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How new media fosters creativity ? As mentioned in our lecture: "Digital media represents a profound change from previous media forms." Digitization is to New media what computer is to internet. Today, in this digitization era, most people own a device enabling to create media, or to create contents. Software application like TikTok has the mission to capture and present the world's creativity, knowledge, and precious life moments. Therefore contributes to fostering people's creativity. Through TikTok, a lot of people are going viral thanks to the power of their creativity. Social media can foster creativity in the sense that people are not ashamed or scared to be judged since they can hide behind the avatar. Usually, creativity suffers from the fact that people mixed up the individual to the art produced. You can like a song and not necessarily like the author. Therefore, hiding behind an avatar, the risk to be biased is reduced and that represents a safe spo...

Cooking is a passion my wife and I share. On the weekends, we usually cook recipes from our home country - Cote d'Ivoire. Recently, we created an Instagram page where we share pictures of the food we cook. The main goal is to use food to introduce people to our culture. For us, it is a good way to stay connected with our roots and also meet people who are familiar with our background or interested in learning more about it. In our culture, Food is very important since it is the main attraction of all festivities (with dance and music of course).  Sharing a homemade dish is the way to share conviviality and show people you are happy to have them around. Adiala means in our dialect - It was good - to say the food was good. This is something you would say to show respect to the cook and thank her/him for the dish. We share pictures, as well as videos and recipe cards. Here a screenshot of the page. You can find us on Instagram @adiala_ivorian_cuisine . Cheers!!!!!

Virtual worlds enabled the expansion to Work at Home capabilities in diverse industries. Since Virtual Worlds allows to recreate an office setting online, employees do not necessarily need to be physically present to a meeting and collaborate on these online platforms. As stated in Mark Tutton (Going to life in Virtual office in Second Life, CNN), companies have the ability to provide a high level of security to those systems and not jeopardize their privacy, therefore, more and more companies may take advantage of these technologies. Additionally to video conferencing, we also have available VPN (Virtual Private Network) technology which allows an employee to work from any location on the company network. This is one of the most secure and effective way to work remotely. The employee has access to all the systems and platforms of the company even when he is not in the office improving productivity and ensure the security of the company data. This technology is very useful and helpful ...

Facebook vs Twitter vs Instagram vs Linkedin As a Millenial, I can totally understand that every social media has its use even if sometimes they overlap. We have so many choices now of platforms that we just use different ways or stick to the only one that we understand the purpose. Facebook as the first platform I personally joined. Facebook represents the  " family reunion" in a sense where you will probably add there your real-life family and friends, the cousin that leaves in Montana and the high school friend who moved to California. It is a place where you usually interact with people you actually know but are far geographically. Since you have your family members on Facebook, posts can sometimes be very polished. Also, people are used to long posts on Facebook compared to other platforms. One new functionality of Facebook very interesting is the groups - that are usually a group of people interesting in the same subject interacting in a closed environment. Ot...

How does a Twitter discussion compare to a BlackBoard Discussion? To an in-class discussion? A twitter discussion is limited to 140 characters per tweet. Usually, this constraint makes the author of a tweet go straight to the point. Also, the use of Hashtags allows following discussions about a topic even if you do not know the authors. Everybody talking about a subject will just #topic to their tweet and everybody around the world can see it and interact. The diversity of users on twitter creates a huge variety of topics discussed there. You can find discussions about food, lifestyle to scholars talking about scientific findings. A blackboard discussion is in an academic setting therefore the scope of the topics discussed is already limited. Users on blackboard usually are in the same class and may meet each other in real life. This can lead to people not being honest in what they share if they don't want to be judged. Blackboard is more a collaboration tool and will encour...

The basis of blog social networking is to connect. It is a means, a media that is used to share a content, whether an experience, an idea or a passion. In doing so, a purposeful relationship can potentially be established and nourished overtime. It is a way to send a message, a way to educate, a way to express one's opinion about a specific topic, a way to give back to the community etc... Some benefits of these technologies are the financially affordable aspect, the scalable aspect, and eventually the potential to go beyond and generate sales out of your audience. For example, according to the New York times article about how Obama tapped into social networks' power, “Thomas Jefferson used newspapers to win the presidency, F.D.R. used radio to change the way he governed, J.F.K. was the first president to understand television, and Howard Dean saw the value of the Web for raising money,” said Ranjit Mathoda, a lawyer and money manager who blogs at Mathoda.com. “But Senator Ba...