New+Media+Presentation+I+Discussion

The following will form Presentation I for T01 and T02. Look at the presentations and discuss them in the discussion board below. Remember to be careful not to over-write others' comments.

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 * **T01** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Presentation in week 11** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 0606715A || CHENG JIAWEI KENNY || C0G || **Citizen journalism
 * 0702822H || CHEW TEE MING || COB || Privacy Issues in Social Networks
 * 0608318B || SAW YI LING || COG || Elderly and social networks
 * 0701913F || SHARINA BTE SITAL || C0G || New Media and Tech in Education
 * 0701992J || SOH WEI YU || C0B || New Media and its effects on Myanmar
 * 0503861G || VIKNESH GEEVANANTHAM || COG || **New media relationships


 * T01 Discussion Board: Share your views**

About Cheng Jiawei Kenny topic on Citizen journalism : really explains how journalism goes about, from the traditional way of gathering information, writing and reporting news and after which has process of editing and presenting via newspaper or other types of media. In traditional media news has to be accurate, quality and style but for citizen journalism i strongly agree on how reliable are the articles, pictures, information being gather? it could also mean any tom,dick or harry could simply just submit a story and one might think how true and how much can we trust this article being posted. Invasion of privacy is also an issue as well.

By Perry Peh 0705282B

Reffering to Sharina's Topic about New Media and Tech in Education is pretty interesting. i've came to realise how technology has changed over the years. The topic was well divided into 5 parts which is the The evolution of technology (history) ,The impact of technology (new media) in students ,Advantages ,Disadvantages and The Future. I think there are many people out there who dont really know the history of technology and stuffs like that. I strongly agree that we use New media in our daily life in different ways. I also would like to agree that new media make people lazy sometimes because once you are connected to the internet, there is hell load of information to extract, because of these kinda resources people dont really do their work from scratch, all they need to do is just a copy and paste and thats it, work is done. So of cause they become so dependent on technology to do for them everything. Talking in terms of future technology i think more or less people would just go guessing around about the upcoming trends of technology and lifestyle and most of them will just blen into the world Human Technology.

By G.Viknesh 0503861G =)

I would like to agree with Kenny's presentation on citizen journalism, it actually has pros and cons, for the pros; the information posted sometimes can be interesting because we dont see such postings on the papers or in any other form. For the cons the evidence of the postings are not realistics enough, why i am sayiing this because there are people out there trying to be funny at times, they actually can make up the whole unsual story and get it posted. for example have a look at this photo taken where the people posing for the camera. http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=10901

By G.Viknesh 0503861G =)

About Elderly and social network i feel that elderly have their own social network. there are many programs that are set up for them. For exmaple line dancing, karaoke session, morning exercise like taiji. i think that their enjoying themself with the current one. regarding learning new technology, some of the CC already have these programs.

By Li Lieneng 0608449E

Referring to Yi Ling's topic about Elderly and social networks. I feel that elderly has been upgrading themselves on the trends by learning social networking through blogs, facebook and etc. To me, there is always a space for elderly to socialize in a network and elderly will get closer with the youth as they may have the same hobbies and interests to share with.

By Teo Wee Chai 0608280D

Referring to Kenny issues, I feel that citizen journalism is popular more in the trend than traditional journalism because many people can surf them through internet conveniently and is much save time. However the reliability of the article maybe irrelevant to it compared to the traditional journalism article. And many of the article has invaded some privacy issues on couples which is illegal.

By Saw Yi Ling, 0608318B

Looking at Kenny's topic on Citizen Journalism, he has a good introduction on the difference between traditional journalism and citizen journalism. It is very wise of him to bring out the main difference between these 2 types of journalism - the accuracy of information. He stated that in traditional journalism, news are presented in newspaper or other types of media, thus news has to be accurate, quality and style. However, in citizen journalism, it involves the public and therefore lower down the accurancy level of a particular news. He gives a fine example of citizen journalism by using stomp. 3 different points are being mention which I feel that is very relevant to this topic. The 3 points are reliability of articles, irrelevant articles and invasion of privacy articles. By Gabriel Tan, 0607738B

Referring to Yi Ling's issues, i feel that elderly people should have a room in social network. Eldery are like youths, they need to use social networks to communicate with others and broaden their social life. It is good to see that the world is trying to educate the elderly to learn emailing, blogging and using program like msn to let them have a part in social network. It is good to see a increase in the amount of elderly using social network. But i feel that elderly should have a more open mind when it comes to blogging.

By Kenny Cheng 0606715A

Referring to Kenny's issues on the citizen journalism. I feel technology have evolved us lots of thing. Previously only people who are professional journalism allows to publish their story to the newspaper. Now has the new media have grown, everyone can be journalism. It is a good thing for most of us, but if you were to think deeper thought on that. There are many cons that kenny have mention, which is the realibility of the issues, the privacy of people have been exposed. I feel citizen journalism should enforce more stricter rules to prevent many of fake or intimating post

By Lim Kok Chuan 0605505G

Referring to Kenny's issue on Citizen Journalism. What I feel is that citizen journalism to me will never be reliable. Anyone can post their story or news and who knows which can be trusted and which we can't. Basically it's of personal opinion, it depends on the reader to believe or not in the resource provided. Also, I feel that the issue on invading one's privacy is a very undesirable act. I did thought of Kenny's question on what if pictures of me are being posted online, and my answer is that I will feel agitated I think, depending on the matter being brought up. I agree on Kok Chuan's view on Kenny being mentioning on the bad points of citizen journalism. However I hope Kenny can include some good points of citizen journalism such that we can compare on the different views on citizen journalism. This will then allow people to provide more feedback on those points. All in all, I feel that there must be some sort of a rule or agreements in stating that there should not be any privacy issues or insignificant issues for citizen journalism.

By Kevin Chua 0608927J

Regarding to Yi Ling's issues on Elderly and Social Networking. I agree to her view that the elderly should upgrade themselves and allow them to stay in touch with the current technology. This will not only add interest in their life, they can also make more friends by knowing each other online. Through the source of internet, RCs can also organize events and the elderly can simply go online and check if there are any activities going on recently, it will make it more convenient for them. Also agreeing on Yi Ling's point of view, it will be good if the elderly can voice out how they feel in the virtual world, just like how youngsters’ blog and say what hey feel. I think the elderly should also have a chance to say how they feel being in the society. Are they recognized? Or are they invisible to us and more. Maybe by listening to their voices, the government can make changes to the society in allowing the elderly to play an important role in the society.

By Kevin Chua 0608927J

Regarding Yi Ling's issue on "is there room for elderly people in social network", i feel that there is definitely room for elderly people as stated in Yi Ling's post, many countries have already started setting up communities to bring the elderly together and also have start teaching elderly on the various internet tools and that is good as they will be able to communicate with the children or grandchildren as they will have a similar topic to talk about on the net. As well in Singapore, many elderly have already come together to talk, exercise and go out together as well. And they have continue to upgrade themselves by learning more things. If this can continues, the room for elderly will expand and the social network for elderly will definitely be bigger.

By Alaric, 0609146F

After looking at Kenny's blog, i find citizen jounalism has its pros and cons as stated by Kenny is how reliable the post is, invading the privacy of people and stating irrelevent information. But the good part is that anyone is able to write their own post and does not need to go through the traditional way. I agree to Kok Chuan that they should enforce stricter rules on writing a post. But on the other hand, for traditional journalism, there is also rumours going on it between celebrities and on other stuffs and are we also able to trust the reliability of it? Celebrities photos being taken in public has also invaded their privacy, so in a way the are both the same just that citizen jounalism is easier to get the post read by readers.

By Alaric, 0609146F

Regarding on Yi Ling's issues, it is right that the eldery should start pick up on using the internet. i feel there is a small percentage of user who are eldery use the internet is because of finding it odd to pick up these. When internet atart to popular, these eldery are in their 50s. They never thought of picking up as they feel these are for teenagers. Imagine asking them having to learn to navigate round the internet as ease as we do. Thus these eldery should not have all these negative thoughts on them and start picking up to learn. She also mention that some of the eldery do blog. Is interesting to find out what the blog are. It woud be great if she provides some link to their blog as i would really like to view their blog after all the while, i am looking on the teenagers blog. Manybe there is a different kinds of topis they are talking about

By Lim Kok Chuan 0605505G

After watching Viknesh's youtube video, i agree with the interview that new media has both pros and cons towards new media, new media can affect a person such as the status of the Friendster account, a comment. But new media has allow more people to connect to each other and making friends but there is a risk to the people you make friends with. As what Viknesh's friend has said, new media is a smokescreen to people where they are able to hide their identity and post things on the net without other people know who is it.

By Alaric, 0609146F

Regarding on Chew Tee Ming issues on privacy issues in social network. He is right that no matter how the company has said that their website are privacy friendly and are safe to use. There are always major doubts in these. In internet world there are so many loopholes that can be expliot the content easily. Is important for user of those friendster or facebook to know the guides to have privacy on them.I bet when user would to register on friendster or facebook, there would be a wordy on terms and condition. It would have they would not upholad any loss of privacy from you. But did anyone of us read these when signing up?

By Lim Kok Chuan 0605505G

As for SHARINA BTE SITAL blog. She has emphasis well and categorize her points on her blog well. It make user easily for me to read.She is right on the disadvantage on having new media on the impact on us. Especially on the copyright issues, last time where there is no new media. The copyright issues dose not seem to be really what people are concerning about. As new media grows, ,everyone can achieve their information easily using the search engine. With a copy and paste command in every computer make everyone copying the content. Thus copyright infridgement have done.

By Lim Kok Chuan 0605505G

As for SOH WEI YU post. It was a surprise at what mynamaar people thoughts on new media. It seem they do not really welcome the idea of new media. People actually protested of these for the government for not welcoming the new media.Why are the governement trying to block people from accessing foreign websites? I would not be really sastisfied on what they have done if i am those people.

By Lim Kok Chuan 0605505G

As for Viknesh's youtube video. He use video to bring across the message in which is a good way.Because i do remember some of the points that his friends have mention. People do give false information on the internet that hides its true identity. You can have more friends by friendster but are these friends "friends"? or just add number to the number of friends you have. Sometimes people friendster accounts have 1000 friends? Are they friends?

By Lim Kok Chuan 0605505G

Regarding Tee Ming’s blog, I would really agree that there is no privacy of personal information available on the net – unless you are very careful about not putting any information out there which you do not want others to know.

For instance, I will never put my e-mail address or real name publicly on the net as I do not want more spam, or unwanted attention from others. I also do not put my handphone number on the internet to prevent my number from being ‘spammed’ by commercial advertising. I have heard that there are people and companies selling large chunk of personal information off the net for money. Even though it may not be ethical, this is certainly what is happening out there and therefore we should make effort to protect our own information from being ‘sold’.

By Soh Wei Yu, 0701992J

Refeering to Sharina's blog. I like the way she had divided the issue into 5 different parts where by she gave a brief intro of the history plus advantages and disadvantages. Regarding this issue of new media to education, i think it has really help the students now. During my secondary time, much of the new media wasnt much intro to the school, Things like notes have to be given by teachers. To now you may see, even primary school student have to go online to do their homework given by their teachers. Not to mention student like us, has to print our own notes online before going for any classes. Some disadvantages would be like copyright or invaild information given online. But i still agreed new media has really helped our learning alot. Refeering to kenny's blog on citizen Journalism, he did explained to us the different about traditional and the citizen journalism. After reading the whole issue, i do agreed with what he mentioned at the last point. Its the privacy that we all have. You would never know who will you taking your picture and posting it online for any news issues. Refeering to wei yu issue on new media and its effects on Myanmar. After reading the issue, i think the government shouldnt have block people from using Internet services in their country. Is new media the issue affecting the democracy in the country? Even if they have blocked people from using the Internet, the issue in their country are still there. People still have their ways of reaching out to new media and to share their views to other about it. By Cho Tze Wee, Ryan 0608188I

Regarding Lim Kok Chuan's reply to my blog post, I certainly agree that the government's suppression is part of the growing discontent of the people over the oppressive ruling. Because their government is a non-democratic system (as a matter of fact they brutally suppressed the opposition in the past killing thousands of protestors, even though the opposition won the elections by a landslide victory) and does not tolerate open discussion of their own rule, as well as to prevent the truths of their own atrocities from being published to the world, they banned those new media to protect its own interest and survival. However censoring out their rights to speak is not going to deter them from continuing to bring their message out through the powerful new media. I think it is much better that the government learn to catch up with the times, live with it in acceptance, realise that censoring and suppression is no longer useful, and speed up the process to democracy to solve the problems of the country. There is no way we can deny the emergence of new media and its abilities to provide uncensored information to the masses.

By Soh Wei Yu, 0701992J

After reading Tee Ming discussion on Privacy Issues in Social Network, I believed that I have fully understand and have begin taking the necessary steps to prevent and safe-guard myself from getting into privacy problems. Tee Ming has stated valuable solutions to the problems including a video as a guide to facebook user that is very useful to user like me. I really agree with him that in this digital media society that we live in, there is no more privacy for social networking people. Even with the precautions steps taken with the help of law enforcement, somehow predators are able to hack into our private lives. There is just so much that we can do.

By Sharina, 0701913F

Referring to Vikinesh video presentation, I think using a video is actually a good to communicate. I agree to the points that his friend mention, people hide their identity when they do not want you to know who they are. I feel that when someone tries to hide their identity will make you feel that they are up to no good. I agree with kok chuan that does those people whose friendster have 1000 friends but do they really know each other?

By Kenny Cheng, 0606715A

Referring to SOH WEI YU’s blog, it is sad to see that Myanmar government restrict the new media in their country. And I believe that this causes mistrust between the citizens and the government. But in this case in Myanmar, I feel that freedom on speech on the internet is too restricted shocking to see that bloggers will be arrested.

By Kenny Cheng, 0606715A

Referring to Kenny's Citizen Journalism, I'm contented that I get an insight to citizen journalism. I mean, it is definitely good if citizens actually update us with important issues/news. But, I think they should be given a right to write only about facts and not fiction. As for STOMP, I think it is time for them to have a management team to maintain news from the citizens. And I have to agree that if they took photos of couples, those pictures should not be displayed straight away because I do believe it is an invasion of privacy. I think news from citizens need to be filtered out to prevent the misuse of citizen journalism.
 * By Seri, 0608089I**

Regarding Sharina's New Media and Tech in Education, I think that she has given a good overall information on the issue. Indeed, I have to agree that I myself, as a student, am relying on technology to do most of my school work especially since I'm in the IT field. I wonder what will happen if there are no more technology in the future. And I almost can't imagine what other innovations or inventions will be created in the near future. But, I think New Media and technology will be of great use to us students if mishaps happen for example like SARS, where it affects most of us. In this aspect, I'm glad we have the New Media. However, as stated by Sharina, will virtual reality be the main thing now? Will it replace REALITY?

Because what I've heard from my tutor was that he do have heard of people actually fighting for a piece of land in SecondLife and paying lots of money for it. Rumours have it that Temasek Polytechnic is also building their own building there on their own piece of land. [It's not a rumour. IIT is building a TP campus in Second Life - newmediascapes] Again, the issue arises here. This is to tackle future mishaps like SARS but then again, is it worth the money and time?
 * By Seri, 0608089I**

Regarding Tee Ming's Privacy Issues in Social Networks, it is definitely important to make sure that one's personal information is secured from danger. When this is not so, eventually it will result in very very bad consequences. Yes, it doesnt mean that such websites should be avoided, but one must be careful whenever he or she uses them. And i think he had a very good point in explaining how to solve such problems and had emphasized well on the outcomes. Furthermore, online fraudsters had been on the rise recently. By Wei Yi, 0704541B

Based on Viknesh's video on new media relationships, I have to agree that new media has helped us to communicate more with one another because as compared to in reality, it might be harder to start conversations. What's more, for example in Friendster, you can find out other people's interests and use this knowledge to communicate. I myself find this helpful for the development of my own social circle.

Despite that, New Media might not be good for BGR though because lots of conflicts may arise as mentioned by Viknesh's friend who was nice to share his past experiences.
 * By Seri, 0608089I**

I have to agree with Yi Ling's Elderly and social networks findings. I think that if the elderly can get adjusted to New Media, they will have more things to do. It somesort helps them to have interests in life, some things to look forward to. I think it is healthy because they can keep up with the times as well as keep in touch with family members as well as old friends. They will then also have another common topic to talk to the youngsters.
 * By Seri, 0608089I**

I agree with vik's video too new media allow people that are more introvert to communicate better and make lots of new friends. At the same time it is sad to see couple not trusting one another and using it to spy on each other. By posting private presonal information on friendster they are actually exposing their weakness to others, stranger with ulterior motive can make use of these informations to get near you and who knows what bad things happen next when you let down your guard.

By Zhi Kai, 0502927G


 * Good job on the presentations, folks! I have enjoyed reading/viewing the presentations. I have also enjoyed reading the comments and discussions. There have been some very perceptive views shared. Keep up the good work!**

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 * **T02** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Presentation in week 11** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 0703153G || AARON A. LIM QING RONG || C0B || New media past and present
 * 0608151G || CHUNG GIN YAN || COI || Online etiquette
 * 0405453B || HUIN MUN HO IVES SYLVESTER || C0B || **Online predators
 * 0701021H || KOW JIANLIN || COB || Social networking sites: cons
 * 0704798H || TAN SU PING || C0B || Blogging Pros and Cons
 * 0703229E || TIANG HUI FA CHARLES || COG || New Media and its impact on politics

T02 Discussion Board: Share your views

I am referring to Sylvester's blog on online predation. I cannot agree more with his views on online predation. As a WoW player myself, I do not sympathize with such behaviour online or offline. Everytime I see that obligatory "in between your mom's..." sentence I cannot help but feel disgusted. I myself have never said anything like that in-game and I strongly discourage any players from doing the same, as it is not only offensive but also disrespectful towards mothers in general. I also agree with what he says about how predators enjoy the anonymity the internet brings. It gives them extreme confidence because their victims will be unable to seek help from the police, as they cannot identify the culprit. I can only hope that new laws can be put in place and new methods can be introduced to track down and put these malicious parasites in prison, wherever they are in the world. By Ken Lam 0606601C

Referring to JianLin's issue on social networking sites, as JianLin mentions that most schools in America from elementary to high schools have blocked facebook and myspace in their computers to prevent students from abusing their access and to make them concentrate in class, I felt that these measures can also implemented in all schools in Singapore so the students can also concentrate on their studies too. By Tang Ziwei 0701321B

Looking at jianLin's article: Many tertiary schools have already adopted facebook as a way to make students more interested in their studies by hosting discussion boards and interest groups on facebook. Sinagpore schools need not take extreme measures but perhaps limit the student's activity in facebook. This is something maybe secondary and primary schools in singapore should consider as facebook as an alternative in teaching and informing students about coming events in the school. By Yeo Amos 0701442F

Syl - I refer to the article on [|http://netiquette4everyone.wordpress.com] To play the Devil's advocate: Flame wars and, more commonly, trolling may not be all that undesirable. It may be unpleasant to be on the receiving end of said internet phenomenon but let's not forget there are those (the victim in this case) that enjoy rising up to the challenge of such belligerence, or those who would enjoy nothing more than the sheer entertainment value of pugnacious (sometimes arbitrarily) forum trolls, their antics and the vitriol exchanged in forum flame wars. Not all forums accept such behavior of course; there's a time and place for everything. To dismiss such negligence in etiquette to be an anathema may be a tad myopic, however, for it is said that there is honor even amongst thieves - the intricate ability of trolling to bring forth entertainment can be said to be a form of art and there are numerous trolls who are appreciated in their respective communities for what they do.

Regarding the entry written by Syl, i agree that we have to be responsible when using the net. Publicising pictures and personal infomation about oneself can be dangerous. In the case of the basketball coach that lured the 14 year old girl out into meeting, it is obvious that the net user - in this case, the teen - can avoid the consequences that may happen. I would say that the basketball coach isn't entirely at fault since the teen had a choice to meet a stranger or not. This shows that online predators can be wiped out, no matter how many ways there are for them to search for a victim. Net users should be wary of their every move on the net and avoid making fast friends with strangers. That would make the cyber world a much safer place. - Zuraiin 0701990D

Syl - The coach was apprehended in the end, but he did make sexual advances on the teenage girl which could, potentially, scar her physically and mentally for life. Ergo it would be near impossible to prevent sure future occurrences unless you have technology as depicted in the film 'Minority Report', but that's another can of worms.

Referring to http://netiquette4everyone.wordpress.com/: I think people tend to be much more open about their opinions online, such as in Forums, because they are anonymous and nobody can judge them on any other factor besides the way they type and reply to threads. Hence, they have no fear of sounding rude or boisterous because even if their comments do not sit well with others, there is nothing they can do about it except reply to them and thus starting a possible flame war. However, these people are also very confident of 'winning' a flame war thanks to their grasp of the English language. They are probably very experienced 'flamers' and they do take very much pride in that fact. Most of them forget how to interact with acceptable behavior in the process. I think netiquette is very important because you have to keep in mind not everyone online disagrees with you with the aim of starting a flame war. Answering or replying every post with sarcasm all the time is also not a very fun thing to be on the receiving end of. - Alicia 0606053G

Regarding the entry by Su Ping, about the pros and cons of blogging. I agree that blogs do have their advantages and also their disadvantages. I also agree to one of the points that bloggers can express their views in their own personal way. Even from this SIWM assignment, many are using a blog to present their views on the current trends and issues of new media, they are expressing their honest thoughts on how new media has benefitted us. Another point I also agree is that a blog requires constant updating, therefore, a blogger has to be consistent in his/her blogging. If not they will lose their readers which is an extremely unpleasant thing for bloggers. -Charles 0703229E

Regarding about the video that Alex had done, i find that there can be more contents on old media and the last part about the channel 8 show is kinda too long. But overall he still let people have an idea on what new media is about. Great job on the video.

About Gin Yan's post, I din know that there's actually so many netiquettes! At least now i know what to take note of when I'm online(:

Syl's post mentioned about YTMNDs. May i know if is there any long term for it and also give some background information about it? It's so scary to know that YTMNDs would actually feature Haley's photos. They are using her photos without permission. Can she sue them? Tan Su Ping, 0704798H

For the video by Alex, i think there should be more examples of old media like the radio broadcasting and newspaper. But overall it is an interesting video especially the first part. Chew Tee Ming, 0702822H

Syl - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytmnd I highly doubt that it would be against the law to possess another person's photograph when he or she uploaded it on his/her own accord. I believe that the YTMND which I linked was a compilation of her photos that were taken from her webcam and subsequently put on MySpace or sent to another party. Interestingly though, Haley's father actually wrote a letter to DZK, composer of some of the sexually explicit songs about Haley, threatening to take legal action, citing sexual harassment (if my memory serves). If you were to go to YTMND's wiki page @ http://wiki.ytmnd.com/Main_Page and search for Haley, you should be able to view the lyrics of one such song, but be warned that it is, after all, sexually explicit. From YTMND's wiki:
 * On March 30, 2006, DZK, the creator of the 2 Haley songs, posted an email he received from max, describing complaints written by Haley's father. This site led to the rebirth of the fad as many of the original Haley sites have shown up in the top 15.
 * On March 31, DZK removed the email ytmnd as well as his 2 songs on Haley from the site.

//With reference to the post by Charles, I feel that politicians or rather, significant figures are using New Media as another form of reaching out to the mass. I am heartened to hear that politicians are sharing their views more openly. However I feel that if they want to eg. write a blog, they would only write the good stuffs that are happening but not the ugly side of them. Hence more people will be easily influenced by their thoughts and if this politician is bad, just imagine how many people will be brainwashed by him/ her.//

Aaron Alexander Lim, T02

Regarding the post by Charles, i personally feel that the political world is a very grey zone. There is no definite good or definite bad. Like what Alex have said, new media might be just a propaganda tool for these significant figures to present the beautiful side of their. So when we really access to these types of new media, always keep in mind that it all just politics. Also we should check if these blogs and stuff really belong to that person and not some impostor trying to make use of the fame of these significant figures.

-Gin.Yan-

Regarding the post by Kow Jianlin: I agree with the fact that your myspace, friendster, facebook social networking sites are running wild, and becoming something of a real addiction to certain people nowadays. I personally feel that it's okay to log in, have some social fun, check out your friends profiles as part of your online social life. But carrying it to an addiction is a little too much and we must also remember not to disclose sensitive information about ourselves; in way, the truth about your personal information could only be stretched to a certain extent.

Regarding the post by Charles: Its pretty interesting and i'm looking forward to the day where new media will be integrated into our presidential elections. I also personally feel that since most people know more than a thing or two about computers and its technology(especially teenagers), using new media as a form of a propaganda tool or something will only appeal and serve as a good way of interaction to the young and modern public, and also enable everyone to keep up with the times.


 * By Benjamin Tey Wei Hsien, 0505214G**

Wow very impressive post by Su Ping,i really take my hat off to her as the post is really well written as i had heard from her that she don't really have the habit to blog.Well i agree to the pros and cons specially the second pro which is using the blog to update your friends about how and what you are currently doing while you are leading a busy life in school,like all friends,i'm also quite concern about how are my friend's are doing and would be able to know if something have happen to them and had affected them physically or mentally and would be able to comfort them as sometimes there would be stuffs that they would not be willing to tell others on the phone or even face to face.The third pro,should have a warning behind it as sometimes expressing yourself on the web is not a good thing as me myself have a friend with such bad experience where he was unhappy with a classmate being rude to the teacher.The classmate in the end went to print out the post as an evidence and confronted my friend in the boy's toilet where i myself was there to witness to prevent anything to happen.That's why it's better to "fliter" your post before posting up on the net.

By Kelvin,0704991i

I think Aaron did a pretty decent job on creating a video comparing the stages of new media in the past and present, there were examples of different types of new media shown. However, like what I stated in my comment on his Youtube video page, I thought that were were too few examples of "old media".

GIn Yan's blog post about netiquette is pretty informative, with a neat list of basic guidelines at the top of the post. Although he doesn't explain in detail why each of the points in the guideline is important, i think he gives good reasons to practice netiquette. If only everyone that use the internet would adhere to these guidelines, the internet would be a more peaceful place, although some might argue that it would restrict "freedom of expression".

Online predators, as stated in Sylvester's blog post are indeed very real and scary. I find it interesting as he explains with some of his experience in online gaming how easily it is for sexual predators to prey on other people on the internet. I too find that there are alot of sexual predators lurking around on the internet, and have seen some of them in action on IRC, and other forms of online chat, where they first hide behind anonymity before making their move.

I find that Jianlin's blog post is pretty straight to the point, stating 3 cons to social networking sites, mainly on the security of the user's identity and information. I know its quite popular, but I've never really used social networking sites much, so it is an eye-opener to me to see that there are people addicted to using them. Also, I agree that anonymity on the internet is also a problem in this area. Like in Sylvester's blog post, sexual predators usually lurk around sites such as these and masquerade as someone else to prey on their targets.

Another straightforward blog post, I feel that Su Ping's description of the pros and cons of blogs is pretty accurate (at least in my opinion), as I was once a regular blogger afew years back. Although I think that this post places emphasis on personal blogs (about the person's daily life), rather than other topic-related blogs such as food blogs or political blogs, etc. I think that there is now an option to restrict readers to read your blog on blogger or other blogging sites, so it would be easier to control who is able to read your posts.

Charles' post also got me interested. I find it pretty good news that politicians are stepping up to embrace new media as a viable form of publicity and communication. If this is sucessful, it would be easier for the governments and politicians around the world to communicate and link with their people, since new media is already so prevalent in our daily lives.

- Raphael Tan, T02

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Refering to AARON A. LIM QING RONG on New media past and present

It is a great video, clearly shows the difference between New Media in the past and in the present. In the past, it is really a hard time to make problems known to the world. Usually, problems faced within the village are only known to them. Outside of it, no one knows their hardships, and sometimes when help is needed, there is no one to turn to.

With the new media now, charity work could be easily carried out. Problems could be made known to people through serveral media, like newspapers, television shows or even through the internet.

The ending of the video produced by AAron is the use of a mediacorp show, whereby unfortunately I am unable to get the meaning out of that.

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Refering to TIANG HUI FA CHARLES on New Media and its impact on politics

It is a surprise to me, a minister actually has a blog! New media is definitely beneficial, even the government is using them. In addition, it is a good thing to mention both sides of New media; advantages and disadvantages of using them.

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Refering to CHUNG GIN YAN on online etiquette I believe online etiquette is defintely nice if everyone or rather at least most of the people carried them out. I have been to serveral forums which are embedded with rules which actually focues on online etiquette. It is pretty nice to see those rules, as it helps in keeping a good mood while reading them.

Chew Kia Liang 0605794G Refering to HUIN MUN HO IVES SYLVESTER on online predators Predators are everywhere, and its a good thing to carry out some prevention. I agree that since we could not get rid of them, we can only prevent it. Betweeen, your English is great, at times I kind of figuring out what are you talking about.. So, what do u do to get those English?

Chew Kia Liang 0605794G Refering to KOW JIANLIN on Social networking sites: cons It is sad to say that Internet actually makes people discover more Black Sheeps. Whatever you are doing, uploading pictures, playing online games, chats, etc. Black Sheeps are everywhere, and the problem is I beleive some of them do not take it as a problem, but maybe 'fun'.

Chew Kia Liang 0605794G Refering to TAN SU PING on Blogging Pros and Cons Personally, I seldom or NEVER read people's blogs. I believe one has his own piracy, and soem people actually posts their 'diary for almost everyday' online, and I don't find them iteresting at all in knowing another party life. Of course, some blogs actually has some interestin topics, maybe discussion on the types of parties held, or chat about favorite movies or even plus reviews. Everything is like a coin, has both sides. A blog is defintely a good place to enchance friendship, knowing your friends better, and of course, get to know other people more. Disdavantages again mention black sheeps, which I agree, Internet is full of BLACK SHEEPS.

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In regards to the video link by Aaron, that is a well-made piece showcasing new media and old media. However, some parts, like the Mediacorp Channel 8 show at the end, do not really link much to the subject of New Media. Perhaps the maker of the video could shed some insight on this?

The Netiquette article by Chung Gin Yan really does convey how vitriolic people are on the net. In fact, I've recently gotten flamed several times for a rather absurd reason - not staying on the thread topic even after apologising. The netiquette guidelines and the reasons, etc, are almost spot-on with my own views. I chuckled at the 'Parents' reason.

Regarding Sylvester's article on Online Predators... uh... yeah. Personally I think you're laying on the vocabulary a bit thick there, but that's just me. Though the message that you're conveying is indeed serious. Although the internet is very, very useful for a lot of things, for other things, it's also very much, to quote a certain musical, 'a hole in the world with a great black pit, and it's filled with people who are filled with s--t, and the vermin of the world inhabit it'. At least, some parts of the 'net is like such. People generally reveal their darker sides as they draw their anonymity veil about them - I bet most people wouldn't indulge in those things if it were publicly known. All we can do is educate, educate, educate. I mean, I wouldn't let my own son or daughter be left alone on the 'net without giving her a crash course in 'Pedo-bear is not your friend, and his friends aren't either' 101.

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As new media has been increasingly popular nowadays, Gin yan’s blog has good relevance. I think that netiquette is important as we do not know who we are speaking to, or even their character. Using harsh words would hurt people, and to critique their work, it is important that we have a basic understanding of what they are doing first. The blog has a good scope, however, its wordy, making it hard to read. Good job though. Online predators are indeed dangerous. The links and stories found in the blog is engaging as it relates to us teens. I think that relationships of any kind would not work out in the internet and it is of no benefit to have an online relationship. Why have fake friends when you can have a real ones? su pings issue brought out the negative aspects of blogging, one which not many have thought of. i think that blogging is both negative and positive. her points brought up is good and also covers a good scope of blogging. i know that blogging can also cause depression. people usually blog about negative incidents that happened and evoke negative feelings in their blogs. reading it again would only remind them of their unhappiness.. i hope this info is useful! good blogging! the links provide very good examples. personally, i think that blogs are just spaces in which people view to know more about that person, or just view it because it is interesting. charles's blog is divided into small paragraphs, making it easy to read. i did not know that new media had an impact on politics so the information at his blog was eye opening and also provide me with the adequate knowledge about new media and its effect on politics. he also provided a world wide scope instead of narrowing it down to just singapore alone. that shows how new media is becoming more widespread. i am also pleased to find out that a minister had a blog. this shows how new media is really playing its role in politics, or rather in the parliament. good job! (:
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Emily 0702056C SuPing's blog create awareness for those who are currently using blogger, allowing people to know what they can look out for (hacekrs etc). I think SuPing's blog is beneficial for hesitants who are on the verge of creating a blog, also is beneficial to those who overlooked the adventages of blogging. Personally, i feel that blogging is one superb way to bring across one's perspective/mindset to others. Viewers could leave a comment about what they think and there might be some arguements or sort, but i believe if it's all about persuading and speaking out one's mind. :) I believe the disadvantages outweighed the advantages. Another thing i like about blogging, is that misplacing it, would be near impossible, and you never run out of pages(first point in SuPing's blog). Looking at your past posts with just a click, it never can be easier. :) Another good thing, you can make blog itself private, restricting it to only for people you know.

I didnt know what Netiquette was until i read GinYan's blog thus it definitely benifit me, allowing me to know more about NewMedia. :) The few Netiquette rules given in her blog, is very useful as many tends to abuse the fact that displaying anonymous is possible. However, consequences should be well thought about before exerting such moves as it may evoked one's feelings(inferior or pissed). The next thing you see, an exchange of vulgarities would then be flooding the comments section. Imagine the new media world with misunderstandings thus resulting in an arguement, or hurtful words left by anonymous thus resulting in confrontation. An undesired hostile environment nobody would like be in. So practice netiquette everyone! :):):)

I truly agree with Charles about how big an advantage it has been for the election candidates when they inficted the use of NewMedia, helping them gain votes and supports. I believe both old media and new media has it's own advantages. People now, in the 21st century are highly exposed to the use of Internet, thus using new media to give information in any political wise, would definitely bring across it's point of view. There would be comments from the public, thats for sure, and i think it's good in a way. Because government then would be able to see the publics' point of view be it opposing or assisting. It could be taken into consideration, and government would be able to carry out other steps from there on. I've derived this one major advantage new media has over the old media after reading Charles post! :):):)

In regards to Aaron’s presentation, the effort that was put in to share with others on the difference of the new media past and present should be applaud. He tried to share the issue with the use of new media itself having YouTube as a viewing platform for all, thus draws a lot of my attention. And with the video, he managed to get the message across to the class. However, adding captions when showing the examples on new media would have made the video more interesting and more educational for the public’s educational purposes. And maybe, by explaining a bit of what new media is about, it would have been better. By adding captions, the new media “virgins” out there who are tempted to know more, and want to understand the new media better, will tend to “de-virginized(if there is such a word)” themselves by going to the site. By going to the sites, they will understand the issue better. Okay, maybe not it will help the new media “virgins” but it will also be a great help to confuse people like me. I got confuse at first about the issue “the new media past and present”. I thought “new media past” was actually referring to “traditional media”. But after looking at the video, I understood better. And in class yesterday, I actually asked Mrs Low if television is considered as traditional media. Now I think I know the difference between new media past and traditional media. So can I know from the floor just what a traditional media is? Do they consist of posters, newspapers only? And correct me if I’m wrong, television is an old form of new media, and it is not a traditional media. And so, radio also falls under the same category as the television? The post on new media etiquette was an interesting one. This is because having using the internet for years like the others do, I didn’t know that online etiquette exists and that is actually important in the cyber world. And the example given was just awesome. I’ll practice it for sure. Practice applying the etiquette that is. Don’t stop posting on the topic, because it will make it BIG for sure! And then one day, you can make a video out of it! Ohmygod the kitten is so cute. Okay, snapping back to reality, I didn’t realize that the internet is so scary. In regards to Sylvester’s presentation, the examples given were helpful - it adds on to my list of “how to keep myself protected” on the internet. Below is just something that I got from a video when was researching for my own presentation. “This way, all the social networks can still co-exist with Google and their socialstream but they will be so much smaller, they’ll be dependent and that’s how they’ll co-exists. It will really shake everything up. Just think of the potential, I don’t know about social search but personalized search, these people will even have more info on you, forget about what they knew in your gmail and search history. They know about what you like, what you talking about and what you’re doing, and facebook, might just get outdone that way.” – //Will Google Pirate Facebook, Metacafe// People should be more afraid of the internet than ghosts. Take precautions. In regards to [|www.thedarksidex.blogspot.com], people say, “Don’t judge a Facebook.” But for me, no matter what they say, I still do judge people by what they put on their accounts if I don’t know the person. And applies to all the networking sites out there. And I wonder, what happens when a potential boss checks me out on Facebook?

"1 in 5 employers find information about candidates on the web & 59% say it influences their decision." From now on, I want to limit what I wrote about my private life on the internet. Maybe I should just stop writing one. And there is even a website http://www.viadeo.com/netrep that can actually helps you clean up your internet reputation. Hmm. -shikin, 0607591E

Regarding Su Pings Blog on the pros and cons of blog, I am very pleased to see the number of pros and cons she came out with, that too with quite a number of details. However as she said, most people look for pictures in blogs, maybe she could have done something about that. About Alex's blog, the video about old media and new media was very interesting and funny too. However i wasn't actually pleased when the part of the channel 8 show came as i didnt really understand what was the meaning behind showing that. The beginning of the video was funny though. Tee Mings blog(TO1), was rather something that i was going to talk about soon in my own blog. I very well agree that personal infromation should never be given out on the net.

Sorry for the super super duper late reply/post. -Jaideep Nathani, 0704143G

Good job on the presentations, folks! I have enjoyed reading/viewing the presentations. I have also enjoyed reading the comments and discussions. There have been some very perceptive views shared. The comments show real engagement with the presentations and the issues. Keep up the good work!