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Creativity and New Media

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How to create bitmoji? To create your own bitmoji character, you’ll need to download the bitmoji app (you can download it for free from the App Sore on IOS or the google play store for Android.) Once you’ve downloaded it, open the app. You can sign in with your snapshot account if you have one or tap sign up with an email. Now it’s time to create your avatar, to make it easier to make your avatar look like you, you can snap a quick selfie for side-by-side comparison. Center you face in the circle, then tap the camera icon below to take a picture, now in creating your avatar you’ll see your selfie on the left. The first step to making a bitmoji is to choose a skin tone, next you customize your hair starting with color and then choose a hairstyle (you can customize the hair further with hair treatment like highlights or amber.) Now it's time to work on your bitmoji face starting with eye, once you decided on an eye shape you can add eye color, eyelashes, change the size of th...

Creativity

The new media have created an excessive way for us to foster our creativity. Besides, the internet has allowed more people to perform and share their creative acts (Chairperson). Because we have this incredible immersive experience on the internet, we can find so many ways to be creative and find things online that helps us to enhance that process. For example; learning groups, numerous institutions help students to start building learning groups as a method to learn, share projects, and discuss assignments. Work Cited Reiff, Chairperson. “Bell_ku_0099M_13626_DATA_1.Pdf.” Google , Google, 2014, docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiYXJ1Y2huZXdtZWRpYXxneDo0MDAyMGU5N2I1N2JjNDRj.

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

Virtual Reality is a world that is not real, but entirely computer created based on 3-dimensional platform. The virtual world can be viewed as to a second-life, where avatars do the kind of stuff real people do in real life. Second Life is a multi user virtual environment, a computer program that lets online users construct settings and hang out with them, using video-game-like characters called avatars (Saki Knafo). Second life becomes a reality, but there are some Pros and Cons of it. Pros: More control: virtual worlds are far better than reality because in VR user are the controller. Education: virtual reality advantages to train people in various fields, such as in military, education and health care. It adds the more dimensions in various fields and a better vehicle for cognitive learning due to the extent of information, low cost, and convenience (Guy Posey). Creating Connections : virtual reality provides the ventures to communicate with the people all round the worl...

Blog: Social networking sites

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Facebook have the largest audience and most popular social media platform. In Facebook, users allow to post pictures, videos, talk with their friends and make group communication. Instagram interaction is more related to photos and video with a caption. Twitter allows users to post status to up to 280-character long, and users interact with each other with a message knows as “tweets.” Snapchat  is a 24- hour post of a picture or video which is available with a filter. People network with each other thru a picture or via video message.

Blog about Twitter

There is a limited difference between Twitter and Blackboard, the major one which is Twitter only allows you to use up to 280 characters  long, while  blackboard lets you to use as many characters as you would like. It  has made  a huge difference since only allowing limited characters to express communication. Another change is twitter lets the  users'  network more than blackboard does, for  example, it  lets you retweet things where blackboard doesn’t give you that option. In-class discussion is different from twitter and  blackboard  since there is  a limitation  of  enrollment . The in class discussion are face-to-face where twitter and  blackboard  are online. But online network allows people time to response nothing less in-class discussions are immediate response with spotting body languages.

Social Networking

The social network has impacted our lives, as a culture and as individuals.  We interconnect differently, view information contrarily and formed an opportunity for people to connect in a way they never have before. For instance, LinkedIn is one of the vast proficient networks and a platform used by business minded people. "Social networking technology is absolutely the best thing to happen to recruiting – ever (Frank Langfitt)." LinkedIn is an invaluable tool in this modern society, where you can promote yourself or your business. There is an incredible opportunity for people to connect and get a job offer in a way they never have before. As social networks incessantly invade the internet, there are privacy concerns on the user’s acceptance of social networking sites. “Privacy is a moving target (Peter S. Fader).” Privacy on social media is often about regulatory the information that you share and who has access to what you are sharing. Users think they are protected and...