Okay so I know I have fallen behind with this blog thing – I
never expected it to be so time consuming! This media use diary is tripping me
out, due to the fact that I am on my iPhone from the moment I wake up to when I
finally crawl into bed and stalk people on Facebook (you all do it, don’t
pretend you don’t). It is so hard to log that! Especially considering that the
whole time I’m on my phone, I’m going through links to news sites and videos on
youtube, which take up my time as well. Is anyone else having this trouble?
In our second lecture, we spoke a lot about Web 1.0, 2.0 and
3.0 which I found super interesting.
I especially enjoyed talking about Web
3.0, the semantic web. We found that this form of Web was all about making
sense of information and made strong use of meta-tagging. I never realised that
I interacted with Web 3.0 that much, but once I saw that every time I read the
news online I was using meta-tags it all made sense! I like the idea that in
Web 3.0 the focus is on the individual, using hyperlocalisation and specific
content delivery to cater your news to you.
This is something I really love about this JOUR1111 course –
I’m finding out so much about things that I already use and interact with! I’ve
already noticed hyperlocalisation on Facebook, I just never knew anything about
it. Another point, however, was brought up about the personalisation of news
through Web 3.0. By catering to what we want, Web 3.0 is omitting the content
that it assumes we would not want to read. This is essentially diminishing our
horizons in world news etc. and lessening our general knowledge.
Web 2.0 is the web that I have the most experience with –
social media. I use a surprising amount of social media platforms, as I found
when I listed them:
- · Words with Friends
- · Tumblr
- · Youtube
- · Draw Something
- · Blogger
- · Itunes
- · Heytell
- · Lookbook
I ought to be ashamed! This is probably why this media-use
diary is killing me – although it does make me feel like I’m part of a lot of separate
communities.
Another thing we spoke about was entitlement in journalism
which interested me as well (I think we’re seeing a trend of me being interested
in this subject) – raising the question ‘will people continue to pay for
something they have gotten for free for this long? ‘. Personally, I don’t think
so. If my favourite news sites all of a sudden decided I needed to pay to use
them I would certainly try to find a new source.
Cool, so, that’s about it for L2 other than the fall of
investigative journalism and wikileaks etc. Until next time! x
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