According to Dictionary.com Socioeconomics means the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior. Then I looked up economics and according to Dictionary.com it says that it is the science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of humankind.
I had never thought of it that way, but it is true. We are becoming a very social society. I myself hardly watch TV anymore. As I use to watch it all the time. I like having a conversation with you on a one to one basis. I like finding what someone likes or dislikes. I guess that is how you befriend someone. It is how you connect with someone on any kind of relationship level. Whether it be a friendship, teacher, student, doctor, lover, etc?
I have heard of the idea that in the future products will find you and you will not be looking for the products. Although I might disagree a little about the statement "you will not be looking for products". It is hard to imagine not still looking for a product that perhaps a friend of yours has and you would like it for yourself. I think I mentioned this earlier that perhaps someday there might be a chip built inside of you that will send electronic messages to billboards and other advertisement means to gear towards your needs. For example I use yet again the example if you like strawberry ice cream perhaps ads about strawberry ice cream will appear. Perhaps something like strawberry bubblegum will appear or something similar to strawberry icecream.
My response to Broadcasting vs. Socialism is this … To me someone yelling their lungs out with a megaphone on top of a building is one sided or like TV is sort of one sided. It is the message transferring to a group of people, but there is no response back. But if you consider feedback in terms of emails received about a particular show then I would consider that to be Socialism.
Socialism to me is feedback and responding back and forth about something. Where as Broadcasting is one sided. It is making a public announcement to the universe. Sort of like the President coming on TV and announcing the Haiti earthquakes. We are not talking to the President back and forth about it. Although when two people talk about the President’s Speech about Haiti Earthquakes then I would consider that to be Socialism.
In response to the question; Why would you trust your friends over an advertisement? It is simple! In Advertising they often will lie about the product so that they sell it to you. In one of my former blogs I mention about the exercise industry. They try to sell you all of these phoney pills that claim to make you skinny, but they really don’t. They really don’t care as long as someone is buying the product. It is all about marketing and getting customers to buy their product. A friend’s opinion about the product is much more valuable. Why? Because in most cases they are users of the product. Basically, advertisements lie to sell the product. Friends are more likely to tell you the truth as what to do they have to gain to lie to you about a product? Why would they lie in the first place? If a friend lies to you than you have bigger problems I think. I might question then why are you friends with this person if they are going to lie to you. A real friend is someone you trust.
In response to the question; What is News? News to me is anything that is information about something. To me there is personal news like what is going on in your personal life and then there is worldly news like the earthquakes in Haiti that everyone is talking about. Is “I got up in the morning and did this today” news? I would say yes! It is not probably going to make the headlines in the newspaper, internet or TV, but it might make it to a few comments on some of the various social networks sites. If you were to say something on twitter; Would it be considered News? Yes, would be my response once again. If someone is interested in what you are doing they are the recipients of the news. You are giving that information about what you are doing.
If you look it up at Dictionary.com the definition of News you will receive the following.
1.
a report of a recent event; intelligence; information: His family has had no news of his whereabouts for months.
2.
the presentation of a report on recent or new events in a newspaper or other periodical or on radio or television.
3.
such reports taken collectively; information reported: There's good news tonight.
4.
a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material. Compare copy (def. 5).
In my opinion, I think we are becoming Movie Stars or famous people! We have our own poporotizi or fans! What I mean by that is our so called friends on many of the social networks are interested in what we are doing. So perhaps you are not a singer or a movie star, but people are into your life and what you have to say. I know in some cases many people are always interested in what I have to say. I seem to have a very creative and thoughtful mind. Some people seem to be attracted to that. Not to sound vain or anything, but usually people are attracted to good looking people. Now you might say what is a good looking person? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is my response to that question. But, perhaps the magazines sitting on the newsstands actually tell us what is beautiful and what is not.
Does News have to be an impact? All news is an impact whether it be big or small in my opinion. If a person is reading it, it will create some sort of feeling inside. To me any information at all given and someone receives it is news. News for you could be taken as what interest do you have? I know myself I am more likely to read something if I am interested in the subject matter. If I am not interested I find it very boring. I know in school they would give us all of these text books and things of which I was not interested. I sometimes would fall asleep while reading it. Why? Because my brain wants to shut off. It is just not interested and therefore just does not want to comprehend it.
In response to Wikapedia, trust issues, and editng content and is it like a newspaper? I would have to agree with all of the statements made during class. I would say if you are not really sure if it actually the truth or if it is accurate I would say get a second opinion. Much like if your doctor would say you had cancer you could always ask another doctor and they might say something completely different. The beauty of the net is that there are so many sites doing the same things. I am sure there are other sites that act much like Wikapedia and you could verify the information. If you have found the information to be the same on different sources than my conclusion would be this must be right.
What is society and being social? For me society is the people and world in which we live in today. Being social is just that being social and talking to other people. It is called networking in the business world. Sometimes it is not what you know, but who you know.
Being Social and Being Public is about the same thing as Broadcasting vs. Socialism. Broadcasting and being Public about something are really the same things. Being Social and Socialism are the same things as well. Being Social interprets a response or interaction between two people or groups of people. Public is one sided. It is kind of like a dictatorship. The news on TV for example is being Public. I cannot talk back to the person on TV. Well I could but that person is not going to hear what I have to say. LOL
In my opinion; “Will you be my acquaintance?” does not sound as good as; “Will you be my friend?” It just sounds more like you want to connect with that person or reach out. Acquaintance almost sounds like you are stuck up and have no desire to get to know me. I guess what I am saying is the word “friend” sounds friendlier.
I looked this up at Dictionary.com
1.
a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
2.
a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends of the Boston Symphony.
3.
a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe?
4.
a member of the same nation, party, etc.
5.
(initial capital letter ) a member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker.
In response to the Promo for on-line advertisement video we watched in class and is that advertising? I would say yes! The video seems very believable. It makes a connection with what I already know about the net and the world in which I live in today. It is very persuasive and I think it does a good job with its message. In a sense I think it plays on some ideas of what most people already know. Are the percentages accurate? Well perhaps the percentages are not accurate, but it is very believable. It just doesn’t sound very farfetched in my opinion.
Is Google God? Being at a Christian stand point No! Google is Not God. Being at student of study and working in the field of New Media I would say yeah Google could be considered a God. However I would call it more of a medium tool. It allows you to search for just about any answer. I use it a lot for tutorials on how to do something. Especially for certain pieces or gimmicks in software or for coding purposes.
What did we do before Youtube.com? My response is we use to have a thing called VHS tapes. We would have our own libraries of videos. We would just watch them or perhaps a friend would have a video and we watch it. We also had video rental stores, much like we have Family Video today. But, instead of DVDs, we had VHS tapes. I could then see before than we had the TV and then even before then we had the radio. Two things come to my mind when I think of radio back in the days before TV would be the movie Annie and the TV series the Waltons. My mom was always crazy over the Walton series and it is how I got my middle name Jason. I was a kid during the 1980s. I remember going to the drive-in movies to see the movie Annie. We even had a field trip in school where we seen Annie. Beef & Boards Recently had the play Annie last year. What I am remembering is the part where Daddy Warbucks does a Radio announcement that they are trying to find Annie’s real parents. I also remember from the Waltons the Waltons family sitting around the radio listening to it much like the familes later did with TV.
I think in response to writing, video, scrolls going to books than now to the Kindel DX device on Amazon and also with the iPad that apple is introducing these are all methods in which to store information. I think that was the whole point of bringing up the subject. I think it doesn’t matter what you use I think humans all through history have had a desire to record information or to archive it for future use. Humans study history. My cousin the other day wrote her grocery list down and brought it in to show me while I was at work one day. In Business, it is often important to store data for future use. A company could look back upon the last year and try to use that information to make improvements for the following year.
My fear is if we go with more of an electronic way of storing materials will we lose it if say the power would go out? What happens when a major disaster happens? At least with things written on stone or on paper it is most likely going to last to be shown to future generations. How do you think we know so much about the Egyptians? We have studied the paintings on the walls of the Pyramids that they left for us. But, What if society no longer writes anything down on paper and we go to archiving all information by electronic means? Well as long as we have electronic devices and power to view the content I do not see a problem. I am just wondering though if we were to have a major disaster that wipes out electronic devices; how would we recover that data? How would future generations know what happened in the year 2010 for example?
My point is we may lose our history if it is not written down. Lets look at history before things were written down. Are we becoming a society once again that does not write anything down permanently for the next generation to see? Haven’t you ever heard of the expression nothing is set in stone? Stone is permanent or will last a long time, much like the bones of dinosaurs are left behind to prove that there were these creatures that lived 50 million or billion years ago.
The movie Time Machine comes to my mind in lot of these ideas. The new one, not the old one. I looked it up and it came out around December 2001 or around 2002. It was a huge hit! I remember going to see it with some friends when it first came out. That movie speaks to me! It is about this guy who wants to go back in time to save his girlfriend. No matter what he does she always dies. Which goes to show it was meant for her to die. If you recall the future people in the movie blew up the moon and that actually caused a major disaster causing an evolution in people. It caused an evolution into two different species. One lives above ground and the other lives below ground. My point is that they actually did not know the world of today. The only thing left were stones. They didn’t even know the English language or how to read it. They even had this one guy that was actually a computer stuck in some mirrors or glass at the library from a short not too distant future accusation. Anyway my point is we may be sent back to prehistoric times if technology fails.
What if we lose our electricity? Books do not require electricity. What will we leave people of the future? How will we be perceived by people of the future? How will they learn about the world of today? How will the 21st Century play out? If you will notice that the 20th century is very different from the beginning to the end of the century. Rapid change in technology advances happened. Much of the way of Pop-Culture changed as well. My prediction is that the 21st century will evolve in the very same way. We have already experienced the 1st decade of the 21st Century. What will the next decade bring? The 2010s? Then even the decades ahead! 2020s? 2050s? 2070s? 2090s? Only Time will Tell! Time has always been a fascination of mine.
What are your thoughts?
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