Marvin's Blog

Blogs and wikis were some of the first new media that began to grow since the start of the internet. Both allow users to write down information and make it public for others on the internet to go through it. Blogs, on the one hand, are a bit more personal. You can think of them as a personal webpage. On the other hand, wikis are more information-based and used to talk about a particular topic or area. Furthermore, wikis allow for multiple people to collaborate and work on a similar project. This can be great for companies or departments who have many people on it. Wikis can be seen as a grassroots project that people can contribute to, and blogs can be where you talk about a piece of work or topic that you're interested in. One particular blog site that I used to use a lot a few years back was Tumblr. Yahoo decided to buy them out. However, the company has seen its user growth flatten during the past few months, according to the article. What the company started to see is where

For my term project, I have decided to do my research on " Digital Natives: The Effects of New Media on the Youth." I will be discussing how the rise of the internet and new media has impacted the way Generation Z see themselves, the world around them, and their place in society. I've always been interested in learning how technology has changed the way we live nowadays, braking many traditions that would have never been thought possible. It's changed the way young folks view our economy, the way we interact with technology itself, and the impact we get to have on the world. I intend to cover their sociological perspective, technological perspective, as well as their anthropological perspectives. I will do so by conducting online research, reading scholarly papers on the topic, as well as current events demonstrating their attitudes for each category. I hope to point out how their feelings and emotions have changed compared to their older generations who did not grow

Hey, hey, hey! Guess who's here. I'm excited to finally have my own personal blog. I've been thinking about making one for a while now and that moment has finally arrived! How exciting, right?! I'll be keeping y'all posted with what comes next. In the meantime enjoy my assignments that I'm doing for one of my classes. TTYL, Marvin