Social Media on Mental Health in Sports

Back in the summer of 2016, Drake has just dropped a new album called "Views." It was an instant hit, like many of his albums. However, what drew my attention was the album cover. A quick glance and you see the CN Tower. But if you look closer you see Drake sitting on top of the tower "viewing" over his city. So, one day during sunset, I went out to take a photo of the Verrazano bridge. And I thought it would be interesting to edit Drake sitting on top of the bridge looking over my city, with the sun right behind him almost giving off the effect as if he was glowing. In retrospect, he looks too big and disproportionate to everything else, but I still think it is a funny take on his album. Photo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6fEHH5-LqSFcklpZGctLWdMQXM/view

New media, and social media specifically, allows users to create and post anything they want as long as it follows certain guidelines. Visual content is in high demand and is what keeps people on new media sites and is what gets people coming back for more. Where there is a demand, there will be someone who is willing to supply it. According to Barnes, back in 2007, when Soulja Boy's "Crank That" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, many creators compiled a bunch of clips from Nickelodean and put them together to make it seem as if Spongebob was rapping the song which has accumulated over 7 million views. New media can also foster creativity because of what you see online. This allows users to draw inspiration from different creators and put their on flare on it and make it unique and creative. References: 1. Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why? The New York Times, September 24, 2007; available at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/business/media/24crank....

I think virtual worlds are the future. Virtual worlds can be used for training and is seen in classrooms as it gets better. It has allowed students to take virtual field trips, learn about the lives of refugee families or study the inner workings of volcanoes (Earle). Virtual reality is new and exciting and may help students be interested in learning. Advantages of these virtual worlds can improve gaming experiences, virtual prototypes, therapy, and training programs for the military, medical field and astronauts. Disadvantages of these virtual worlds is that it is difficult and time-consuming to truly recreate a virtual environment that captures all the details of the real world. Like most new technologies there are minor flaws that can make the experience mundane. However, for many kids it helps foster creativity. Minecraft is a space for kids to exercise their imagination and to connect with others to also want to build and create things (Morie). It allows kids to do things that the...

 First and foremost, a discussion is when a group of people share and exchange ideas of a certain topic. So the main difference between a Twitter discussion, BlackBoard discussion, and an in-class discussion is the medium in which it is used to discuss. On Twitter, anyone who sees the tweet can reply and join in the discussion. A BlackBoard discussion puts a small limit on that, because you can only join in the discussion only if you are registered in the class. Lastly, an in-class discussion puts the most limit, because you have to be live and present in the room to participate in the discussion. All 3 can have the same topic for discussion but its a matter of where and how the discussion is being hosted.

 The four social networking sites I choose were Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have a lot of similarities. You can post videos and photos along with a caption to update friends and followers on your lives. Twitter, however, is usually shorter and quicker "tweets." Instagram is very visual dominated, meaning every post is accompanied with a photo, video, or both. One thing I would also like to note is that Facebook owns Instagram, but they have their differences. LinkedIn is nearly identical to Facebook, but for professionals where you can find jobs and/or job candidates. One thing all four have in common is that if you want to see more posts and content, you have to keep scrolling.

Ways that social networking can be used is in work, avocation, health/medical, games, and for purely social. Social networking can provide many benefits, one being job recruiting. Using sites like LinkedIn, recruiters have a easy way to sort out potential candidates to work for their company. Maureen Crawford-Hentz used LinkedIn looking for consumer product marketing and stumbled upon Alfred LaSpina, in which she reached out to and is now an employee of the company (Langfitt). Social networking, which comes to no surprise, has many privacy issues. Mark Zuckerbergs sister, Randi, posted a family photo which she thought was private, was retweeted by Vox Media marketing director that drew a lot of attention that Randi did not want (Greenfield). This shows the privacy issue that social networking comes with. I think in the future social networking technologies may move onto virtual reality (VR). I think this could be a possibility because the technology is getting better and maybe in the f...

    Blogs and wikis are very similar and very different in their own respects.  Similarities include, one, that both are places you can go for information or for a deeper understanding about a certain topic, and, two, both are a place where you can share knowledge (Cook).  One major difference between blogs and wikis is who it is owned by.  Blogs are generally owned by one person or have one author and others comment, on the other hand, wikis have multiple authors and is continuously created, revised, edited, and deleted (College of St. Scholastica).   Another difference, is the relevance of the information.  Tom Johnson says, "wikis are suited for information that doesn't expire in a short time, while blogs are better for short-lived news."  And once the news on the blog becomes "old" it is no long relevant it is essentially trashed, whereas a wiki will always have relevant information on a specific topic.      I think in toda...