Twitter. On Blackboard, you typically address who you are speaking with in a format of a professional email. On Twitter, you just type up your comment and tweet it. You also get notified when someone replies or retweets your tweet unlike Blackboard where you have to constantly check if someone responded to you. Twitter discussions can also include people who aren’t in your specified class. In-class discussions and Twitter discussions show how the advancements in technology and all these new media websites change the way we communicate with our peers. It is sort of like new school vs. old school. Today, you do not have to be in the same room to have a meaningful discussion, it can all be done online. In the end, all of these discussion ways are a great way to communicate with your peers. ...

The popularity of many of these  social networking sites  started to pick up as I was entering high school. My parents did not grow up with electricity let alone technology for social media, so they did not know what to make of this. Due to their uncertainty about these sites, I never really used them. I made a Facebook in high school for a school program and literally made a Twitter last week for this class. That’s all of the bigger social media accounts that I have. However, there are a few more applications that I have been using in the recent years. I made a  Facebook  account senior year of high school to join the graduating class group to know about all the upcoming events. Ever since then I just use it to read articles on the news, watch videos that are of interest to me and to see what some of my friends post about. I never post anything myself. For me, this site is either seeing some breaking news or seeing what my Aunties are doing. I’ve also reali...