Social Media and Pop Culture

Last blog post, I talked about how we are addicted to social media and
and for this blog post I'll talk about how those social media have a big impact on pop culture.

Almost every famous celebrities, artists, and politicians have websites linked to their twitter and facebook accounts.
Here's an good example of this:
http://www.celebritybase.net/Music/Singers_Songwriter

These social media sites allow them to communicate their fans.
Lady Gaga has 13,970,618 followers (more and more people are followig...!!) :0 :) :D

Using social media, they can let fans know of news, new songs, sale and many exciting information.
Also fans can post their comments, ask questions and so on.
Fans can enjoy listen to music, watch music videos, look at photos and many things... :)

Social media plays a big role in influencing pop culture because most people get information from it.

Here's another article about pop culture and social media:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1633143/american-idol-consolidates-singers-twitter-facebook-accounts.jhtml

social media-holic??

Can you go 24 hours without social media?

According to a study done at The University of Maryland, they found out that students are addicted to social media.

The participants were forced to go one entire day without media of any kind and then blog their feelings after 24 hours.

One student wrote:
“Texting and IM-ing my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort.
When I did not have those two luxuries, I felt quite alone and secluded from my life.
Although I go to a school with thousands of students, the fact that I was not able to communicate with anyone via technology was almost unbearable.”

At first, I thought that student exaggrated too much.
But last night, I left my i-phone on the train, and I was quite surprised how upset I was.
I felt lost and without a clue.

Very luckily, I was able to find my phone :) :D
But I realized how I depend on emails, and those social media to communicate with my friends.

Other studies show that time spent on social networking has doubled since 2007 as well.

These also show that we are addicted to social media:

Pop culture

POP CULTURE
(commonly known as pop culture) is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes,^[1] images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. (source by wikipedia)

Well, considering above, in my opinion I think pop culture is like anything  that most people like or doing.

Good examples are Facebook, Mixi, Twitter and so on.
Those are very popular for not only young people but slso other generation as well :)

Mouses

Engelbart invented the first computer mouse.

I rarely use a mouse but the other day I saw really cute computer mouses at Big Camera.
I searched the Internet and there are so many cute ones available :)

This is my favorite :)

It's sooooo tiny...:O

and more cute & funny mouse ... :)

computer mouse are developing as well :)



3 superheros - youtube video

I found good youtube videos and thought it might be a good idea to share it with you guys :)
It talks about three inventors, Vannevar Bush, Ted Neldon, and Doug Engelbart.
It's easy to understand and i hope you'll enjoy waching it :D

Here's youtube videos:
Part One:
A short narration of the three minds that theorized the workings of the modern computer. These three imaginative inventors are considered to be the godfathers of the modern day computer and therefore superheros in their own sense. There by deserving their own motion comic to relay their tale and contribution to a machine that has become part of our everyday lives.

Part 2:

Thank you for waching!

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Vannevar Bush

In his essay, "As We May Think", Bush talk about a theoretical machine called a "memex" that enhances human memory by allowing the user to store and retrieve documents linked by associations. This was very similar to what's known today as hypertext.
Many, such as Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart, were inflenced by his idea.

Ted Nelson

He is known for coining the term "hypertext". This was very similar to that envisioned by Vannevar Bush. Also, his biggest project, Xanadu, was to be a world-wide electronic publishing system that would have created a sort universal libary for the people.

Doug Engelbart

His famous invention is the computer mouse. Like Vannevar Bush, Engelbart wanted to use technology to augment human intellect.

Hello world

Hi everyone:)
This is to test my blog.