Reflection!!

This has come to the end of blogpost, from here I learned about to create a readability of document in writing. As Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) stated that to enhance readability, there must be the combination of layouts, framing and salience. And also Walsh (2006) who stated that the mode of context of the document- print-based text or multimodal text can affect the audience.This make me understand that the type of publication can affect a person with the layout, writing and the others.Overall, I have learned the full package of document designing and writing and i also understand that this both must be perfect to create a good document. I would like to thank Miss Jenny for guiding us since the beginning of this course.

References

Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T. 2006, 'Chapter 1: The semiotic landscape: language and visual
communication' in Reading images: the grammar of visual design, 2dn edn, Routledge, London.

Walsh M, 2006, The 'textual shift': Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, vol. 29, no.1, pp.24 - 37.

Impostors hurt Twitter's Credibility

According to Simon Owens (2009) reported that Twitter,the famous social networking has been use by the celebrity to harm Twitter's credibility. Many celebrity such as Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian and the others actually created Twitter to communicate with their fans. However, some people tend to make celebrity's fake profile by giving the fake news made us cannot even know that it is really credible or not. Simon Owens( 2009) also reported that there is a fake account on Twitter of Dalai Lama which have 20,000 followers and he never tweet anything before and this had been complained and we finally know that it is a fake account. This give a serious problem to journalist and reporters to doubt with the credibility and might report the wrong information to people as Jeremy Porter (2009) stated that 70% of journalist use social networking to help them on reporting. This can be supported by the survey which found that 69 percent of respondents go to company websites to assist in their reporting, while 66 percent use blogs, 51 percent use Wikipedia-wow, 48 percent go to online videos-double wow, and 47 percent use Twitter and other microblogging services -would have guessed higher on this one(Jeremy Porter,2009). Other than that, Peter Sciretta (2009) also stated that this problem can give fake information to the media is a very serious case and he also suggested that this must be done by someone to stop the growing problems of celebrity impostors on twitter. Overall, I think that all these issues cannot be avoided but the only thing is to set regulation on Twitter to perform ethical publishing with credible news and information so that it will not give challenges to journalist to worry about the credibility to give out false information to the public and create misunderstanding.

References

Owen S, 2009, How Celebrity Imposters Hurt Twitter's Credibility, Mediashift, viewed 14 November 2010,

(http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/02/how-celebrity-imposters-hurt-twitters-credibility051.html)

Porter, J 2009, 70 Percent of Journalists Use Social Networks to Assist in Reporting, viewed 14 November 2010,

(http://blog.journalistics.com/2009/70-percent-of-journalists-use-social-networks-to-assist-in-reporting)

Sciretta P, 2009, The Growing Problem of Celebrity Imposters On Twitter, viewed 14 November 2010,

(http://www.slashfilm.com/the-growing-problem-of-celebrity-imposters-on-twitter)

Twitter and Political Discourse

Based on a article of Syed Jaymal Zahiid (2010) reported that Twitter is the current main source of political news rather than blogs. Syed Jaymal Zahiid (2010) again stated that Facebook and Twitter have seen to lead the increase of visitors compared to blogs. Grant Gross (2006) found out that Henry Copeland who is the president and the founder of Blogads saying that people are participants and they are not consumers when dealing with politics. Grant Gross (2006) again emphasized that the social networking are creating members day by day which are more than CNN.com or NYTimes.com and this can show that politician who do not agree that the social networking can really help to increases the number of potential voters. Politicians tend to use Twitter nowadays is because that there is direct communication with each other. For example, citizens and politicians can discuss and share the news about politics and democracy unlike blogging there is no instant feedback which shows that Twitter can be so much more interesting. This can also be supported by Big Pond News (2010) reported that politician use twitter for election because there is interaction and politicians can be followed by many tweeters in one day as like Prime Minister Kevin Rudd followed by more than 900000 tweeters almost everyday.Big Pond News (2010) also reported that Twitter can use for political discourse because it is more personalized to interact with one by one without needing to filter who should be involve or who should not be involve. Overall, I can see that social networking is currently famous even it is use for politics. This can eventually bring to political discourse because there is interaction and it is interesting to involve with politics using Twitter. By using Twitter, politicians can tweet the main issues or problems using Twitter to let citizen know the direct information about politics and this can also make audience to voice out their problems directly so that politicians can solve it together with them to develop a better country to achieve audience's expectation of country.

References

Big Pond News 2010, Politician use Twitter for election, viewed 12 November 2010,

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Politics/2010/02/19/Politicians_use_Twitter_for_election_430679.html

Gross, G 2010, Social Networking Site: The next big thing in politics, viewed 12 November 2010, http://www.infoworld.com/t/architecture/social-networking-sites-next-big-thing-in-politics-307

Zahiid, S.J 2010, Blogging is so yesterday, politicians turn to Twitter, The Malaysian Insider, 11 February 2010.

Ebooks=New Media

According to Deborah Cornwall (2010) reported that ebooks are getting more popular in these days as she predicted that 50 % of books in digital form will be sold and will change the type of books we read to Ebooks. Nowadays, books in digital form are also released as fast as music or movie. Deborah Cornwall (2010) again stated that the rise of ebooks is due to the emergence of Appple Ipad and Amozon's Kindle Book. Thus, this can also related with new media ecosystem. Remez Sasson (2010) stated that the advantages of Ebooks are we can get instant information by downloading ebooks, ebooks can be interactive with audio and videos and ebooks are portable. As mentioned just now, Ipad increases the rise of ebooks which also related to new media ecosystem. Kristine Lowe (2010) stated that since the launch of Ipad, the role of Ipad might play a role in new media ecosystem because of convenience and long form journalism. Overall, ebooks can form a new media ecosystem to give benefits to people because of the different function. This can change the audience perception can create a new genre as ebooks are more interactive with audios, images and videos because Karen A. Schriver (1997) stated that combination of text and images as it can influence the audience by using images as decorates. Therefore, this is the reason ebooks is getting more and more popular with the catchy features and hope that one day our society can successfully persuade people to involve reading using ebooks.

References

Cornwall, D 2010, E-books popularity on rise, viewed 11 November 2010,

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2849989.htm

Lowe, K 2010, Explained: Ipad's role in media ecosystem, viewed 11 November 2010,

http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/05/21/explained-ipad%E2%80%99s-role-in-the-media-ecosystem/

Sasson, R 2010, The advantages and benefits of E-books, viewed 11 November 2010,

http://www.successconsciousness.com/ebooks_benefits.htm

Privacy Rights is important!

Based on a news article from ABC News(2010) reported that the popular social networking-Facebook admits to breach privacy. This news article reported that the application of Facebook were giving the the opportunity to Facebook member's name to companies to track people by building databases of them. According to Fred Dutton (2010) found out a report by Wall Street Journal saying that all the games in Facebook such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and the others are the applications that gather personal information and sell information to advertising and internet. This somehow have bring issues to the society. Dr Shock (2010) stated that the danger of facebook are identity theft and threats to personal safety which are like stalking, or threatening. Therefore, personal data is very important and we all shall protect it together. Geoff Duncan (2010) reported that European Commission an organization has drafted the data protection policies as this can be concerned for the issue cased by Facebook for breaching privacy. Other than the data protection policies, we as a facebook user should know how to protect our privacy rights as well. Kurt Opsahl (2010) to protect out privacy is to customize privacy settings which is the most protective option. Other than that, ethical publishing is also important in Facebook because Chroman Bier (2010) stated that ethical publishing in social networking is to share messages and not to encourage spamming. Overall, I think that privacy is important even though social networking is to make connections with people but we have to be smart to protect ourselves too to avoid our personal information got track by advertisers or any other people easily because it is our rights and ethical publishing in social networking is also required because it is related to privacy protection too which is should not breach about people's personal information using social networking because it is not ethical!

References

ABC News, 2010, Facebook admits privacy breach, viewed 10 November 2010,

Bier, C 2010, Ethics in social network marketing, Ezinemark.com, viewed on 10 November 2010, http://business.ezinemark.com/ethics-in-social-network-marketing-16c7aef674c.html

Duncan, G 2010, EU outlining personal data protection rules, viewed 10 November 2010, http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/eu-outlining-personal-data-protection-rules/

Dutton, F 2010, Facebook game shut for privacy breach, viewed 10 November 2010,http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-10-18-facebook-games-shut-for-privacy-breach

Opshal, K 2010, How to protect your privacy on facebook places, viewed 10 November 2010, http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/how-protect-your-privacy-facebook-places

Shock, D 2010, The Danger of Facebook, viewed 10 November 2010, http://www.shockmd.com/2010/01/04/the-dangers-of-facebook/