Fullwin Liang's New Media Blog

New media has a huge impact on social networking and there are a lot of benefits from social networking. Social networking allows for people to communicate efficiently. In less than one second, anyone is able to receive or send a message to one another. Anyone in society, whether business related or not, are able to connect to people all over the world through social media technologies such as Facebook. According to an article from Chicagotribune.com in 2013, it states that Facebook is, " The world's largest online social network, with more than one billion users."  In addition to this, Facebooks stock price was only 30 dollars. As time passed by, social media and social networking continued to rapidly  grow. In current day, Facebook is still the most used social media website with a stock price of over 190 dollars. You can view messages, photos, videos and even have a live video chat with almost anyone that is far from you in less than one second by using technologies li

Technology has been advancing the past decades and it is still advancing as I am currently typing up this blog post. Wikis and blogs are both useful platforms where we can gather useful information quickly and efficiently. All it takes is a few seconds and a few clicks on your mouse or phone to obtain these information. Back in the old days, when there wasn't access to internet, people would have to physically travel to the library to research on whatever they are researching. However, in current days, all you would need to do is wiki it online. This is effective because you are obtaining valuable information and it is efficient because it takes less than one second with the help of "CTRL + F" once you are in the wiki page of your needs. You cannot easily use "CTRL + F" to find what you are looking for in a physical encyclopedia. Wiki and blogs are similar in many ways. They both contain an endless amount of useful information for everyone with different needs

     I decided to work on an analysis of virtual reality (VR) to discover it's positive and negative effects on society because I've always had an interest in virtual reality. Personally, I feel that virtual reality will become one of the core components of new media as it becomes more technologically advanced. Virtual reality as of right now is not perfected yet, so there are a lot of room for this concept of VR to develop into something more advanced than ever. Even as of right now, the power of VR is capable of having many positive impacts on society. Some examples of positive effects would be on business advertisement, communication, education, traveling and experiencing many things virtually without having to be there physically. The list goes on, because there are just so many things to be explored with virtual reality and I plan to get into detail with each of these positive attributes of VR.  However, despite virtual reality being such a beneficial new media technology