The language of internet memes

Internet meme is regarded as a phenomenon that somebody or something is spread widely through internet within a short time so that make them famous to the public. These things can be spread to all round the world within a few days and known by the worldwide public. This special phenomenon can be attributed to the specification of Internet. Internet can spread information rapidly to the whole world and provide people with a platform to share and absorb information which they are interested in. Internet memes become famous to the mass within a while, however it can lose their concern by people during the same time, such as a Romania popular song “Dragostea Din Tei”. What is ‘Dragostea din tie’

Here’s an interesting  video about internat memesAlison Brie Imitates Popular Internet Memes

Internet memes exist in the form of images, hyperlinks, music, websites, video, and so on. Sometimes it can be only a spelling error of a word or a phrase. They are often spread via e-mail, blog, social network, and news report. Currently, internet memes can be used as cost-effective tools of advertising. Specialists of public relationship and advertising are often promoting their products and services with internet memes which is very practical and economical.

Nowadays social networks play a significant role in the spread of internet memes. The young are prone to share interesting information and search attractive information in the internet. Most of them have created an account in social network, such as Facebook, to release the interesting photos, video, news, or any other attractive things to their friends. Normally attractive things will be shared by friends and spread them to more people, which lead to internet memes. Spread of information via social network is convenient and rapid. Therefore, social networks are considered significant media for internet memes.

Humor is regarded as an important element for modern internet memes. Humorous things are much easier to attract people’s concern. People are willing to share humorous things with others and make their life more enjoyable. Humorous things make people happy and are easily remembered by people. Few modern internet memes are about boring and tedious things. Most of internet memes are related to entertainment which can result in happiness for human beings. Moreover, shock-value is another significant element for modern internet memes. Few internet memes are created without shock-value. People are easily attracted their attentions to those things with huge shock-value. They believe those things are rare and attractive in their daily life and easily make deep expression for human beings which are regarded as a prerequisite of internet memes.

Modern internet memes are transmitted mainly by adolescent or post- adolescent. They are interested in modern and fashion items. They are prone to be attracted by interesting and abnormal things. Once an abnormal and attractive thing or person are found by adolescent or post-adolescent, rapid transmit can be seen through various media, such as social networks, e-mail, and video.

Internet memes have a great influence on advertisement market. It is regarded as an cost-effective method to promote the product or service. Because of the rapid and wide spread of internet memes, the advertising combining with internet memes have great outcomes for promotion of product or service comparing with normal advertising. Therefore, an increasing number of staffs who specialize in public relation and advertising focus on the study of internet memes. They hope to take advantage of internet memes to promote their product and service. Simultaneously, they try to create some new internet memes for business purpose to promote better their product and service.

Recently, there are plenty of internet memes appearing on the internet. One of the most famous internet memes is Lolcats. Lolcats is an image of lovely cat with odd or amusing caption which is very prevalent in many social networking sites and is extremely popular with children.

From my point of view, internet memes will become increasingly prevalent in our daily life and it will have significant influence on spread of amusing information and some news with huge shock-value.

how social media impact on organizations

Social media is social interaction of media, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques. Social media is use Web-based and mobile technologies into an interactive dialogue and communication. (Flew, T 2005)

Social Media common tools include Wikis, Blogs, Social Network Service, RSS, Presence and Microblogging, Social Bookmarking and Tagging, online Photo and Video Sharing, etc.

Social media is give organizations a great space to participate in new online media, it has the following features:

1 Participation: Social media can inspire staff interested in actively contribute and feedback, which blurs the boundaries between employee and employer；

2 Open: Most of the social media are free to participate, they encourage customers to give comment, feedback and sharing of information.

3 AC: traditional media adopt the “broadcast” form, content transmitted from the media to the users, one-way flow. The advantage of social media is the way communication between organizations and consumer, which formed a kind of exchange;

The impacts on organization and consumers:

Related recourses: 5 Ways Social Media Will Change The Way You Work in 2013 How social media can impact business

A related video Impact of Social Media on Business

Social media can promote the transparency of corporate information. Social media can promote spirit of collaboration of enterprise，allowing all companies and organizations are able to be in the public’s supervision.

Before integration with social media，large enterprises is difficult to interact with the users, it can not get feedback. After Integration with social media, the users can direct corporate executives. In addition, all companies face environmental problems, product standards，rights of consumers and employees and other issues, they have to be more careful.

Social Media can improve product quality. Social media can let all consumers give comments and criticism of products, so manufacturers must have excellent quality products. The vendors with bad product quality will be exposed. The presence of Social media makes excellent products can get their users’ pursuit.

Social media can provide excellent customer service channels. We can see Virgin America (Virgin America) is how to use of Twitter bars. If your flight is a problem, you can use Twitter to ask Virgin’s customer service staff to help. This service has a strong forward-looking.

Social media can create products that consumers really need For example, Starbucks, Dell and Procter & Gamble have adopted this model, listening to user input and feedback, and to create better products.

Consumers can control their own social relationships. You can choose to follow employees of Intel or Ford, and whether you want to join a community with them is entirely up to you.

Free contact with large enterprises. Enterprises to establish a platform for Web sites and services are usually to make money and build business, but most of them are free and open to users. In many cases, these services are relying on advertising and sponsorship fees in the form to get the revenue.

Large enterprises can borrow social media provides interesting information. If some of the brand hopes to publish video through social platforms and done right, then the consumer can derive information. Such as Coca-Cola was posted on the company history in his blog and posted Nike soccer video on YouTube.

Users can dominate the content and interactive. Many social media exchanges are related with large enterprises, which is not surprising.  Large organizations have been involved in a real social media.

Interpersonal dialogue is always great, the next you never know what it will turn the topic. Social media also makes a lot of drawbacks exist.

All in all, organizations should interrelate with customers, potential customers and business partners should interrelate，share and grow together. Therefore, a sincere and open attitude is important to use social media. Compared to the company, potential customers will trust your current customers more than company, and now they are using social media tools to communicate with each other。

References:

Flew, T 2005. New media: An introduction. South Melbourne, Vic.; New York: Oxford University Press.

Changing media with Mobiles

Have you ever wondered about the relationship between mobile phones and social media? The mobile web is growing at an exponential rate, and this trend shows no signs of slowing down. This graphic illustrates the rates at which people access the mobile, social web, as well as what they do once they are connected.

A video about how mobiles changing social media:

How mobile is changing social media

Mobile phones are playing vital role in social media. Now its very easy to check my Facebook profile and updates on a Phone. people are more likely to connect each other via social media through mobile technology.  Thanks mobile company’s to give us the opportunities. Nowadays we cannot think a man without mobile phone. it make a vital roll in our social media community. Mobile phones play a maximum role on our social media. Because every man have a phone to communicate to everyone.  Mobile phones are playing great role in social media. as we all know that in our latest technology some mobile phones can now be a bridge fro using it on our business. mobile marketing could be considered now as an important role for business.Every one has a mobile phone which provides on the go information. There it seem automatic that marketers look towards mobile marketing to target on the go clientele.

Mobile phones are changing social media by bringing in the notion of location to our networked communication with friends, family, and customers. The business opportunities as well as spin-off social apps are tremendous and surely lucrative. which also means that Mobile is changing the way we think about what we do. Mobile is changing the way we think about what we do

Mobile Phones, and Smartphones in particular, are changing the way we will do many things, from accessing Social Media sites, to augmented reality, to instant purchases, photography, music, the list goes on. With mobile phone technology capable of doing multiple tasks, rivaling basic notebooks in computing power, it is safe to say the mobile web is part of the continuing evolution of the WWW, and as usage patterns become common knowledge, having a mobile web accessible website will be essential.

I think Social Media Sites are the only type of Sites that you can look at on a Mobile. I have tried Opera Mini instead of my default Browser but most of the time is just not the Same looking at most websites in a small screen.

The mobile phone is no longer just a personal telecommunications device, it is a window to multiple social spaces that are constantly in flux. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter are accessed throughout the day by mobile users, as they tune in to their different networks and share updates and images.

The mobile phone has been undergoing a transformation in the world: calling people is no longer its primary function. It has gradually become a powerful social portal that alters how we make and consume media.

Mobile is now being used tactically to gain traction for other, traditional media, and conversely, campaigns are designed so that their traditional media points to or provides ways to access mobile assets.  for example, a well-designed augmented reality app that lets users point their phones at print media, and then delivers engaging, interactive video content.

Mobile is an intrinsic part of closing the loop of consumer engagement, traditional means do no justice to the contribution of brand engagement via social networks, or the top-of-mind awareness generated by viral video sharing. It’s clear that these activities are definitely part of the engagement process.

It may be that it is time for us to change the way that we think about communication itself. The traditional ways has already been blurred by social media, and more and more mobile activity blends utility and entertainment while removing the hard sell. Mobile is challenging the norms of the communications.

It’s no secret that mobile phones, tablets, and other transportable devices have infiltrated our lives including at work. Mobile phones and tablets have and will continue to shape and change the future of our work, and they way we engage, relate, and work at work. As mobile and social platforms continue to expand, giving options are sure to become more plentiful and creative.

How social media is changing journalism

With development of communication technology, it allows people to connect with anyone around the world, therefore, citizens can get and post information in everywhere. After all, production of news is no longer limited to journalists, which is resulting in a very different with before. Thus, Social media has played an important role in changing the way we get our news, with events being reported as they’re happening.

The impact of social media was in long term. Some main media are adopting social media especially with twitter and blogging. New agencies don’t have their own news anymore. Therefore citizen journalism is everything (Radsch, C 2011)

Richard Sambrook, the director of the BBC Global News Division, said that the impact of social media was overestimated in the short term and underestimated in long term. Mainstream media are adopting social media especially with blogging and twitter, he admited, but nobody discusses the effects on the long term.How social networking is changing journalism

During some events, the bystanders can take photos and videos, and quick to pull out their camera phones, they all can rapidly became citizen journalists. In many areas, most-read headlines featured on major news networks were sourced from citizens. With the social media tools, people can do easier than journalists or news agencies to give news. They can taking thousands of  photos and videos every day.

For example, seconds after the first bomb exploded at the 2013 Boston marathon, social media erupted. In minutes, media giants like The Boston Globe were harvesting content from thousands of sources on the ground; verifying and broadcasting information at unprecedented rates. The ensuing manhunt led to the most profound example how social media is altering the face of journalism. Four Ways Social Media is Changing Journalism

A video about ‘Impact of Social Media on Journalism’

Therefore, Social media is making journalists redundant. People don’t want know-it-alls telling them what they should think or what matters. They can now make up their own minds and get what they need through the web without layers of reporters and editors skewing the process.

 

Even today, most reporters and editors use some SNS mostly for tweeting headlines and links. They don’t understand some potential of them. Nowadays, as a part of online media, they monitoring their multiple Facebook accounts and Twitter, saving time, searches and scheduling posts.

It’s an interesting point that the gap between social media and journalism is becoming blurred. But with the right tools, those professionals who still seek the freedom of unbiased reporting have growing opportunities too.

And no doubt that social media bring many positive effects on journalism.

Before social media, journalists were very hard to connect with their audiences. They just can connect them through emails, polls, etc. Now, they have a lot of online tools that allow them to keep their hands get information of what’s going on.

Now, Social Media has created many ways for the people and journalists to connect. It has also allowed the journalists to directly contact with people, and without much influence and control.  The public to tell the story in an objective manner with credible sources and provide information that is both educational and insightful entrusts journalists.  Journalists have a duty to tell the story to the public using various aspects such as blogs. But ensure the story will trusted by audiences. Many publications and journalists are moving in light speed to get information share, engage and connect through Twitter and Facebook, the very core essence of journalism cannot be forgotten.

Therefore, it’s not very hard for journalists to stay well. What journalists should to do is that journalists must understand one rule: you have to find your way out in competition with the internet, you need to open your mind, link culture and collaboration, they are rules. because information is not journalism. Journalism needs rules, context, analysis and explanation. The value that gets added with journalism is judgment, analysis and explanation, these are things makes the difference.

An idea important for the journalism is that audience can trust.  news today still has accuracy and fairness, but it is as important for the audiences to see how the news works, how the news is produced, where the information comes from. The emergence of news is as important, as the delivering of the news itself.

Value in the media is actually generated by interaction among the users of media channels.  The implications for the media as an industry and journalism as a profession are profound. Humility and honesty should be the starting point for the media industry in the new era.

Journalists’ main job is replace the majority of people to go site of the incident, reporting the truth and what it stands, to help media to reach education, discussion, entertainment and other functions. The most important responsibilities and tasks of journalists are writte reports. Journalist is a bridge between the reader and the facts.

We deeply feel that we are surrounded by the news media everyday. For the news media, we have been deeply rely on them to provide us with information. Therefore, faithfully report the facts, should become journalists’ duty and a moral imperative.

References:

Radsch, C 2011, Bloggers as citizen journalist, Encyclopedia of social movement media, Pp. 62-65, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. P. 61.

How social networking sites impact communication and relationship

Social media is steadily gaining popularity and acceptance as it begins to supple real-world interactions and experiences. Content creators are sharing opinions, experiences, knowledge and resources as they would in the real world, with the added advantage of simple dissemination to a larger group of individuals and archiving of such content for reuse.

Social media also helps people improve social relations and corporate communication or maintain them more appropriately while providing improved opportunities for networking.

A video about effect of social media on communicationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nxjnsukyzo

With the advent of online social networking, it is much easier to keep in touch with a greater number of social connects at a convenient time and comfortable place and remain up to date on the occurrences in their lives on a regular basis using a few social media sites. Such as SNS allow people to share their life changing content, it will fundamentally change the way humans interact with each other. SNS allow people to find new friends or old friends, strengthen their links with new friends. In fact, old vintage photographs can connect their memories between people with friends

Social media is bringing together people and their collective wisdom to content development. Social media provides an outlet for individuals to share their experiences and knowledge to contact with others. Especially the emergence of social networking sites has brought important influence to human communication.

Today, 57% of people talk to each other on the network. News, photos and video content on this platform will be shared immediately, no matter what kind of assembly can be in here. sns increased the opportunities of understanding each other between people (John A. Bargh & Katelyn Y. A. McKenna, 2004).

SNS relationships are a weak link on the surface, but in fact this relationship has great potential. People on SNS are a virtual community that have common interests, common goals, this community retains some characteristics of real communities, such as the identity similar to a sense of belonging, similar values. SNS is a greater emphasis on the relationship between human and Internet tools.

There is a close relationship between communication and SNS, The relationship between people and SNS more emphasis the value of an sense of identity. And SNS help people re-homing, to find their own sense of belonging, to form their own relationships.

Communication and interpersonal relations on SNS seems very casual on the surface, people can always concerned or not concerned about some information, just by their own judgment.

Compared with real life, SNS have more autonomous, and not subject by real-life constraints.

But in fact, relationships between people and SNS gradually began to change. The “intimate” relationship directly affects the interpersonal communication, namely people now pay more attention on the relationship between people and pay more attention to the construction, maintenance and repair relationships.

Social media also supplements conventional media. Unfettered blogs can provide honest opinions and novel perspectives.

SNS are web-based services that allow individuals to connect with real world friends. SNS allow individuals to manage social connections and allow interaction with a multitude of friends, many of whom may be geographically separated, at one location. Interactions include sharing of personal information, photos or video, and communication through messaging.

SNS also provide an avenue to explore extended friendship networks and forge relationships with previously unknown individuals. Further, social networking services also allow the creation of communities where users can interact with other individuals on a common topic of interest.

Positive impact

The most valuable is that network information sharing . It makes the network relationships in virtual space reflect the new way of communication. The SNS expanded the interpersonal communication range to people. However, due to the network across time and space and virtual sex characteristics, many people can often be easily chat with open hearts. Revealing the privacy or relatives. And do not worry there will be a variety of real-world problems left over from this perspective. thus the network seems open another communication channel in terms of interpersonal communication. People gradually discovered that the process of communication could also be comfortable, so make them more confident.

Negative impact.

Negative Effects of Social Networking Sites for Students Related resourses

SNS makes it difficult for network authentication between users, online communication can be completely cynical. SNS pull away the psychological distance between people. And caused a lot of psychological crisis (Turkle, S 2011). Social networks cannot be used as an alternative to the real, cannot really meet the emotional needs of the real world of human. Some people indulge in the virtual world too. Tend to be alienated from real life.

Related resourses:

The positives and negatives of using social networking sites

How Does Social Media Affect Relationships?

References:

John A. Bargh and Katelyn Y. A. McKenna, The Internet and Social Life, Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 55: 573-590 (Volume publication date February 2004)

Turkle, Sherry (2011). Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Basic Books. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-465-02234-2.

The history of social media

As we all know, the way of interacting with people across long distances has been a concern of humans for centuries. In the past, communication media for human only use text and face-to-face. But now includes text, graphics, sound, animation and intertwined combinations of video.

This is a video about history of social media:

As social animals, people have always relied on communication to enhance relationships between friends, colleagues and families. When face-to-face communications are inconvenient or impossible, people have dreamed up plenty of creative solutions. Such as social media.

Do you know who started social media? I was surprised when I heard that Social media has a long history, and the name “Friends Reunited” was the first social media website.Friends Reunited  The Brief History of Social Media

The earliest ways of communicating across great distances are letters. People used written letters delivered to other person.

Then the telegraph was invented in 1792, this made messages to be delivered faster and convenient, and can send over a longer distance. It is a new way to transfer news and information.

In the 20th Century, technology began to change very quickly. Scientists and engineers began to develop methods to create networks, and gave the birth of the Internet.

In the 1960s，the earliest forms of the Internet were developed. In the meantime, it has also developed in the form of the original email. After 1969s, A couple years later, the first-ever email was sent. In the 70 s, the network technology has improved, the 1979 download links allow users to communication through the virtual communication.

In the 1980 s, social media was becoming more and more complex, and home computers were becoming increasingly common.

In 1997, the first recognizable social media site was created, named  ‘Six Degrees’, it provided a convenient way help people make friends with others.

In 1999, after the first blogging sites became popular, social media began very popular. In the early 2000s, SNS like Photobucket could let people share photo online, and MySpace came out popular. in 2005, YouTube came out , it was a new revolution for people share ideas, lives, interests, and communicate with different person from different areas，and remove distance.

In 2006, Twitter and Facebook both became very popular to people in the world.  Heavy user on Twitter can really understand the impact of twitter on their lives and works, these people are the media earliest practitioners and the most experienced group. After that, some other sites came out successively, such as Spotify, Pinteres, Foursquare, Tumblr. Until today, there are lots of social networking sites exist.

I also think that forums such as phpbb and vbulletin played a large part in the early ‘social media’ scene. They were early, they were both widely used around the web, and forums were early ‘communities’ was where the social media phenomenon emerged.

Professional networking site LinkedIn. LinkedIn is working to provide efficient, safe, and business value of social services. Its users seeking human resources of the enterprise, do marketing agency In specific populations, and Individual job seekers.

With the expansion of the business model, LinkedIn not only just a social networking sites for find job, it’s some of the special features and some have been used as a marketing channel by some commercial sites, LinkedIn really put social relationships into a commercial network.

Therefore, Social Media (Social media) is a major trend of Internet in 2008. Both for consumers, businesses or vendors, social media is a hot topic.

Today, Social media is become the mainly tools and platforms that people used to share ideas, insights, experiences and perspectives with each other.

Social media on the Internet developed rapidly, and have a huge influence on people’s social life, information spread by social media become an important part of people browse the Internet. It not only made ​​people eager to discuss hot topic in social life, and thus attract more traditional media to follow-up.

Internet social life has been developed in a small group of Internet. In some platform of social networking site, countless people are spreading information in the network, and the valuable information will be spread rapidly around the world. This is what we have just heard in recent years, a new term: “Social media”.

Security and Privacy on Social Networking Sites

The social networking sites are they sometime detrimental to their users? It may come to a question. Today I want talk about the negative side of social networking sites, and analysis the relationship between social networking sites and our privacy.

There is a negative side of social networking sites. For example excessive unconscionable use of social networking sites can lead to privacy issues.A Survey of Privacy and Security Issues in Social Networks
The first thing come to my mind is when apply to sign in on some social network sites. Almost all sites ask for basic information including for nation, date of birth, email, education, religion, even the sexual orientation, All social networking sites come with their own privacy agreements in settings.

Online you will really are who you say you are, the things you say or write take on life of their own, or post your pictures of yourself and your family. They form you identity. But the social networking sites where we express ourselves don’t just focus on individuals. because Social sites become more popular，with the rise of social networking sites, network crimes are also focusing on this area, because they have very high popularity and visitor volume. Therefore it brings some issues of privacy and security.
Seven major security risks in social networking sites may include:
1, Use lures and misleads to encourage users to fill in their account number and password.
2 Reward points through the game, giving priority to enjoy new features, to encourage users to fill in their true situation. Websites security provides protection systems, but there are still many problems exit.
3, Some sites encourages users account with cellphone, establish mobile information database, there is loss of privacy risks.
4, The site’s privacy protection design, complete with “convenience” as the starting point, ignore the user’s “security risk.”
5, The site uses a lot of Ajax technology, it is prone to XSS and CSRF attacks, lead to user’s computer poisoning, and other online banking accounts theft.
6, The frequent harassment of registered users, mail contact, lured they register their own websites, or even directly defrauding privacy information, and push advertising.
7, Users can easily reveal their real situation during the exchange process in a game, it might give convenience for hackers to fraud.

After registered users personal information on social networking sites，the phone number is very susceptible to leaks，such as the account password are very easy to theft. And defrauding information from users in various ways is become an important source to profit of social networking sites.
According to industry estimates, in large and medium cities in china， 95% Internet users from 15 to 30 years old will register more than one social networking sites.
In the test of the Rising, a person use an MSN account include 30 friends to register in a social networking site, it found that 16 of friends fill in their own MSN account password, the buddy list is stored in the site’s server. Once these privacy information disclosures, the consequences could be disastrous. And the information of MySpace account, Facebook account and other social networking sites can be bought on the black market, the price is based on active individual account level, degree of perfection from a few cents to a few dollars. So it brings security risks, the risk of personal privacy very seriously.
Therefore, we need to pay more attention on the safety of using social networking sites, especially more and more younger users take part in those sites. we need to learn how to protect your privacy on SNS. HOW TO MAINTAIN YOUR PRIVACY ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

Those social networking sites also need find some effective ways to improve their privacy and security procedures. And privacy is also implicated in users’ ability to control impressions and manage social contexts. Some users are accustomed to their own real-life trajectory disclosure in those sites, such as Facebook, but also create a potential privacy threat. So, whether they realize a possible privacy threat? Whether they still care about their privacy? If so, why do they also exhibit seems to not care about privacy. Meanwhile, facing the temptation of interests, these social networking sites whether really care about users’ privacy and security or not？