New Media

    Blogs and wikis are very useful in our life, because they allow you to teach and learn context, support dialogue between people, provide a space for collaboration and chronicling your and others reflections.        Blogging is about sharing of useful information in different ways. These can be articles, videos, images and infographics. It’s possible to mix the content and in a lot of cases the content you are sharing on a blog is time-sensitive (yet, we doesn’t exclude the possibility of evergreen content. Technically blog has a definite structure and there are a lot of tips to make it user-friendly, engaging etc. It’s possible to subscribe for the new blog post via email or RSS feed. Blogs can be formatted and allow the owner to provide different cool features to his blog visitors and subscribers.Wiki is also about sharing useful information, yet, this information is usually not time-sensitive. Technically Wiki uses a special markup and str...

  Young people tend to spend more time on social media than on the real life. In my project " Social Media: Better or Worse  than  the  Real Thing"  I am going to discuss the positive and negative  aspects of how social media influenced our lives,  changed  the ways we communicate, entertain and express ourselves and shaped people's perception of ourselves. In my  paper  I will  combine my personal experience with the scholarly research to analyse the topic deeper.

 Hello, my name is Olena Dobrosinska. I’m a senior majoring in Actuarial Science. I like math, traveling, reading books while I'm in subway and going to the gym. I created this blog, because the new media plays a key role in our society.