Social Network and Its

Drawbacks
Social Network
• A network of individuals (such as friends, acquaintances and
coworkers) connected by interpersonal relationships.
• An online service or site through which people create and maintain
interpersonal relationships – and people have become comfortable
using smart-phones to share information about themselves via mobile
applications that access social networks.
• The activity of creating personal and business relationships with other
people especially by sharing information, personal messages and
others on the internet.
Telecommunications: Rights or Necessity?
1. Why does telecommunications matter?

2. Aren’t water, latrines and medicine more important?

3. Can people in emerging markets afford cellphones?

4. How are we going to solve this problem (if there’s any)?

 Information and
Communications Technology
 Information and Communications
Technology
• Stands for "Information and Communication Technologies." ICT refers to technologies that provide
access to information through telecommunications. It is similar to Information Technology (IT), but
focuses primarily on communication technologies. This includes the Internet, wireless networks, cell
phones, and other communication mediums.

• In the past few decades, information and communication technologies have provided society with a
vast array of new communication capabilities. For example, people can communicate in real-time
with others in different countries using technologies such as instant messaging, voice over IP (VoIP),
and video-conferencing. Social networking websites like Facebook allow users from all over the
world to remain in contact and communicate on a regular basis.

• Modern information and communication technologies have created a "global village," in which
people can communicate with others across the world as if they were living next door. For this
reason, ICT is often studied in the context of how modern communication technologies affect society.
 Seven Media Trends in 2014
1. You won’t create content without promoting it.
2. You have to take a mobile-first approach to marketing.
3. Social platforms will focus on the rest of the world and continue to draft
off mobile penetration.
4. Brands will start to adopt technology that moves beyond simple problems.
5. Design finally matters for enterprise software.
6. Web banners will be down for the first time ever, and they won’t come
back.
7. China is the most important country to watch as it relates to social and
mobile.
 Comment on the following quotations.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed.

If you read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
Author unknown
(commonly attributed to Mark Twain or Thomas Jefferson)

We have more media than ever and more technology

in our lives. It’s supposed to help us communicate,
but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

Tracy Chapman
Source: http://www.personal.psu.edu/bfr3/blogs/asp/2013/03/media-influence-stop-it-or-use-it.html
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