Behind the Music

By Chidera Anyanwu
Upon researching on my topic of music and the web, I stumbled upon an interesting blog entry that focused on how music has changed throughout the years, based mostly on the accessibility of songs online. Downloading music is a major phenomenon in the US today. With millions of people in the United States [...]

Ebay to Etsy: Buy Handmade

By Paige Beaton
I recently came across an article on NYtimes.com called “Handmade 2.0“.  I had no idea what it was, so decided to skim a few lines of it to see what it was about.  On the website buyhandmade.org, people are invited to pledge to “buy handmade”.  This means that you will buy things that [...]

How the Internet Affects the Elections

By Alison Tierney
I found this article on the Harvard website and found it fascinating.
It closely examines the effects of the Internet on the 2004 election. What they didn’t approach though, was the idea that the Internet is still relatively new. Since the Internet began in the 1990s, it is important to realize that it is [...]

A television advancement or crisis?

By Denise Tran
Coming February 17, 2009, your television may stop working. Television stations that broadcast in analog will no longer work. There will be a switch from analog to digital broadcast television called the digital TV (DTV) transition. Analog TV’s technology has been used by U.S. television broadcasts since the 1940s. And digital TV [...]

Extreme Effects of Targeted Hate Blogs

By Melanie Hoffman
The popularity of blogs first appered with the rise of the Web 2.0. The first way I participated in the new generation of the internet was with a blog of my own, where I wrote about my life mainly for my friends. That was about 5 years ago. Now there are blogs for [...]

The New Facebook, Love it or Hate it?

By Giuseppe Verde
Over 100 million Facebook users panicked over the new “face lift” given to the popular website. What many believed to be a site that was a simple and convenient way to communicate with long lost friends or to find people with common interests, took a new turn two weeks ago when mandating all [...]

The Facebook for the CIA and FBI

By Zaid Shuhaibar
A new social networking website, know as A-Space, is stated to be launched on September 22nd for the use of the CIA and the FBI. A-Space will be used to share top secret information as well as opinions of those issues between intelligence personnel with the proper security clearance. The goal of this [...]

South Korea, above and beyond in ISPs, and cultural evolution?

By David Breneisen
For a while now, South Korea has been known for high speed bandwidth connections. It is also known for intense online gaming, which has become an integral part of its culture, and availability of HD video on demand through the internet. Many factors have played into South Korea’s success with broadband [...]

The Sims

By Taylor Gould
In class on Thursday, our class reviewed chapters 3, 4, and 5 in Jenkins’ Convergence Culture. Since Jenkins touches upon fan fiction and the new age of multiple media integration or “media convergence,” he thoroughly reviews the implications of what the Wachowskis attempted to do with The Matrix. Jenkins states that with the [...]

Google’s Advertisement Plan

By Maureen Monahan
The New York Times posted an article describing the positive effects Google’s business deal with NBC will have on the company. As described by Miguel Heft and Ben Stelter, the deal will allow Google to “have access to a small slice of the advertising inventory that brings in almost $6 billion a year [...]