My second IS lesson

My second IS lesson is on the topics, the social impact of new media technologies, ethical issues on media usage and intellectual property and blog/website differences. ( www.webnewmedia.ning.com)

The first topic is the social impact of new media and techonologies. What is the impact of technology with us humans nowadays? Technologies are so advanced that it interacts with humans, using voice control, touch sensor, GPS tracker and other things you can think of. From all these technologies, we can have a lot of advantages. We can use internet to send messages to the person with just one click, rather than writing it on a piece of paper, put it in a envelope, and send it to the postman and let him do the rest. No, with technology we can say bye bye to the postman. But not everybody can afford the computer. But speaking of advantages, what are the DISADVANTAGES? As people rely more and more on the computer, they will become too close to it, some people can't even " live " without a computer. Let say, if there's a blackout on one continent, and every people on that continent rely on computers, wouldn't it be like " the end of the world"???? Moreover, people with improper sitting posture will result of backbone problem, and eyesight problem too. Speaking of technology, let's say about social impact. Technology does not only affects one person but the social community. How? We can use the connection to connect with friends and even chat with them. Like facebook, it lets other people connect with each other.

The second topic is on ethical issues on media usage Intellactual property. We all know what is COPYRIGHT. Copyright is a person's right of something, that means if he has the copyright of something, that thing or work belongs to him. If we copy someone's work, that would also result in stealing his work. The more worse situation is plagiarism: copying someone's work and pass it as your own, with no quotes or references. Sometimes, we could see that some CD stalls at night stalls sell CDs at a very low price. Actually they had abuse copyright. To copy something is very simple, just right click, copy and paste. But this would be unfair to those who put effort and work on it. Let's say, you done a really good story on your blog. The a few days later, you found someone posting the same thing as yours. How would you feel? Really unfair, right? That's why we should not copy other's work, even if you want to, seek permission, or just copy a trivial part of it.

Lastly, the differences of a blog and website. Which is better? Blog? Website? Well, in my opinion, both have advantages. Well, a blog has been easily arranged and you just need to modify it. But for a website, you need to know HTML and a lot more stuff, which you need to be skilful. But for the website, there are no limitations on what you want to put. A blog is easy to put gadgets, while the website you have to find gadgets which are only applicable for Websites. But if you have your own website, it would let poeple feel "wow he has a website of his own!" but if you have a blog, everybody can have the same domain on blogspot.com as yours.