Author Archives: Andrew Di Lapi

Homework 4.

The Zenes were really interesting. all of these different people are out there to make a name for themselves. weather it be via news or the just a good book review or article of a favorite interested. the best one i read was about the local pizza shops in nyc, because i liked pizza and enjoyed reading the users different reviews.

Homework 3.

After i read Pavlik’s, “Producers Of Digital Media” i learned national news papers were once  owned by private businesses. with the technology gradually increasing they became owned by the public. When the World Wide Web became a medium of public communication, books, audio and video content slowly began to increase.  Now we can publish anything from pictures, to blogs and funny videos on the internet. The presidential candidates now use the internet to speak across the world to many different people. Even Saddam Husseins execution was caught on video via cell phone then distributed all over the internet from phone to phone. The most important thing i took out of this was, that  with the internet you can almost do anything wether your watching a video such as Skateboarder Tony Hawk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkXTZtzNA0 or watching a world leader speak, downloading a book to your tablets or cell phone, or uploading pictures from your camera.

Homework 2

I can agree that new technology at times has challenged media and has hanged age old practices and maybe threated traditional media and practices.  it has raised many concerns but others have adopted technology and used it for there advantages. The building of the electromagnetic telescope was an amazing advancement. I Feel the web has advanced alot too which is interesting, what their saying is the web went from just being used in ww2 and not known. To now  having facebook and I.M Messaging.  they also stated it helps  journalists and other media professions do their job. it would help news reporters keep getting information while on the job. Before using mapquest on your phone you actually had to look at a map. Gps now a days and Satalites. media in My opionion is only good if its used for the right reasons. Continue reading

Homework 1

While reading Research strategies by William Badke it has taught me about the many different uses of technology and how it has helped us through our daily lives. In chapter one badke talks about how technology has improved. Before there was print it was all in words you had to remeber what others said. the Chinese actually invented the first printing press before the europeans but Europe had revolutionized the press. Myself im wondering, why didnt the Chinese revolutionize this technology. Was it because they were scared or didnt have enough power to do so? Now during Ww1 U.S started using WWW, but it didnt get more advanced until Much later in time. Then comes more of the modern ages such as books and kindles, i never Though techonlogy went from nothing to something. This world has gone from tablets and scrolls to now e-paper.