LO2: Positives and negatives of social media and globalisation

Professional: 

- Can find people to hire.

- Fiverr

Personal: 

- Can find people with similar interests.


Positives:

Sharing of technology information

Financing personel and generational funding


Crowd funded projects:

Kickstarter

example of successful campaign:

Exploding kittens: raised $8,782,571

GoFundMe: No.1 Fundraising Platform for Crowdfunding

Ko-fi | Accept Donations and Memberships. No Fees!


Web-utopianism:

- Web Utopians: those who see online and social media technologies as a benefit to society. Media theorist David Gauntlett is a web utopian and believes that the geographical boundaries  are non-existent thanks to social media and connectivity


Connectivity of ideas?

- Digital trendsetting: PewDiePie

- Collaborative production: Cloud9

- Online UGC content: Spotify

- Video games: NRG

- Virtual environments: VR Chat

- Tutorials


Sharing of technology?

Howard Rheingold (1991) foresaw the sharing of technology, software, ideas and content and termed the phrase electronic agora.

this describes the online meeting spaces (forums and chatrooms) where people can discuss topics, ideas and ways to achieve collaboration of projects.

Discord, Reddit, Amino


Crowdfunding platforms:

Crowdfunding platforms (like kickstarter) are allowing creative users to gain funding to start projects thats they would never have been able to do previously.

Crowdsourcing is a scouring model in which individuals or organisations obtain personnel for projects and to collaborate on projects. 

Patreon, Fiverr, GoFundMe


The Long Tail Theory is a theory that can be used to describe the way in which new technologies have enabled audiences to have choice over the amount of media they can access. Not just mass/popular media. An example of a niche product would be a music artist such as GHOST, that follows a genre that does not follow mainstream standards, which may make it difficult for their songs to gain popularity and appear in stores as products.


Moral Panic is a theory that can be used to describe the way in which the mass media create folk devils out of products or groups of people.

An example of this would be Resident Evil 5, where there was a lot of discourse around whether the game was intentionally racist or not because of the enemies being the civilians of West Africa. 


Trolling / Cyberbullying: Selena Gomez explains how online bullying affects her, 'They want to cut to your soul' - ABC News




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