haha i know that this blog is already so over, but i came across this video that i had to share!
what's more, it reminded me of what else but precious COM101
haha.
"Just got to work!"
"Sitting on my chair now!"
HAHA.
Obama used twitter for his presidency campaign and many celebrities are using Twitter for an even more "up close and personal" feel with their fans, like Ellen Degeneres, Stephen Fry and Britney Spears..yes Spears!
Twitter is another form of social networking and communication means in the WORLD WIDE web world. But like this video suggests, we may just be randomly shouting out into the darkness and it is not a true form of communication with friends.
hmm twitter. although i think it really takes another step into airing our private lives in public, i might just hitch onto this twitter wave if it hits us big. one day.
i think i may even be quite a twitter girl.
after all, just like the video suggests: I HAVE NO FRIENDS! *terror-stricken* nooooooooooooo!
Showing posts with label WWW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWW. Show all posts
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Same country, different culture.
Say the phrase World Wide Web and many things would come to mind.
Blogs (like this), news, social networks, internet chat-rooms, online gaming, marketplace, job search, grocery shopping, photo-editing, Skype, meetings, the list of convenience it has brought to our lives is inexhaustible.
Yet, mention WWW and people would think "vices" as well. After all, the world wide web is free for all - people of all ages, race or religion..as long as you have a computer and internet access that is. We have long heard of the easy access to pornography, the dangers of the internet chat-room, people dying from gaming day and night without food or sleep, another endless list that comes with the boon of the internet.
However, putting good and bad aside, the internet has definitely brought globalisation to a whole new level! World Wide Web as the name suggests has almost erased all national boundaries and most importantly brought about cultural imperialism.
Just take a look at the youtube (another one of those famous www inventions!) video above. I know you must be laughing, but in your opinion, do you think such behaviour would have been laughed at generations before us? Yes, an example of cultural imperialism is as such. The kind of information that the youths are being exposed to inadvertently effects the culture of our generation today. From our lifestyles to our beliefs, we have been largely influenced especially by the West. (Think Hollywood fashion trends and how premarital sex is glorified in MTVs.) Slowly we do see the youths of today are moving away from the jaded traditions of our elders to embrace such cultures.
Then there's also the people who swoon over the Japanese culture. This would never have been encouraged in the past (especially thanks to WWII in Singapore!). The availibility of Jap anime and being able to travel around the world without having to leave our seats has just contributed to this craze. Examples of the jap culture seen in Singapore would be Cosplay, japanese fasion and a rather large number of students taking up the Japanese language, just to name a few.
Cultural Imperialism usually happens because the more countries like the US have a vast mass media market that penetrates even the WWW thus dominating the scene of the media market. Whether this phonomena is good or bad, it really depends.
Blogs (like this), news, social networks, internet chat-rooms, online gaming, marketplace, job search, grocery shopping, photo-editing, Skype, meetings, the list of convenience it has brought to our lives is inexhaustible.
Yet, mention WWW and people would think "vices" as well. After all, the world wide web is free for all - people of all ages, race or religion..as long as you have a computer and internet access that is. We have long heard of the easy access to pornography, the dangers of the internet chat-room, people dying from gaming day and night without food or sleep, another endless list that comes with the boon of the internet.
However, putting good and bad aside, the internet has definitely brought globalisation to a whole new level! World Wide Web as the name suggests has almost erased all national boundaries and most importantly brought about cultural imperialism.
Just take a look at the youtube (another one of those famous www inventions!) video above. I know you must be laughing, but in your opinion, do you think such behaviour would have been laughed at generations before us? Yes, an example of cultural imperialism is as such. The kind of information that the youths are being exposed to inadvertently effects the culture of our generation today. From our lifestyles to our beliefs, we have been largely influenced especially by the West. (Think Hollywood fashion trends and how premarital sex is glorified in MTVs.) Slowly we do see the youths of today are moving away from the jaded traditions of our elders to embrace such cultures.
Then there's also the people who swoon over the Japanese culture. This would never have been encouraged in the past (especially thanks to WWII in Singapore!). The availibility of Jap anime and being able to travel around the world without having to leave our seats has just contributed to this craze. Examples of the jap culture seen in Singapore would be Cosplay, japanese fasion and a rather large number of students taking up the Japanese language, just to name a few.
Cultural Imperialism usually happens because the more countries like the US have a vast mass media market that penetrates even the WWW thus dominating the scene of the media market. Whether this phonomena is good or bad, it really depends.
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