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Media convergence has completely changed American culture. It has led to the creation of what is now being referred to as the New Media.
According to Wikipedia most technologies described as "new media" are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulated, networkable, dense, compressible, interactive and impartial. However, new media does not necessarily apply to television programs, feature films, magazines or books, unless they contain technologies that enable digital interactivity.
With the evolution of new media it has changed the way we receive and process our information. A major news story can be seen in print, online, on television and heard on the radio. The end user can leave comments, interact with the accompanying graphics, and view a slideshow of the pictures and then it will more than likely be tweeted a million times.
Social media is comprised of Internet forums, web blogs, social blogs, micro blogging, wikis, podcast, pictures sites, video tube sites, rating sites, and social bookmarking. Social Media sites like Blog Talk Radio allow me to have my own radio show and upload the episodes to podcast. Listeners of my show have the option of listening live, posting comments on my live chat room or simply downloading archived shows.
I also use YouTube to promote my website as well as drive traffic to my landing page. Many of my YouTube videos are slide show that I produce with the use of Flicker.com and Photo Bucket. I just wanted to include a few personal real life applications of social media that I currently use.
I feel the greatest benefit of social media is its ability to connect people in a way that was impossible only 20 years ago. Social Media has truly created a world forum in which you can now communicate with people all around the world. Blogging sites have allowed internet audiences to voice their opinions on everything from celebrity news to Presidential Elections.
Social Media has even played a major role in political protest such as what we witness in 2009 in Iran. Many voters in Iran felt that the election results were flawed so many of them posted their protest on social networking sites like Twitter. Because of social media the world has now become a global village.
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