COMM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Instant Messaging, Information Seeking, Media Multitasking
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Possible categories of new comm effects: social connection, psychological well-being, political/personal expression, physical health. The internet: tons of new communication paths: Social networks: use of internet results in media multitasking. Has negative effects on efficiency: top 3 internet activities: sns, online games, email, quarter of time spent online by americans is on sns and blogs. Blogging: ordinary people have access to express themselves through blogs. Form and maintain community forums: compared to traditional blogging, microblogging ffocuses much more on interactivity, engagement, and conversations, twitter is main example of microblogging. Information sources: people with a large group of followers (ex. Information seekers: those who log on to read things but rarely poist. Twitter is used as a news source; users can select accounts they are interested in following. Frequently used by young voters as source of political news; twitter allows public to communicate to government directly. Asynchronous: communication over a period of time and places.