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In his blog post “The People Formerly Known as the Audience”, Jay Rosen has mentioned some crucial role new media today. In my point of view, Rosen tried to emphasize on the difference between the big/Mass media to small/Individual media.  One point was really interesting to me where he says, “Shooting, editing and distributing video once belonged to you, Big Media. Only you could afford to reach a TV audience built in your own image. Now video is coming into the user’s hands, and audience-building by former members of the audience is alive and well on the Web”.

Rosen is so right about this.  Today, any individual person is able to make, edit and distribute his/her own video and can create millions of audiences/viewers. He doesn’t have to be someone related to the big media. He/she could just stay at home and make his own video and just with a click on the mouse he could reach out to millions of viewers. For example, I would like mention one name which is Keenan Cahill (an Internet Celebrity) a 17 years old boy had become very famous after posting his lip-syncing video of some award winner songs. Cahill launched his first famous lip-synced YouTube video on August 28, 2010 on the Katy Perry song Teenage Dream.

After watching his video on YouTube, many superstars came to do real video with Cahill. One thing really astonished me about this kid is that he is suffering from a rare genetic disorder called Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome, also known as MPS-VI.  But his disease couldn’t stop him to reveal his talent in front of millions of audience/ viewers.  He was able to reach out the world from his small bedroom.

http://resolver2009.hubpages.com/hub/Who-Is-Keenan-Cahill

Like Keenan, there are probably thousand more new talents on the web now who are exposing their creations through new media everyday. I believe we the former audience/viewers are now able to create our own audience/viewers.  Our inspirations are right there on the web!

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It took me a while to think about exactly what image i will create for this Creative blogging assignment. Finally i came up with this image which was a randomly chosen image from Google. I edited it simply on Microsoft word 2010 and added the context on the right side of the image. On my first post, I’ve shared with you guys how Facebook has brought my destiny to me. So i found this Image really interesting and thought it would be a perfect one to express my happiness of being married with my loving husband.

A real pic of Fathul and Foujia is also attached below :D..

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After reading the first two chapters of Cognitive Surplus, I’ve come to find that Clay Shirky argues about how the Internet is creating a better and more democratic world by turning us from passive consumers into active producers and participants of information. I also found the reading very interesting that how he compared the role of Twentieth century’s TV culture with Today’s Internet culture on the first chapter (page 22,23). The media TV in past century was running as a consumption event only. People used to just watch it or enjoy it. They weren’t able to react on the consumption actively. Shirky called this event an unbalanced single event. In contrast, Today’s phones and Computers are balanced and have multiple events such as production, consumption and participation. When we buy them to consume we automatically own the means of production. We can now react on the consumption by sharing the consumed product or information with people around the globe through Web. A simple example of this is how we are blogging or tweeting or face booking each other about every little new thing we learn and share it.

Shirky also explained in a very clear way about how our free times are being switched from watching TV to browsing on web. However, while I was reading the first chapter it reminded me of my childhood when I used to be glued to TV after coming from school. I used to watch cartoon/Superman shows for hours after hours. Then did the homework at night. But what I see now a days, kids for example my younger sister who is 13 is more interested in doing homework and watching her favorite shows on computer at the same time. If she gets stuck with her homework she googles about it and finds an answer. The kids today could customize what they want to watch for example they could watch selected episodes from Spongebob Squarepants on internet. However, Just two decades ago when I was a little kid I didn’t have that much of choices. I rarely watch TV now. It’s not like I don’t get time to watch TV, its just I want to multitask while watching news or something. It is really fascinating that how the modern technology and media are changing our daily lives and giving us opportunity to participate actively. Can we project exactly what would be the world after two decades from now?

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