Ango Wang

Media is told as a medium to transform information, but this sentence really cannot remind me how important media is. Through this assignment, I have resulted from several vital points that are affecting me a lot. First of all, media is a bridge between an individual and another,  a group and another, a culture and another and of course, a country and another. The most obvious importance of that is called globalisation, which is the prior prerequisite for most social media platforms (cultural) and collaboration (commercial). Additionally, as it is a generation of information explosion, different media can transmit totally different even opposite information and attitudes through different frames of same materials. Plus, it is not anymore the time when a little number of professional producers creating most of the media contents, although the professional contents still take up much space of all, increasing number of non-professional producers keep adding various attitudes and angl...

I have just done my fast tracking this very moment and I missed my computer eagerly bad. Although I broke the fast quite a lot, still I felt really harsh. At the beginning of the fast, I turned all the notifications off on my cell phone, including every social site and even Messages. After all, there are several main needs which cannot be replaced for me: time, multitasking notebook, music, and digital personal trainer. I have experienced a perfect example of a combination and importance of digital multi-media today. I went to the gym and a time alarm was needed before, and I need music on my way and during the workout. The digital training application was certainly needed and irreplaceable as well. Going to the supermarket after working out was a part of daily routine, too, the shopping lists and reminders on the digital notebook were definitely important since I’m quite oblivious, so I take notes of everything. Each function I mentioned seems replaceable with different dev...

I found an interesting series of videos on YouTube, and the long-tail phenomenon of them is quite interesting as well. The series is called Cupid On Street, the host finds single boys and girls on street in Taiwan and pairs them depending on few simple descriptions. Each video is actually short that none is longer than 10 minutes, but each video can cause 20 thousand comments on growing, which can last more than 6 months. I also found that the background of heroes and heroines are more attractive to audiences (their appearances, jobs, hobbies, and sometimes even criminal record). These contents are growing out from the original medium, Youtube, to Facebook, Instagram, and even some news sites. After spending less than 10 minutes on the video itself, almost half an hour would be spent on browsing their social sites and reading stories about them. This type of creation is a good representation of Web 2.0, I think.

Today, one of my friends drove me to the supermarket and another friend of mine picked me up and took me home. Both of them played music on cars but I found differences on media. Former friend paired his cell phone with Aux media on the car through Bluetooth and played songs on his phone, while the other friend just simply turned on the radio on her car. The first friend is at the same age with me, and the second one is around 30 years old. I found the difference and in retrospect, it seems teenagers and young peers (including myself) always play only music on their own phones while the other don’t want to bother pairing devices to their cars. This reminds me of age-generated media. Further thinking, a number of young people is strongly persistent on expressing their tastes and preferences through the media they use. Media is extra important for these people as it is not only a vital part of daily life, it gradually becomes an indivisible whole with personalities.