My name is Jan Han and I am currently a Master’s student dealing with media economics particularly that of online gaming and its social community. I have started out this blog as my role of a student blogger for the New Media @ Arts House. Despite starting off with a rather boring and typical start, I will like to start with some of the roles that I am doing in this new program.
First of all, the New Media @ Arts House will be dealing with the various aspects of the Internet. In my specific role, the session that I will be concentrating will discuss impact of New Media on society, in order to understand how countries, businesses and individuals should position themselves for the future of a digitized society.
I am blogging some of the experiences and themes that are discussed during the event at New Media @ Arts House, particularly that of the social and ethical impact of the New Media, cultural differences in terms of consumption and production, how the online world will change the offline world, as well as copyright and privacy issues. I will also be trying to get a scope on the people who knows their stuff in the conference, getting some interviews to get an insider’s view on the issues discussed.
Let me go on with my personal experience of the new media, the Internet.
The growing wired world is definitely upon us, and most of the technophobics like me will never have heard of the Internet ten years ago. Ten years ago, the Internet is perhaps a tool for the elite or the engineers, used to communicate technical jargons that 99% of the population will never understand. It is also amusing to note that most of us will have been rather satisfied then with a 56k connection, surfing mainly text-based articles that have little pictures to reduce the load of the site and making it more acceptable. Blogs are perhaps not really popular then, since most people see the Internet as somewhat of a new domain, one that no one really knew how to tap into.
However, there is definitely little social interaction value, at least for the common person like me that has little technological knowledge. The Internet is perhaps a confusing world, even so up to today as I am still grasping the many concepts and structure of the world. Then, telnet is perhaps considered to be the biggest social form for most people and I must say that for a tech idiot to be able to go and see it is one amazing situation indeed.
The current world right now is so much different. If you are reading this little space, it should tell you that you are already slowly being exposed to the wired community. You use MSN messenger at least once in your life even though you complain about how bad it is, you probably have done a bit of downloading in your life, you have read online blogs that talk about anything under the sun and perhaps having a network of friends far across two continents (My girlfriend is in Long Beach, California, by the way).
With that introduction of myself and my life into the Internet, I will bring you my experiences and views about the Internet, and how much it has changed my life, as well as the masses as I see through my everyday reading.
