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Dec 14, 2009
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Thanks for visiting my site. This site is my hub for everything that I have done online, the place where you can find it all. (If you dare!) Please take the time to connect with me.
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-Marcus
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Marcus Andrews is a new media communications professional in Boston, MA. He holds an undergraduate degree in public relations fromIndiana State University
Why is new media important to you?
New media is the future of communication. Technology has been changing how people interact with each other verbally and non-verbally since the printing press. There are three really important things about this new revolution of communication commonly revered to as new media or social media. The two big and obvious affects are that now ever thing happens in “real time” and anyone from anywhere can access any information they want if they are competent in using the technology. These two changes in how people communicate have lead to a third change, a cultural change; that people are expanding their social networks in a very strange way. An example of this is when you question a member of Gen-Y about how it seems incredibly ridiculous that they have 900 friends on Facebook and they stare at you blankly. For those who have been immersed in this technology for years it does not seem odd to them to keep and manage relationships with hundreds of friends because they are wizards at the technology that makes this possible.
To this same affect a common anti-twitter statement I hear is “How can you follow all of those people and pretend to know all of them?” I answer the non-believers by saying “I can go through all the people I’m following and tell you how I know them or why I think it’s important to have a relationship with them. If I can’t remember them I remove them and I clean house at least twice a month.” These three changes are the simplest way I can describe what is happening in communications and why I think it is important to be on the forefront of this revolution.
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Thanks for visiting my site. This site is my hub for everything that I have done online, the place where you can find it all. (If you dare!) Please take the time to connect with me.
Talk to you soon,
-Marcus
My Communities:
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Marcus Andrews is a new media communications professional in Boston, MA. He holds an undergraduate degree in public relations from
Why is new media important to you?
New media is the future of communication. Technology has been changing how people interact with each other verbally and non-verbally since the printing press. There are three really important things about this new revolution of communication commonly revered to as new media or social media. The two big and obvious affects are that now ever thing happens in “real time” and anyone from anywhere can access any information they want if they are competent in using the technology. These two changes in how people communicate have lead to a third change, a cultural change; that people are expanding their social networks in a very strange way. An example of this is when you question a member of Gen-Y about how it seems incredibly ridiculous that they have 900 friends on Facebook and they stare at you blankly. For those who have been immersed in this technology for years it does not seem odd to them to keep and manage relationships with hundreds of friends because they are wizards at the technology that makes this possible.
To this same affect a common anti-twitter statement I hear is “How can you follow all of those people and pretend to know all of them?” I answer the non-believers by saying “I can go through all the people I’m following and tell you how I know them or why I think it’s important to have a relationship with them. If I can’t remember them I remove them and I clean house at least twice a month.” These three changes are the simplest way I can describe what is happening in communications and why I think it is important to be on the forefront of this revolution.
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