About My Project

The topic of my presentation is "Social Networking: Is it better or worse than the real thing?," which primarily focuses on the pros and cons that social networking is known for. For the most part, I focused on the criticisms and the dangers of social networks such as Facebook and Myspace, because that is what I was leaning towards for the conclusion. I had examples, such as the youtube video, where a teenage girl had undergone sexual intercourse with a 30 year old man who had already been imprisoned for raping 8-9 year old prior to this Myspace incident. I also talked about the case known as the Sandler v. Calcagni, which I also contributed in my wiki page. I have concluded the entire presentation by finishing with a statement that face-to-face interaction is much better than interacting online since people can pretend they're someone else in the web and also, there's not much experience into connecting with others online. With real interaction comes experience and it indeed makes it more personal, which establishes a stronger connection with others. Plus, interacting with others face to face allows an individual to prevent from communicating with strangers with bad motives and prevent harmful situations from occurring.

About Someone Else's Term Project

Michael Rand's term project presentation about how Web 2.0 has peeved its way to politics and made it possible to be beneficial for the government. The best example of this is Obama's use of new media and help him become our current president. Due to the use of several Web 2.0 utilities to promote himself, Obama comes out of nowhere and reached the top two to compete for the title of presidency. Before an underdog, and now a very phenomenal leader just because of his use of new media, which made such a huge impact on his campaign for presidency.

During the presentation, Rand did not only use a ppt file but also showed the class certain sites, where we can find more information about his topic if interested. He also involved the class to a sort of discussion/debate about the pros and cons of new media in politics by dividing the class into half and handing them out articles to read in order to set up the discussing between everybody. It definitely helped put together his presentation and made everyone understand what he is trying to impart to us.

What also struck me during his presentation was that new media has been used in Iran before Obama made use of it in his campaign for presidency. In Iran, Web 2.0 is considered somewhat of an empowerment tool that individualizes the people and help them feel a sense of community with their contributions with the use of new media and also have made Web 2.0 more personal and transparent. I thought that was pretty interesting since Iran is underdeveloped compared to the States. That was indeed a counter-intuitive, but still a fun fact.

Rand was also very flexible with his use of new media, bouncing back and forth his powerpoint to a website to a video until it reaches his involvement of the students in the class. It definitely showed his originality in presenting his topic.

Our Class Wiki - So Far

Within the New Media Wiki, I have signed up as a contributor and editor of "New Media and Privacy Issues." I have added some interesting information while I was doing research for my term project. Finding that this source of information is both beneficial to enhancing my presentation and the wiki, I added it up without hesitating. The source of information is regarding privacy and confidentiality issues in new media, which is more prominent in social networking sites. What I added is a case that discusses and explores how information revelation in social networking profiles is not considered as defamation or invasion of privacy if spread since it is already revealed by the user on his or her profile. In the case, the plaintiff did not win the case because of the court-ruling. I made sure to add the source of the article so that anyone who is interested in reading it can access it. Also, I added some useful photographs into the web page to better illustrate how privacy and information revelation can exist together in some form of glasshouse (where one can feel at the borders of his/her home and at the same time being seen by others). It has been very advantageous for me to have contributed to this page because not only has it given me the opportunity to actually contribute to a wiki but also it has helped me with my term project for the semester and has helped me learn of various fun facts. I also edited some parts of the web page because there were various grammatical errors and I made sure I didn't erase whatever has been written on that page section so no information could be deleted, and whoever it is who contributed could go back and build up that section.

The Next New Thing

Because there have been so many undergone innovations and creations that have been executed by computer geniuses or companies, there isn't a lot of other ideas that can be though out. Because there is always new ideas, there are still hopes for new concepts to develop into the next fad or the "next new thing." One that does not exist yet that can be this next new thing is a mobile or/and mp3-based innovation. The feature that must be added in these devices is a navigation satellite system that would allow an individual to find his/her way around an unfamiliar place or when trying to explore unknown areas for adventure or just to find a certain store, restaurant, or possible hang-out hotspots. This many will love, because people are in love with adventure and finding new things and places. As someone who likes to figure out where a store or restaurant or a hangout spot is, this device will surely help me find my way around instead of trying to search for it for many hours, which will ruin the mood once the place is found. Because phone do have a gps function to them, this new gps application is an improved version, in which it can be used either via car and miles or via walking and steps so that information will not be mixed up and stir confusion. Of course, an option will pop up once the application is opened into the mainframe of the mobile or mp3 device. With this new device, traveling will be much more easier and enjoyable because it allows for exploration. Anywhere one goes, no one will be lost, because everyone will be able to find their way. One can travel even without a tour guide!!!

Privacy and Confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality are huge issues of new media today. These issues are usually interconnected with social networking sites than any other forms of new media. As such, Myspace and Facebook are targeted social networks with privacy and confidentiality concerns. People usually disclose and expose unnecessary information to the general public that of which can backfire against them. Because individuals have been carelessly revealing such information as their phone numbers, addresses, sibling names, birthdays, and many more, this revelation may lead to identity theft and harm the individual or their loved ones. Also, the exposure of certain information may lead to stalking, sexual harassment, and other types of potential attacks that can invade their privacy. Because new media is taking our identities and privacy to a new level, the community must be aware of the privacy settings and options that are available for them in order to manage their profile so that it remains exclusive only to their friends, families, and the people they know. There are other options to block others from seeing anything from your profile as well (including profile pictures) and the disabling of messaging and commenting on your profile page. In this way, information remains secured and confidential, and privacy is kept safe.

Advice to Baruch College

Baruch College by itself is doing a pretty good job at using new media. Even campus events are advertised through Facebook, posters hung all over campus, e-mails sent to students, and other many ways to get it across as many students as possible. The college also has its own calendar to inform its students what the crucial dates are: due dates to drop and withdraw from a class or when the school is closed. Because internet is crucial in our everyday lives, students' unofficial transcripts are available for viewing to keep track of the grades, the updates in each of the classes enrolled in, and the courses needed to take through Esims, Blackboard, and DegreeWorks (in order to graduate). Although all these sites are applied to help us in informing us about updates and the necessary courses we need to take, there are a bunch of changes that need to be addressed. Blackboard has been improved: "Yes." but it still needs to be further enhanced to be more user-friendly by reducing its complexities. Also, for the New Media class, students are able to use a wiki, which is so much easier to use and very organized. Maybe, the school should make a wiki website with classes in each field to better serve the students with the information they need for the course (ie: syllabus for each professor teaching the course). This will aid the students to view the syllabus for each class that they are interested in taking and are anticipating to register for the next semester, informing them what the professors' teaching methods are and what is expected of them. In this way, this will better prepare the students for the upcoming semesters ahead of them, helping them organize their schedules and make it a bit more coordinated.

My New Media Class So Far

What kinds of technologies are part of new media?

New Media involves many different array of technology that mostly involves the internet. With access to the internet, many applications has made it possible to expand media and create new uses of the web. As such, these web applications made it more convenient to the general public to communicate and interact with others with just a single hit of a button in an internet interface or network connection anywhere at anytime. Because new media has evolved so much, our tools of communication has revolutionized to a myriad of different forms. These include blogs, wikis, social networking sites, voip, virtual worlds, etc.

How important is the Internet to the new media?

The Internet is a very essential ground for new media, because the web helps facilitate new media throughout the globe. With internet access, many forms of new media can amass a multitude number of information and enable the user to take advantage of many applications available at the web interface. Because internet is regarded as such an important factor in developing new innovations, it can be considered the soul of new media.

Why and how are the new media replacing and/or enhancing the old media?

New media is not replacing any old media as believed by many. Instead, it is augmenting and enhancing old media with up-to-date technologies. New media is only the polished version of old media to properly suit the new generation. The only changes between the two are that new media has more to offer, easy to use, convenient, promote interaction and communication with others, globalized, and efficient, but the main purpose and the backbone of new media are the same as old media. This is applicable in the television and newspaper industries, which are suffering from business problems and inefficient amounts of revenue. This is due to the the revolution of new media in which news are very much available through the internet, where where they could reach a larger audience than before.

According to Old Media Hits the Skids as New Models Roil Market, "Newspapers also struggled mightily in 2007, in ways that hinted at underlying problems in the business. The New York Times canceled its Times Select online tool because not enough viewers were willing to pay for content.

The Times may be about to face a street fight from the new owner of The Wall Street Journal. In another sign of the chaos overtaking the print world, the Bancroft family sold its controlling interest in Dow Jones & Co. for $5.6 billion to media baron Rupert Murdoch, causing a hue and cry among observers who worry that the owner of Fox News and the New York Post will dumb down the Journal.

Some of the city's most well-respected magazine brands got into in trouble as the year wore on. The world's largest magazine company, Time Inc., saw ad pages decline at Time, Fortune, MoneyBusiness 2.0 and finally killed the last title. Critics said Time Inc. had been too slow in developing a Web presence for its magazines." and

Old Media Hits the Skids by Joyce Hanson Crain's New York Business, Dec 22, 2007. available at http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007465255421

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

New media has made dramatic steps into our lives that it is seen everywhere we go and turn around. In our society, the role of a medium has essentially played an important role that even the current president used it as a tool to connect with us throughout last year's presidential campaign until he caught everyone's attention and won their votes. Technology has accommodated many people but not limited to the entertainment industry, education, politics, and businesses. This new technological approach has built in a nest where it is developed in order to better serve the needs of the people. Another form of new media is the virtual worldl.

A virtual world is a computer-simulated environment in which many people can interact with others via avatars, a representation of himself/herself. Created and played by real people, this modeled world is almost like a representation of reality via a digital world. The use of virtual world can extend from a simple diversion to even business and professional-related uses. Major corporations have turned to virtual world as they have used other new media such as social networks and wikis. I never knew that virtual worlds can be used to help train potential employees and personnel to properly prepare them into their respective job positions. For example, a personnel can use the virtual world as a practice to market a certain product to clients. Although this is a faux practice, it makes the user notice his or her mistakes as others critique their presentation and notify them what they are lacking and need to improve. This helps employees to come up with a different approach to the promotion in order to appear more convincing and effective in front of the clients. Also, the employees can make as much mistakes as they can and repeat the process over and over again to develop their skills and to strengthen their representation of themselves and the product they are trying to sell to the respective clients. Virtual worlds offer an environment where people can build up their confidence and skills at little cost (time). In the article "IBM Learning Programs Get a 'Second Life,'" "[New IBM employees] can learn real-life working skills such as signing up for benefits, developing code as part of a global team, and ramping up sales skills before they meet with IBM clients” (Frauenheim) as stated by IBM vice president Ted Hoff. The virtual world or in this case, second life, helps its users to improve their communication skills and properly integrate it into their workplace and their lives. Because other people also suffer from low self-esteem and cannot speak to others, the cyber world will help them converse with others with the representation in their avatars, which can lead to an improvement in their social lives while their second lives foster interactive skills.

As much as there is such an advantageous side to virtual worlds, there are also downsides to it. Some people dedicate most of their time to playing their second lives and almost not living their primary lives to the point that this virtual world is almost replacing their real lives. Also, another important dark side to this medium as mentioned last lecture class is that now the military and the army are reverting to virtual worlds to train potential soldiers to fight in a virtual battlefield against game experts in order to prepare them to the real combat zone. Through this virtual world, young soldier learn how to shoot and kill people, the skills in which they need to foster before being launched in a blitz. Although this is helping the military and the army to cultivate their scouts into disciplined and skilled soldiers, this is also promoting the idea that killing is widely conventional and not evil as it conditions those players (who are still in their youth) this notion. Therefore, the representation of virtual worlds in this way will impact the way of thinking of our future generations and will become a bad role model for these children.

Frauenheim, Ed. "IBM Learning Programs Get a ‘Second Life'". Workforce Management. October 19, 2009 http://www.workforce.com/section/00/article/24/61/08.html.

Social Networking

Social Networking is a very powerful tool of communication in new media, which can also be used for many purposes as well. It helps to interact with family and friends conveniently and allows an individual to reconnect with past acquaintances, create new relationships with others and build those via social networks, put up updates about what is going on in your life, and also establish networks in order to market oneself for an available job. Because mere individuals can use social networks for these functions, just imagine what big companies and corporations can do with these. With more resources at hand, companies are able to market and promote their products in these social networks better while maintaining customer relationships. They also use these social networking systems in order to get feedback from customers who rate their products in order to improve the service and/or products. Through professional social sites as LinkedIn, many professionals are able to recruit potential new talents suitable for the job (Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting). Also, corporations attract and screen employees through social network systems in this virtual world and create and build relationships with suppliers, customers, and potential business partners (What's Next: Your Future in Social Networking).

Of course, there are benefits that come along with social networks just as there exists some disadvantages to it also. As previously mentioned by the above paragraph, users are able to interact and connect with family and friends so easy that they are able to keep in touch even in different parts of the world. Also, people are able to find jobs through social sites as LinkedIn while corporations look for viable potential recruits with a simple click of a button to find a talent suitable for the job. The negative sides to social networking is the permeability of people into the system, who friends one and use social networks as a means of a stalking, harassing, and a bullying device. People also put false information into their profile and pretend to be someone they are not just to follow and get updates from a certain individual. Other unfortunate events even led to child harassment, sex offenders, and suicide.


Social Networking at IBM: Maclean's Feb 4, 2008 "What's Next? Your Future in Social Networking" vol 121, p. 42. http://ibm.rogersconsumerpublishing.com/macleans/downloads/social.pdf
Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting by Frank Langfitt, NPR, March 16, 2008. available from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf

Check Out Social Networking Sites

Social networks is a virtual social structure that is made up of individuals, groups, and communities of people who are all connected to each other in some way or form. Social networking is a program that of which allows us to connect with others, such as keeping in touch with old friends and distant relatives. It is also a great place to meet new people and make new friends amongst them. Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Hi5, and several others are among some of the most used networks in the world.

Hi5 is a social network that is probably not as known as other social networks in the world but is popular in other countries, namely in Latin America. It is seen as very user-friendly that allows an individual to upload files, such as music and photos into the profile. Also, it allows one to join groups, meet people, and of course, connect with others.

Like Hi5, Friendster also allows members to enjoy the same privileges as Hi5 although it is mostly popular in some parts of Asia and many parts of Europe. Some of my cousins use this social network in order to get in touch with some of their friends from some parts of Asia and it functions the same way as other social networks. As of now, it is creating many updates in order to catch up to the rising popularity of both Myspace and Facebook, which is the two utmost popular social networks in the world. Now that it allows many to add games, create a blog, and applications into its site, it makes Friendster a place where people collaborate, play together, and help others know each other better in this virtual community. Friendster also permits its user to be creative and create their own website design via html in order to transform their webpage into something they are comfortable with and something with more personality.

Like Friendster, Myspace also have similar functions as sharing photographs, videos and music, uploading applications and games, designing their homepage, and many more. In order to differentiate Myspace from other social networks, many bands use Myspace in order to market their talents and in order to be discovered by music agents. Myspace is sort of, in a way, their stepping stone to stardom (well, for some, at least). It also allows you to add a gadget into your profile in order to help others know what one's mood of the day is. I actually used Myspace when I was still in high school and it was pretty fun until I got into college and was introduced into a more professional social network (Facebook). Also, the only setback with Myspace is that spams are easily spread out into the network, and Myspace is not very good in facilitating and preventing this from happening.

Having moved to Facebook, I actually enjoy the look of the uniform-like webpage. I like the professional look of it, because with other social networks that allow html, the designs can sometime make the page too convoluted and crowded with all the applications and other designs that are overlapping with each other. Facebook gives out a feeling of a more clearly-defined and organized profile. Other than allowing for html, it offers the same features as the previous social networks (from connecting to others, uploading pictures and videos, uploading applications, gadgets, and games, create quizes, notes, and blogs, joining groups and many more). Also, it totally filters out spams. Another pro about Facebook is that it connects you with friends via schools, which is a trend that other social networks are copying as well. Facebook is definitely user-friendly and encourage the importance of privacy, making it a safer social network than others. Because of what it offers, Facebook does deserve its esteemed and rising popularity throughout the world.

Blogs vs. Wikis

Compare and contrast blogs and wikis.

A wiki is a community in which users are able to create, edit, share, collaborate, and organize any information, which are subject to change with the use of a simplified marked-up language (edit, save, link). Wiki information is constantly changing through an on-going process through which different people find the time to add, change, and proofread information. This communication tool helps collaboration between communities of people possible with much flexibility and convenience. However, although much of wiki is beneficial to others, it also has its disadvantages. Since anybody and everybody can change and edit information in a wiki, information may be so manipulated and out of focus that the information content becomes obscured and unreliable.

A blog is the complete opposite of a wiki, in which it is a type of website that is maintained by a specific individual. ore importantly, unlike a wiki, a blog does not allow others to have access to edit or change the information provided in the blog. The entries of commentaries and the information shared in blogs are purely subjective upon an individual's perception, opinions, and experiences. It mostly protects the privacy of the blogger through which the blogger has the ability to control what can be seen by others, who are blocked, what to edit, delete and post, and whether or not others can read, comment, or access his/her blog. Only the blogger has the authority and no one else does, which is why blogs are usually seen as a more professional software also because professionals use blogs in order to comment and point out their ideas on certain present issues and controversies.

Comment on the importance of convergence in today's networked world.

The convergence of old media into new media has become an extraordinary factor in shaping the world we live in today. Convergence is the driving force behind the new media that creates a disturbance in old media, obliging old media to compete with new media in order to stay in the market. For example, television is competing with the internet, through which a surge of viewers go online to watch the shows they want to see or missed at the time when they are able to (Eg: Hulu, Tivo). This hurts the television industries, because the show ratings are being eaten up by the online entities that allow people to watch the shows that are aired in TV. Basically, although through convergence, the augmentation of old media into new media is made possible, it is seen, at present, how new media is eating up old media. Due to this, old media may have to plummet from pop culture and permit new media to ascend although the only harm that it does is morph old media into new media.

Because old media is usually a closed barrier to which only the ones with authorities are able to control what is being published, posted, and shared to the general public, here comes the new media that allows for the opposite. New media has permitted any and every individual to get their voice heard and to express themselves with the talent they are skilled in. Also, new media allows them to exhibit these skills to the world; hence, empowering the common people and enabling the community to converge, collaborate, create, and communicate as a community together. Together, a demographic of people are able to share what they have created to the world and make it available for everyone else. Members of these communities are able to lend a hand and contribute to the community while pursuing his/her interests. With the help of others, they are able to enjoy working on their hobbies and create something out of the ordinary and reap the fruits of their efforts and dedication. An example of this is Facebook, made by a group of students in Harvard to create a community inside their university and enable the students to communicate with others through this social networking site. Because Facebook rose to popularity, it expanded to other colleges and universities and soon, to everyone else in the world although the primary purpose of this social network is exclusively for the use of the students in Harvard only.

How can blogs be used for collaboration?

Blogs can be used for collaboration through user generated commentary, discussion or conversation on a topic and issue of a certain entry, and an available chat-box application in the blog home-page, to name a few. It would also be a great way to collaborate by subscribing to someone else's blog in order to receive blog updates from that individual and write up a response or comment about the present matter. One's blog can generate much popularity by linking that person's blog into your site so other people are able to see and read and comment on the the entries in that blog. An example through which a blog has been used for collaboration is Perez HIlton's Blog, which is viewed, commented, and discussed by a myriad of people around the world.

A New Use for Wikis

The article "How To Use Wikis for Business" illustrates how wikis have been so beneficial to businesses lately. Through a wiki, business colleagues working on a team project are able to organize how the information is presented, edit and add more details to build the project more. This makes it much more easier for professionals to edit errors and change information whereas with Word Documents and Spreadsheets, team members create changes while the others are correcting some information at the same time (sometimes overwriting the changes made by others). This, in turn, creates a chaotic team-work, in which the colleagues are unaware what is changed or not and who has the latest version of the file. Because this is so, the notion that wikis are unprofessional is blurred since businesses have used it in a way that makes it a professional software.

There have been numerous uses for wikis in various fields as business, education, and politics. Other possible uses for wikis may be to include the field of medicine and research, technology, and fitness in order to help share each others' ideas and knowledge into the database and help come up with better hypotheses and objectives through collaboration and interaction.

"How to Use Wikis for Business," by Ezra Goodnoe, Information Week, August 8, 2005,http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331

Old vs. New

How do we distinguish “new media” from “old” media? List and explain several ways to do this.

In order to distinguish new media from old media, there are five factors that we must place importance to. These factors are the 5 C's: convergence, communication, collaboration, creativity, and community, all of which helped morph old media into new media. Old media used to only be provided by private and limited amount of companies, who control various information from being leaked into the public, but now, through the 5 C's, many including the public are able to share information with others via blogs, forums, wikis, and social network services (to list a few). Although new media has been seen to replace the old new media, it isn't so. All they do is transform old media into a better way of communicating with others through collaboration, creativity, and community by converging different types of new media. For example, old media as newspapers and television has been revolutionized by online newspapers and Tivo, through which many are able to comment on the specific show and article and also be able to read and watch past episodes and articles. This helps many people who are busy to go back in time through the internet and watch their favorite episodes and read their favorite newspapers, while conveniently fitting it into their schedule. In new media, everyone is included and counted in, along with their collaboration, contribution, and opinions. The big gap between these two distinct forms of media is how the information is shared, sent, and received and how fast the information gets reported and displayed to the public. Obviously, with the breakthrough in technology, new media has a greater advantage in distributing information to the general public, making it way too easy to share information with the single touch of a button than with old media and people's opinions and the information they contribute matter and are not ignored.

Examples of old media transforming into new media:

• Television - Tivo. Hulu
• Newspapers - Online Newspapers/Ezines
• Diary - Blogs
• CD Player - Mp3 Player
• Radio - Podcasts
• Books - Ebooks
• Face-to-face Interaction - Social Networking (through Facebook (etc.), Texting and Talking through the phone, and IMs)

Term Project Description

Social Networking: Better or Worse than the Real Thing?

Many social network services have been so prominent in our lives that they almost occupied much of our pastime with hours of unproductive idling. Although social networking aims to build online communities of people to help groups of people interact with others, this service does little to accommodate us with quality relationships. It is as if everything becomes superficial and quantity now overrides quality in terms of creating a relationship with others. As social network programs have been established and gained much popularity to date, a mass demographic of people have been so beguiled by this medium that many of us do not realize what a quality relationship is anymore. This is a huge social issue in our communities today that must be addressed in our generation. This setback can be reversed by replacing online networking with face-to-face networking although what social network services offer is convenience to busy people who cannot afford to meet with others many of the times. Such networking services include Facebook, Twitter, and many more, which I will be focusing on to examine the positive and negative impacts associated with social networks. Also, I hope to analyze and discuss whether social networks are indeed "better or worse than the real thing."

What is New Media?

According to Wikipedia, New Media is a "term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20th century." However, for many people, mediums are considered new technologies that allow people to communicate and interact with each other even in distances that set people apart. Having made this possible with advanced technologies, the 21st century has now stepped foot in a new era of a digital world, a world in which technology rapidly changes and proceeds into more breakthroughs in new media.

In the 21st century, new media plays a huge role in our lives; in fact, there might even be not one person touched or exposed by this digitized world we live in. This is how prominent technology is in our digital lifestyle. Because there is no official definition to what new media is, many describe it to be the latest innovative technology that allows us to network and socialize with others with a single touch of a button or a screen. This includes Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, del.icio.us, blogs, and texting as forms of convenient communication tools.

For example, when the telephone was first introduced in the 20th century, it was then when this first communication tool started to allow people to communicate with others far distant from them. Because new media was developed and improved, wireless cellular phones have now permitted individuals to communicate with their family or friends from anywhere and anytime, just as long as this device is present within their grasp. However, nowadays, cell phones have undergone such a complete make-up remodel in which no one can even imagine how advanced new media has become with this single communication tool. Cell phone then has permitted us to only communicate from others who are out of reach from where we are, at present, but now it has dramatically changed our lives by granting us the convenience of accessing new mediums as the internet, chatting with others, writing in our blogs, downloading applications (eg: games), playing music and watching shows or videos, and numerous others that this communication tool has made available and possible with technology. Because new media has captured our lives in a digital world, our generation becomes so dependent on it that even I cannot imagine having it absent, especially now that our lifestyles are based on the influences of new media. Cellphone has dramatically improved since it first was introduced into our world and because its development is unstoppable, many measures are being taken in order to intensify its services to us. According to the NYTimes, "the ChaCha is a new program that offers free services for cell phones by allowing an individual to inquire a question, which is answered via a text message by a person at the other end, who researched the subject to properly solicit the right information and to answer the inquiry." This shows how new media is offering new services, as a new and improved old media.

The Internet is a very important aspect of new media, where many people pool their sources of ideas, invent new communication tools as Facebook, share photographs, videos, and songs that others have created, collaborate with other people with the use of IMs and chat rooms, and create blogs about their ideas, interests, and how their day went. In effect, the internet satisfies all of the 5 C's (Communication, Collaboration, Community, Creativity, and Convergence). Although it may seem that new media is replacing the old media, it is not so. In actuality, new media is enhancing old media by creating more innovative and convenient tools to interact with others. Improvements in technology only augments old media, which transforms it into new media; therefore, not replacing old new media at all.

Pogue, David. "Yahoo's Answer to Speech Recognition for your Cellphone". NYtimes. September 14, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/technology/personaltech/10pogue-email.html.