Dependence

Do you love to sit for hours on the internet? Waking up in the morning, the first thing that  you do is opening your laptop and check your email and Facebook. Be careful!This can lead to big problems ...

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Is Social Media and Social News The Same Thing?

It is easy to confuse social media with social news because we often refer to members of the news as "the media." Adding to the confusion is the fact that a social news site is also a social media site because it falls into that broader category.

But social news is not the same thing as social media anymore than a banana is the same thing as fruit. A banana is a type of fruit, but fruit can also be grapes, strawberries, or lemons. And while social news is social media, social networking and wikis are also social media.

Social Media and the News Cycle

Social news sites are a type of social media that crowd-source some of the functions of an editor and curator. These sites let users decide which story is worthy or unworthy of being featured on the front page. The decision is usually influenced by the member’s personal tastes, background and the freshness of the story.

Each user typically has the privilege to vote on a submission. The most popular stories are then featured on the front page of the site or it becomes the top story for a particular category.

The most popular social new sites like Reddit often cover a wide variety of topics. Others tend to specialize on a particular niche like DesignBump whose members are mostly designers.

Social bookmarking started initially as a way for users to “bookmark” a link for reference or future reading. Once these sites started to rank the popularity of the links being bookmarked they became similar in scope and function to social news sites. For simplicity both have been lumped into one category.

Communities have grown up around these sites.  Lively discussions and debates about popular issues, and their innate social nature have made them very popular with a significant amount of users.

Trip to Chisinau

It was the first time when we have frozen together in Moldova. Nine guys in Chisinau, nobody in the street, no hope and very much scared eyes. (Tatia)

 The Pub and the band in Moldova was not as imagined. And there were not any people in the streets. I want to see some human beings except our project group. The nice things are warm and friendly moldovian friends. If they were not be here I would be a frozen man without jacket.  (Onur)

I had a beer in a club. There were three men who played crazy music.We took a short walk,but we did not see anything.(Teresa)

Hardcore music in the bar.I saw a poster of Spanish cinema's week.(Carlos)

     

The experiment? Oh, yes! With pleasure!

 Have you ever thought about the experiments? Or about your own lab? Or about what to mix two or more components and get an unusual result? Or something very unusual lab?

But in the media lab knows what to do. Tweeter, Facebook, Google .. And that's not all that you experiment here.

Laboratory started its work on 1 October. In the beautiful country of Moldova, near the capital, Kostesti. Here, everyone is learning to understand each other, because the people are from different countries (Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia, Spain, Poland, Georgia,Moldova,Czech Republic,Azerbaijian). Different languages, different cultures - it's not a problem of the soul and have fun coming up with new things to do.

Everyone shares the experience, skills and knowledge. And also love to confess their country and their culture, is divided into games and good humor. Taken together, learn to be a team and trust each other.

Interculture evening

Sharing experiences about Photographing

Team bulding

Making blogs

Our Laboratory