The document discusses the uses and gratification theory, which examines how people actively use media to meet various needs. It identifies key needs that media can fulfill, such as information, personal identity, social interaction, and entertainment. Research has found that men and women tend to blog about different topics that align with these needs. Studies aim to understand the motives for blogging and outcomes of this activity by surveying bloggers and non-bloggers.
Has new media democratised the production of media texts by shifting the control of media content away from large media institutions?
Has new media changed the way media texts are consumed and what are the social implications for this?
Has new media technology provided new cross-cultural, global media texts that communicate across national and social boundaries?
How active or interactive are consumers of new media and how significant is this in terms of power?
How has new/digital media impacted on traditional media productions and consumption?
To what extent does new media escape some of the constraints of censorship that traditional media encounters?
Has new media democratised the production of media texts by shifting the control of media content away from large media institutions?
Has new media changed the way media texts are consumed and what are the social implications for this?
Has new media technology provided new cross-cultural, global media texts that communicate across national and social boundaries?
How active or interactive are consumers of new media and how significant is this in terms of power?
How has new/digital media impacted on traditional media productions and consumption?
To what extent does new media escape some of the constraints of censorship that traditional media encounters?
what is folk media, genesis, characteristics and significance of folk media in development context, contribution of folk media in development of the society, limitations of mass media, advantages of folk media, comparison of folk media with electronic media.
In this slideshare, Anabelle Chaumun (GlobalizNow.com) gives an overview on how the topic 'globalization' appears in the western media. At Globaliz, we think that we come to an age where globalization is not only exchanges of material and financial goods, but also wealth through national and international communities abroad.
what is folk media, genesis, characteristics and significance of folk media in development context, contribution of folk media in development of the society, limitations of mass media, advantages of folk media, comparison of folk media with electronic media.
In this slideshare, Anabelle Chaumun (GlobalizNow.com) gives an overview on how the topic 'globalization' appears in the western media. At Globaliz, we think that we come to an age where globalization is not only exchanges of material and financial goods, but also wealth through national and international communities abroad.
Audience Theory Introduction - Effects, Uses and Gratification, ReceptionJohn DF
Overview of the common audience theories looked at for AS Media Studies:
Effects Theory
Uses and Gratification Theory
Reception Theory
This is not specific to any board, and can apply to Film Studies as well in certain cases.
This presentation was part of a session run by Nicola Osborne, EDINA, for the University of Edinburgh Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice's Learning and Teaching Online module. Accompanying notes can be found here: http://nicolaosborne.blogs.edina.ac.uk/files/2010/10/SocMed-Notes.pdf.
This was a guest lecture presented online at 12.30pm, Monday 14th October 2013, as part of Session 2: Co-creation in the University of Edinburgh Institute for Academic Development's Online Tutoring course (Autumn 2013).
How Social Media Affects Our Self-PerceptionBy Kelsey Sunstrum.docxadampcarr67227
How Social Media Affects Our Self-Perception
By Kelsey Sunstrum
Not long ago, a friend of mine deleted her Instagram account. I couldn’t understand why one would ever do such a thing, so I asked and her response caught me off-guard.
She deleted her Instagram because she felt herself becoming depressed by it. The pressure of taking the right picture, with the right filter, wearing the right outfit, at the right place, with the right people was too much pressure.
We are conditioned to project only our best, albeit unrealistic, selves on our social media profiles as a modern way of virtually keeping up with the Joneses.
Regardless of whether you realize it, you’re spending a great deal of time and effort on the creation of your digital identity. The molding of this alternate self depends heavily on how others are projecting themselves in these arenas as well. What happens to your ‘real’ self, then?
Enter ‘smiling depression.’
Smiling depression is a term used to describe people who are depressed but do not appear so. In America today, 6.7 percent of the population over the age of 18 suffers from major depression, and it is the leading cause of disability in the 15-44 age range.
If you were to meet me for the first time, you would be very surprised to learn I have major depression. It is second nature to me to put on a mask of a happy person. Not only do I talk with people, I’m often the loudest person at a gathering and can always find something to joke or laugh about. This is smiling depression.
Social media puts an interesting lens on the creation of the self, and how this construction affects our mental well-being. The ideal self is the self we aspire to be. My ideal self would be a 25-year-old successful freelance writer who lives in a perpetually clean house and who always takes the time to put on makeup before she leaves the house.
One’s self-image is the person we actually are based on the actions, behaviors, and habits currently possessed. My self-image would be of a 25-year-old freelance writer just starting her business in a house that’s mostly clean most of the time and who forces herself not to wear pajamas everywhere.
According to Carl Rogers’s theory of personality, every human has the basic instinct to improve herself and realize her full potential. Like Abraham Maslow, he called this achievement self-actualization. He believed this state was attained when the ideal self and the person’s self-image were in line with each other. This person would be deemed a fully functioning person.
Each of us carries what Robert Firestone termed the critical inner voice. It is a dynamic that exists within every individual that offers a negative filter through which to view our life. It is theorized that the voice is created at an early age during times of stress or trauma.
Social media is not only extremely pervasive, it is an activity in which you are expected to participate. Not all social media is Facebook and Instagram. Think LinkedIn, the.
Discussion 1Questionplease describe the reasons for having.docxmadlynplamondon
Discussion 1:
Question:
please describe the reasons for having a totally anonymous means of accessing the internet. Please also discuss the dangers of that same internet.
The overall population wherein we live can constantly be incredibly moderate, every now and again making it perilous to possess explicit articulations, have certain determinations, or grasp a particular lifestyle. The mystery is noteworthy for online exchanges including sexual abuse, minority issues, incitement, and various things. Additionally, lack of definition is useful for people who need to present particular request that they would incline toward not to surrender they don't have the foggiest thought regarding the reaction to, report unlawful activities without fear of vengeance, and various things. For occurrence, the region of Florida keeps up a baffling hotline for government workers to report wastes and abuse to the representative's office. Without mystery, these exercises can result in open analysis or repel physical harm, loss of business or status, and from time to time, even authentic action. Protection from harm coming about due to this kind of social intolerance is a particular instance of a huge and genuine usage of mystery on the web. Authorities who are people from the on-line arrange routinely ask their patients to interface with others and structures support packs on issues about which they don't feel incredible discussing unreservedly. It is key to have the alternative to express certain ends without revealing your genuine character. One appropriate instance of lack of definition in all actuality is the exchange over Caller ID on phones. Plenty of people were maddening that the person on the not exactly alluring finish of a telephone call would know the character of the visitor. People had thought little of that they could be obscure in the occasion that they required and were annoyed at that anonymity being evacuated. Many net customers feel a comparable course about the on-line mystery.
Discussion 2:
Question:
please describe the reasons for having a totally anonymous means of accessing the internet. Please also discuss the dangers of that same internet.
Recent surveys indicate there are several users of internet present across the world and these users should know about privacy and security policies while using internet so that they can protect themselves against attacks and secure their personal information. This is possible with anonymity of internet where it hides the users address and any other personal information. It is also explained as that identity of users will be hidden and they can freely express their ideas and opinions and need not worry about criticisms and negative comments from other users. This anonymity is mostly preferred by users where they can freely post messages and videos and need not worry about backlash from others. It is also helpful when they are searching some sensitive issues in internet related to health wher ...
Presented at the Idean UX Summit Austin, May 2014. My colleagues and I are integrating approaches for creating with social complexity, and this talk provides an overview of our work in progress.
It outlines the nature of social complexity, and surveys three approaches appropriate for the challenge: Positive Deviance, Theory U & Social Labs, and the work of Dave Snowden and Cognitive Edge.
Consider this a case of "showing my mess." Future installments will reflect more synthesis, tell more stories, and better describe the emerging practice of managing emergence.
BUSI 240
Discussion Board Example
Groupthink
Definition: Organizational Behavior notes, “Groupthink is the tendency of highly cohesive groups to value consensus at the price of decision quality” (McShane & Von Glinow, 2008, p. 257).
Summary: The article entitled “The Turn to Online Research is Narrowing the Range of Modern Scholarship, a New Study Suggests” written by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow (2008) discusses how the internet has made accessing research and other things on the internet extremely easy. The author asserts that by using search engines, which often rank the importance of a result by popularity, students leave themselves vulnerable to groupthink when conducting research results (Tuhus-Dubrow, 2008). Tuhus-Dubrow (2008) suggests that this this can be mitigated by using multiple sources to help provide a more well-rounded research pool.
Discussion: The internet has made performing research for students a matter of seconds. Students used to have to go to the library and conduct research out of textbooks and other publications but now by simply typing your subject in a search engine a variety of choices are at your fingertips. “Millions of journal articles are available online, enabling scholars to find material they never would have encountered at their university libraries” (Tuhus-Dubrow, 2008, para 2).
The internet just like everything else has it costs as well as benefits. Just like the article states the internet has started to dominate people’s lives. People rely on the internet for everything for both work and personal use.
The internet is considered to be a new form of groupthink because when searching for articles students are not highly selective in the choices they make and they tend to pick one of the few search choices that comes up. Also, the other alternatives of research are now not used due to the convenience of the internet. Tuhus-Dubrow (2008) make the case that outcomes should be portrayed by search engines in some organized way because most websites depend on devices that classify primarily in a couple of ways. The ways they are classified are by chronological order and by popularity (Tuhus-Dubrow, 2008). If a search engine filters results by popularity then this is groupthink because others are succumbing to the will of the group by choosing the same articles that show up first as results.
Do you feel that internet search engines cause groupthink? If so, elaborate on why you think this. Do you feel that this is why many professors at Liberty University want students to not choose the same discussion board topics? I personally feel that the reason professors want us to chose different topics is so that we will not reflect the same views and chose the same articles which would therefore be groupthink.
References
Adler, S. (2009). At davos, beware the tide of groupthink. Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved from: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2009/db2009021_878209.htm
McShane, S., & Von G.
Development and Engagement in the Age of Social Media Paul Brown
Originally presented to the professional staff at the University of Dayton in January of 2016. Reviews aspects of college student development online and how to engage college students.
Coaching Digital Leaders Starts With Your SelfiePaul Brown
The following presentation was originally presented to college leadership education professionals at the LEAD365 Conference in Orlando Florida in November of 2015. This presentation provides an overview of the digital identity formation and digitized development of college students. Impacts on practice and education are discussed.
Develop a 3-5 page outline of concepts you would like to apply to .docxkhenry4
Develop a 3-5 page outline of concepts you would like to apply to your own life and identify relevant scholarly sources that will help you with your application of concepts.
As you may have noticed as you have worked through earlier assessments, Sociology is applicable to our everyday lives. We can oftentimes take a sociological concept and use it to explain something that occurs in our own lives. For example, you have learned about norms and how we tend to follow the norms of a society. You can use that to explain how people behave when they are in an elevator. Most people face forward, look up at the numbers, and don't talk.
Many of your experiences can be analyzed using sociological concepts. For your final assessment, Assessment 6, you will complete a Sociology of Me and apply many of the concepts you have learned about in this course to your own life. For Assessment 5, begin to think about which concepts you would like to apply to your own experience, develop an outline, and identify appropriate resources. In order to complete this assessment, you will need to show your understanding of some additional concepts related to social structure, education, and technology/media.
We have learned how a society's culture can influence people. There are other elements in society, however, that also affect our decisions and behavior. Sociological research has found that in addition to culture, social structure and groups also significantly impact many of our individual choices. Our position in the social structure affects our behaviors, attitudes, and ideas. For example, an important element of social structure are groups. We belong to a variety of different groups. Decades of research have documented the impact of group conformity on the individual. Although people tend to often believe that they act as individuals and aren't impacted by others, research has found this is usually not the case. The Milgram experiment in your Resources is a great example. Milgram (1963) examined conformity and obedience and found that people are highly influenced by authority and the demands of conformity, even to the point that we will inflict pain on another person to obey authority.
Sociologists also study education and how it is impacted by a society's culture and structure. The purpose of education is to provide knowledge (facts, skills, cultural norms) to members of a society. In the United States, education teaches us not just skills, but also how to be effective citizens. Education transmits the dominant culture, ensuring that children understand cultural norms and values. Educational attainment impacts life outcomes—it affects our occupation, earnings, work conditions, and health. Thus, education is related to social inequality. We have a tendency to assume that education is an equalizer in the United States, but this is something that is debated by sociologists. Is education equally available to everyone? Studies suggest it is not. Social class can impa.
Develop a 3-5 page outline of concepts you would like to apply t.docxkhenry4
Develop a 3-5 page outline of concepts you would like to apply to your own life and identify relevant scholarly sources that will help you with your application of concepts.
As you may have noticed as you have worked through earlier assessments, Sociology is applicable to our everyday lives. We can oftentimes take a sociological concept and use it to explain something that occurs in our own lives. For example, you have learned about norms and how we tend to follow the norms of a society. You can use that to explain how people behave when they are in an elevator. Most people face forward, look up at the numbers, and don't talk.
Many of your experiences can be analyzed using sociological concepts. For your final assessment, Assessment 6, you will complete a Sociology of Me and apply many of the concepts you have learned about in this course to your own life. For Assessment 5, begin to think about which concepts you would like to apply to your own experience, develop an outline, and identify appropriate resources. In order to complete this assessment, you will need to show your understanding of some additional concepts related to social structure, education, and technology/media.
We have learned how a society's culture can influence people. There are other elements in society, however, that also affect our decisions and behavior. Sociological research has found that in addition to culture, social structure and groups also significantly impact many of our individual choices. Our position in the social structure affects our behaviors, attitudes, and ideas. For example, an important element of social structure are groups. We belong to a variety of different groups. Decades of research have documented the impact of group conformity on the individual. Although people tend to often believe that they act as individuals and aren't impacted by others, research has found this is usually not the case. The Milgram experiment in your Resources is a great example. Milgram (1963) examined conformity and obedience and found that people are highly influenced by authority and the demands of conformity, even to the point that we will inflict pain on another person to obey authority.
Sociologists also study education and how it is impacted by a society's culture and structure. The purpose of education is to provide knowledge (facts, skills, cultural norms) to members of a society. In the United States, education teaches us not just skills, but also how to be effective citizens. Education transmits the dominant culture, ensuring that children understand cultural norms and values. Educational attainment impacts life outcomes—it affects our occupation, earnings, work conditions, and health. Thus, education is related to social inequality. We have a tendency to assume that education is an equalizer in the United States, but this is something that is debated by sociologists. Is education equally available to everyone? Studies suggest it is not. Social class can impa.
I have provided a methodology for PR people to keep up-to-date with new things that are going to be important in the near future. I shall be adding content to it for the next couple of months.
The practice of PR has changed. This slideshow offers a view of the basics that every PR consultant should offer clients for 2012.
Probably the most exciting part of the presentation is the list of URL's at the end... Nice way to be very motivated.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
2. Basic idea The choices which people make are motivated by the desire to satisfy (or 'gratify') a range of needs. Hence the uses and gratifications approach is concerned to identify how people use the media to gratify their needs. Blumler J.G. & Katz, E. (1974). The uses of mass communications: Current perspectives on gratifications research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
3. Changed Paradigm The uses-and-gratifications approach shifts the emphasis of communication research from answering the question “what do the media do to people?” (Katz, as cited in Swanson, 1979, p. 4) to “what active audience members do with the media” (Swanson, 1979, p.4).
4. Motivated by the desire to satisfy Generally, the needs which audiences seek to gratify are taken to be as summarized by Denis McQuail, namely: * surveillance/information * personal identity * personal relationships/integration &Social Interaction * diversion/entertainment
5. Information Information # finding out about relevant events and conditions in immediate surroundings, society and the world # seeking advice on practical matters or opinion and decision choices # satisfying curiosity and general interest # learning; self-education # gaining a sense of security through knowledge
6. Personal Identity # finding reinforcement for personal values # finding models of behaviour # identifying with valued other (in the media) # gaining insight into one's self
7. Integration & Social Interaction # gaining insight into circumstances of others; social empathy # identifying with others and gaining a sense of belonging # finding a basis for conversation and social interaction # having a substitute for real-life companionship # helping to carry out social roles # enabling one to connect with family, friends and society
8. Entertainment # escaping, or being diverted, from problems # relaxing # getting intrinsic cultural or aesthetic enjoyment # filling time # emotional release # sexual arousal See also Chandler http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/usegrat.html#A
9. What do People Blog Dan Li ( http://www.whyyoublog.net/doc/Li_Dan_Aug_2005.pdf ) Men blog about external topics (politics, entertainment, sports, education or academics, business, technology and science, arts and culture) more often than women. Women blog about internal topics (interests or hobbies, family and friends, own creative work, and personal experience) more of than men. Wider Reading: K. D. Trammell ( http://blogresearch.com/ref.htm )
10. Identifying Motives, Antecedents, and Outcomes of Weblog Trent Seltzer and Michael Mitrook, University of Florida http://blog.basturea.com/archives/2006/07/17/aejmc-2006-papers/ Initial studies on weblogs have considered their influence on social, business, and political institutions; however, the motives and antecedents that lead individuals to blog, as well as the outcomes associated with weblog use, should also be investigated. This study surveyed 228 college students to identify the uses and gratifications associated with weblog use. Comparisons were also made between bloggers and non-bloggers to identify differences in their patterns of Internet use.
11. Seminar This seminar will allow you to review http://edelman.com/ in some detail. You will need to review different aspects of the site and assess the degree to which they meet different needs. Objectives are: 1. To understand the how to apply the uses and gratification framework to websites 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of websites at meeting user needs