Marcena Lau Oct.24/2011
1.How has Facebook affected society?
The Social Networking site Facebook has changed the way of communicating in a society and brought many different societies together. Users with Facebook are able to access digital repository and access others posted information. In a positive way, Facebook has allowed friends to share their daily lives and activities with each other as well as finding friends and people to communicate with. As a society, it becomes beneficial to us because it has created an effect of social globalization in which everyone can communicate with each other and everyone can be friends with whoever has an account on Facebook. This stretches the boundaries of society from per say, the students in a school, to a friend in another country. However, our society has now become to reliant on Facebook. People spend too much time talking to others and making friends on this social networking site rather than meeting others in real life.
2.How can we, as professional communicators, reflect cultural diversity in media products?
The ability to advertise cultural diversity and globalization into a media product is a strong method of bonding different countries and races together. By producing products in which the global nation can have access too, the world will become technologically closer: a global village. For example, Facebook and Apple products are globally available to nearly every continent, allowing a sense of awareness and fairness to the countries. We can reflect cultural diversity in media products by featuring different ethnicities into our products. For example, creating the words “Happy Chinese New Year” on an object and manufacturing products with those words proves a diverse society.
3.What is intellectural property? How can it be protected? What organizations exist to regulate communication in Canada?
Creations and Ideas such as literature and art used in products (commerce). Copyrights are an option to protect these ideas and the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission is an example of a bill, (organization) that helps regulate communicating ideas on media.
4. What are privacy/security issues an average citizen should be aware of when becoming a member on Facebook?
When something is uploaded and posted online, it is permanently there even if one deletes it. There is no turning back once something online is posted. Also, through Facebook, safety concerns will arise due to the fact that it is very easy to trace someone and steal their personal information on Facebook. A display picture can show how you actually look online and a birth year, country, phone number, email, and school will be enough for people to trace where you live and steal your personal information.
5.How might the fate of Facebook been different if Mark Zuckerberg lived by the professional communicators code of ethics?
If Mark Zuckerberg did not take the idea of a social networking site from the Winklevoss brothers, Facebook may have existed as a small unsuccessful socializing website restricted to a certain area. Facebook has allowed the whole world to globally connect as one networked civilization. If Mark Zuckerberg had not broken the rules, we would be living in a world under closed doors.
Social Network- Final Mark
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