Social Gaming
Video games, a popular activity that has grown ever since the technology boom in the 1980’s. Today, with fast internet and new technology at our fingertips, video games have become apart of our social lives too. Now you may not consider yourself a hardcore gamer, but there is a choice you partake in social gaming…
Is technology making healthcare better?
It’s no secret that technology is apart of everyday lives, social, work, domestic and now even our health. Many products including smart watches and apps are available to help people track their health habits like exercise and step goals, heart rates and even menstrual cycles for women. Since the covid-19 pandemic, healthcare has needed to…
Crowdsourcing: a tool to aid emergency response
Crowdsourcing, a practice that has been around since 1714, when the British government offered a 20,000 reward to anyone who could solve the “longitude problem”, when sailors didn’t have an accurate way of measuring their east-west position (Riccardi, 2016). In concept, crowdsourcing is “using the power of the internet and social media to ‘virtually’ harness…
Is bullying worse online?
I’m sure we’ve all heard of ‘online fights’ or even talked about drama that takes place over social media. Since social media creates a space for people to share their opinion, it also leaves a place for people to argue and insult other users. It’s not news that teenagers struggle to get along, or that…
Clicktivism: is our social media activism really that active?
You’ve probably heard of activism before, the process in which individuals collaborate together to express shared ideas, perhaps in the form of petitions, protests and movement organisations. In our digital age we now also have digital activism; where digital tools (the internet, mobile phones, social media) are used for bringing about social and/or political change.…
Professionalism vs Amateurism: Social media approaches in politics
Social media has become an integral part of our lives and it’s not longer just used in a personal way. Many businesses use social media to market their products and even politicians engage with social media to campaign and interact with the public, including potential voters. Since television much of our media has become image…
Are our social experiences bound up with social media?
If you have a social media profile of some sort, you have the ability to follow whatever you like, comment whatever you want, unfriend and unsubscribe to things and people that you don’t agree with. It takes us a second to cut out unwanted opinions, activities and people out of our lives, well at least…
Is WordPress a blog or a social network site?
Social media – a term that many are familiar with and either love or hate. It’s very prevalent in our western society and it changing the culture and world that we live in today. Murthy broadly defines social media as “the many relatively inexpensive and widely accessible electronic tools that enable anyone to publish and…
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