Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Mobile Commerce & its impact on you personally and on modern business

Mobile Commerce & its impact on you personally and on modern business

SMARTPHONE

Introduction 

Mobile, Cell or even brick these were all terms we once all knew to be this piece of  powerfully Communication device that only makes phone calls and texts what more can anyone ask for!
Until the time of the smartphone age of course which came upon us bringing the huge change in the way we live are life's for all sorts of benefits like communicating with friends on your phone camera or buying tickets on a bus using wi-fi with your S4 and the occasional problem which will always be up internet for all of time.
For Business, it probably there Holy Grail but only if the do it right or it could very well backlash on them with negative results. A good example would be a customer getting food poison in a take away all the have to do is take out their iPhone go online and the whole world will know about it and it up there for ever unless you prepare for the situation.

M-Commerce

When you hear that smartphones are outselling pc's you know you can tell PC's time is going down the same path like the mp3 player, radio, cameras and plenty of more, these we all once had are now been replace as "one in all" it not surprising to me because I always seen so much change within a few's years it makes me think anything is possible.

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
-  Niels Bohr

Now that business are adopting the new ways on selling their products through phones for example free Wi-fi at a cafe will increase customers, nowadays it pretty much required everywhere you go there has to be free Wi-Fi unless you do it in a smart way like this one time I was in Holland visiting a cafe and I had to purchased a product when the gave me a receipt it had their code to login so that one way I see business using it for their advantages.



CONCLUSION 

its very exciting to see how the world is going to adapted for the worse and good. People are becoming more depended on these devices to do there stuff in someways i see peoples comuncation shattering away and think it alright to be on the phone while all there mates are around them, the other factor i like to see is sercuity as for example other people on Wi-Fi can easily acess info about you without even known which i find scary that one day there no money in my account. 
the adavantages are just as nice phones are becoming the next Doctor having introduce watches that connect to you phone can take pluse reading and can tell you what to changes. 
As i say i ca n't wait to see what the furture is going to become but let again i would be aware of sercuit y.

Refrences 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5wZEMNBo2U
Class notes - Colin Cooney

My Media Exposure

My Media Exposure


MEDIA EXPOSURE

When I first got this topic to write about I knew I could write so much about this because I been exposed to media a hell of a lot more than back in the day when broadband wasn't a thing, the only place for that Was the TV which has nothing on it at all and radio which wasn't the best.
When I look at the present I can tell you the big changes, first was my Pc which is like my HQ for my media then there my smartphone whenever I'm out and finally the Xbox to play online with mates. These would be my 3 main exposures I can also tell you that TV and radio are history for myself why watch something that someone has chosen while you can do what you want to do.



The very first thing I do when I wake up is get my phone and check up on the current news local and international. What I like to do a lot is look up both western and eastern news sites so I can see two sides to a story which in itself is two different ways of media a perfect example of this would be the ongoing Suitition in Ukraine, America Vs Russia, the new cold war the west are calling it and Russia is listening to the people. I like to say I can control these medias by making my decision on the facts.
RT NEWS (EASTERN)


USA TODAY (WESTERN)



When I get my full doss of news I go onto my PC and check up on Facebook, Gmail, Liveleak and plenty of others stuff when going through these sites I get full of media adverts which I'm not a big fan of at all so I use this handy extension I use on my browser called Ad-Blocker which stops all pop-ups and all adverts around the sites I visited it's probably one of the best things out there and it free it probably the main reason why I don't watch tv is for all the adds.






For platforms, I use mostly two things Spotfiy which is an online music library that I can use on my phone and Pc, the other is Steam a great way to buy games anywhere all you need is broadband and Pc. When first using Spotify I had a free membership which requires adverts and you had no access to the phone which wasn't great so I decided I would actually invest 10 euro per month and now I couldn't ask for more good quality music  which supports my bands and stops advertisements.
For Steam it pretty much the same as a Game shop open 24/7 with all the latest titles with sales going on all the time never selling out. I also use their phone app which is Useful if i'm away and there a sale on, but I think the great concept of this platform is if my Pc breaks down you don't have to worry about losing the games because once you purchase it you can download again as much as you like.




Finally as a Conclusion I like to say that there is a lot of media exposure in my life, but I like to know that i'm in control of how that happens and not going along like most normal user would be.



Censorship on the Web / Citizen Journalism

Censorship on the Web / Citizen Journalism

Censorship on the Web and Citizen Journalism

When talking about Censorship on the web it really wasn't a thing back in the day we could have said anything to anyone online and got away with it Scot free. Now you look at today's world it now changing dramatically people are facing court over silly little comments and others facing serious time in which country you live in.
The main sites that are causing much of these changes in are law are Twitter, Facebook, Ask.fm, and plenty of well known sites. For myself, the first time I heard of a story where the english government and Prime Minister David Cameron having to promise a review of the country's privacy laws over the Ryan Giggs twitter scandal were the English newspapers could not mention the name of the footballer due to a court order. Somehow the name appeared on Twitter 75,000 times which at that point everyone knew without the papers and it impossible to jail those 75,000 people said one politician this was point when I knew the new law of the internet was coming into effect.
For Journalism it great anyone can do it all you need is the internet there you go but depending on what you say or leak in your country government it may get you in serious trouble even blocking the site Twitter from the country for over two weeks due to corruption and blocking their people from viewing this because of elections. Turkey's prime minister had got the power to do this he even got youtube blocked, but was later overturn under the freedom of speech act and got the guys from Twitter to change things that would suit the PM. 

These examples i explained our what we are getting like for new laws on the internet, to be honest these changes aren't going to do much if it for a good cause, but for people who aren't wise the might face a jail term.
http://www.dawn.com/news/631269/ryan-giggs-sex-scandal-tests-british-privacy-laws
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/20/us-turkey-twitter-idUSBREA3J0ET20140420

KIDS INFLUENTIALLY TOWARDS MEDIA

KIDS INFLUENTIALLY TOWARDS MEDIA

KIDS INFLUENTIALLY TOWARDS MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY 

The way media influence kids in the 21st century is getting worse than better i think.
The disadvantages why i think this is cause of kids TV shows, the are full of advertisements every 15 to 20 min which is just basically brainwashing them and making them into spoiled kids when their parents get them that toy on the advert.
Another big issue is kids playing Xbox or Ps3 instead of being outside playing and being healthy instead there playing violent games which cause numerous of problems for the kid mentally and physical.  
The only good thing i can say about the media that it is really good for the kids is educational media which is being used to make learning for kids fun and the would have better career opportunities cause of this.
If the media can be used more like this and instead of using it for marketing profit maybe then it could be better served for society