Thursday, August 28, 2014
Community
Dan Harmon, creator of the TV show Community, created an episode named "App Development". In this episode, Dan presented the effects of social media. Using a social media app, the characters of Community rated each other on there phones. The ones who got fives where the happy popular carefree people while the three or lower were the different uncool people. Another effect of it was addiction. People got addicted to using the apps and judging others around them. Like in real life, when people did (acted) nice or funny things, they where given a higher score. While the people who where different and true got a low rating and was treated like filth. People also did what ever they could to get a better rating. Things like lying or acting like it's there birthday to get accepted in society.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Is Bowling a sport or a game?
While they rarely admit as much, non-bowlers often take for granted that bowling is a sport.
Rich Carrubba, one of the 1.5 million bowlers in the world, teacher of the sport of bowling, and a former 10 year participant of the PBA tour, is a person who thinks bowling is a sport. He wrote that bowling was first counted as a sport when it was in the 1988 Olympics. That means that being the Olympics qualifies bowling "as a sport because of international athletic implications".
While they rarely admit as much, non-bowlers often take for granted that bowling is a sport.
Rich Carrubba, one of the 1.5 million bowlers in the world, teacher of the sport of bowling, and a former 10 year participant of the PBA tour, is a person who thinks bowling is a sport. He wrote that bowling was first counted as a sport when it was in the 1988 Olympics. That means that being the Olympics qualifies bowling "as a sport because of international athletic implications".
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Egypt
One implication of Dennis Baron's treatment of social networking is that it can be used as more then a way to contact your friends. It can also be used in a way to change the lives of others. In his blog, he showed that the use of social networks like twitter can be used to rally people in a country to help fight against them. In Reforming Egypt in 140 characters?, Baron informed us that the people in Cairo, Egypt, by the use of twitter, sent a messages to others which resulted in the eviction of president Hosni Mubarak. He showed that it was possible to use social networking to change the lives of others.
Change
Most people apparently assumes that the use of social networking is mostly for the use of keeping in touch with others. In his writing of the story in Small Change in the New Yorker, Gladwell wrote about how people have read thing on facebook and felt motivated to make a change in the world.
One implication of Dennis Baron's treatment of social networking is that it can be used as more then a way to contact your friends. It can also be used in a way to change the lives of others. In his blog, he showed that the use of social networks like twitter can be used to rally people in a country to help fight against them. In Reforming Egypt in 140 characters?, Baron informed us that the people in Cairo, Egypt, by the use of twitter, sent a messages to others which resulted in the eviction of president Hosni Mubarak. He showed that it was possible to use social networking to change the lives of others.
Change
Most people apparently assumes that the use of social networking is mostly for the use of keeping in touch with others. In his writing of the story in Small Change in the New Yorker, Gladwell wrote about how people have read thing on facebook and felt motivated to make a change in the world.
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