Tap Tap Revolution

People these days want something that can contain more than one benefit from one piece of item. What is that mean? People want digital camera as a video recorder too. As well as their mobile phone, they want one electronic device that could include camera, video recorder, access to the internet, video player, map, etc. Those entire requirements we can get from our mobile phone.

Who does not have a mobile phone in this 21^st century? For person more than 13 year-of-age, it is very common to have a mobile phone. The reason to have electronic device can be vary, but I believe that most of them use it not only for calling or text purpose. In the 1900s until 2004, as I know mobile phone only provide call and SMS but these days mobile phone can work almost the same as computer. According to Paul Levinson (2009), people used to read, write, see, hear and produce new new media – the devices, or I can say people like to keep in touch with new new media although they are in work or public transport. That electronic device these days provides E-mail, access to the internet, high resolution of image, etc.

There are many website these days provide streaming or download movies. Let us think, if those movie watched from a low resolution devices, like Nokia 2005 version? Will you satisfied with that? I don’t think so. That is why people in the 21^st century need a device that could provide a high resolution and a dominant screen to watch movies through their phone.

Iphone and blackberry? Iphone and Blackberry are two famous electronic devices in this world. In my country (Indonesia), I can say almost people above 15 year old have it. If I go to a restaurant or coffee shop, I can see a table with full of Indonesian put their Blackberry in the table. Yes, almost all of them. Why Blackberry is very famous? Because Blackberry provides easy internet access, and Blackberry messenger. Blackberry Messenger is an application that all blackberry users can keep in touch by sending image, text or voice note.

However, the fact is Iphone still in the higher demand since it has been published in 2007 than Blackberry in this world. That product that comes from Apple Company becomes a trend in the world. Why? Because Apple took an entirely different approach and focused on making web sites work on the iPhone, as is. Since iPhone runs OS X Safari, for designers it is only a matter of figuring out how to make web pages fit onto a small screen. Naturally, there are already several technologies that exist to help people browse when the content does not fit onto a screen - scrolling, paging and zooming. So Apple combined its innovative multi-touch technology with some old ideas, to deliver a complete browsing experience to the iPhone users. How well it will work remains to be seen. Particularly, will people be able to master multi-touch and will they like the experience of looking at pieces of a web page? If the answer is yes, then the iPhone will break the Web out of the WAP prison.

In the Iphone, user could watch movie or video via YouTube. Same as Ipod, Iphone could save videos that can be watch whenever the user wants. Do not worry about the resolution, Iphone provides a high resolution! As well as an access to facebook, twitter, Myspace, blogs and my more that we can get whenever and wherever we want, as we do not have to wait until we arrived at home and turn on our computer. We can see those website almost the same as we see them in computer.

The flat screen and high resolution of Iphone help user to get what they want in a short time, as simply as tap and drag their mobile phone’s screen. In my opinion that is the reason why people are really like to use Iphone.

“The better the mobile application, the more incentive for new new media to develop cool new mobile applications. But one mobile device more than any other ignited and now typifies new new media in everyone’s hands and pockets: the Iphone”, Paul Levinson (2009, p 187).

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Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decision. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil government, but politics has been observed in other group interaction, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. It consists of “social relations involving authority or power”. I believe in all parties and politicians, they want to grab all people attention to get more polling in their presidential election. Some of them using poster, speech, brochure, or any kind of media kit that be present in the world. The one that I want to explain here is, how new new media could be a part of the election. I believe that as people are really concern with their future president, thus they will find out who are they and the most easy and update medium to find out those information is from new new media these days.

According to Paul Levinson, “But Obama’s YouTube addresses, in pasticular, take advantage of all the characteristic of this new new medium, just as FDR’s fireside chats did with radio in the 1930s and ‘40s. He also informs us Obama on YouTube goes well with today world, as in fact people wants to keep in touch with their president, or at least hear and see him.

If you see the YouTube video above, it has a really good impact on the 2008 election. This video has viewed approximately 17 million times. Who would admit to voting for a candidate because of saucy or funny video? But the fact was he did very well with the under 30 years old voter, both in primaries and the general election. I reckon this video wants to tell the public that Obama is cool, interesting and attractive person. The result form this video was Obama has three times greater for voters under 30 years old than four years earlier. In this video, this girl informs the viewer that Obama is so worth to choose. However there is also the bad impact of this video. As I reckon this video as saucy and funny video, some people above 40 years want to have a serious and authoritativeness president. Obama girl video has a potential to make Obama lacks of those characteristics.

At the other case, the video above shows us how culture jamming has got in to politicians. As anyone could be the producer of new new media these days, so there is no boundary, rules and ethics. That video embarrassed and humiliating Hillary Clinton in which she also one of the candidates of American presidential election in 2008. As in fact this video has been view by around 10 millions viewer, I believe that this video has produced a bad impact of Hillary Clinton.

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Do you know what produsage means? It is not a really common word for people. In the online network participants are not simply as passive consumer, but active users. Produsage occupy as users and producer, since people are like something that active than passive nowadays. The example for produsage is participants in YouTube, Wikipedia, and Second Life.

For a website like YouTube, consumer be able to upload their own video, which sometimes result a bad impact. “Because YouTube is fed by anyone with a video camera or camera phone, the people in the video – the subject of the clip – can just easily be unknown as famous”, Paul Levinson. Some of them use YouTube to make them as famous, meanwhile there are some of them upload it for their satisfaction. On the other hand, if you uploaded your video in good purpose, it also could end in a good result. People could like you, and you can be famous. For instance Justin Bieber, he was started his carrier by uploading his video to YouTube, and many people like his voice. Eventually, Scooter Braun were seen his video and attracted to his talent. He arranged for him to meet Usher. Bieber now becomes world famous singer only because he uploaded his video in YouTube.

If you go to www.YouTube.com and find your favorite singer, you can find another link, which actually is not your singer. People uploaded their own video singing his or her song. I am not a person who dislikes those habits because people have their own right to do so. Sometimes I found a video that much better than the actual one. I found this video in YouTube, they are covering Lady Gaga song (Just Dance), I like their voice more that Lady Gaga. Approximately 350,000 YouTube visitors have watched this video.

However, sometimes they use it to tease the singer or discriminated others that is what I c alled immoral. If you see in this video, this girl covering Spice Girl (Move Over), she mentions her friends and she discriminated her friends. Well, actually she is one of Indonesian famous actress. She became a really big issue, regarding this video. Her image became really bad in Indonesia. She uploaded this video by herself to YouTube. Some people said she is depressed while another said she is near to crazy. Her image before she uploaded this video was a very sweet and nice girl, since she always act as good girl in her movie. So we have to be careful with what we put in YouTube or any other online network, because sometimes it could result a bad impact!