Layalr's Blog

Let me begin by giving you all a general overview about New Media and what it is. New media is a number of  different thing, new media can be the ‘emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20th century’ or we can simply refer to it as youtube, skype, msn messenger, blackberry, facebook, twitter !

I will introduce the project that we had to do. This project was about New Media revolved around us learning how to use youtube, our camera on our phones to interview people and upload them on the computer and then on youtube, by doing this we learnt how to make subtitles and use a number of programs such as Windows Movie Maker to edit our videos and make some annotations. This project focused on how new media affects us in our day to day life.

The 1st video i did was Sarah, a 13 year old. My observations was that she was well aware of new media by the programs she uses for it and most of their generations will know more and more about this.

My 2nd video i did was Rayana, a 24 year old. basically i observed how these two had some things in common however the older one was interested to much in facebook and blogging like the 13 year old. she was just interested in MSN messenger.

My 3rd video was Raed Mohsen talked about new media and how he didnt use so much of it, unlike the other two people i interviewes. The similarities were between the first two interviews and ofcourse with Raed was a similarity about using the internet but not twitter, msn messenger and skype etc.

This project has taught me alot and now i can use youtube more and more and am more aware of everything that it encompasses.

Link to the video that was live from conference room : http://www.scribblelive.com/Event/Arab_Pop_Culture_and_the_Media?Page=1

The conference consisted of the following outlines : 

a)      Popular TV Shows, Nostalgia and Political Correctness

Abeer Al Najjar. The American University of Sharjah

B)      Thinly Veiled. Michel Certeau and the Subversive Abaya

                         Michael Long College of the North Atlantic-Qatar and Byrad

Yyeland. Virginia Commonwealth University-Qatar

I agreed with the fact that some women are still in love with the patriorichal ‘beb el hara’ type of man who is more dominant but i do not agree that all arab women love this type, every arab country differs from one another.

i had a great time being present in the conference it was a great opportunity to meet many head of universities in the gulf and i think it worked well that in the same week we put out the arab pop culture newspaper of the daily tribune! what i think should have been done differently is the seating arrangement of everyone because it was hard to take pics and videos and some photos were not even allowed to be taken because of the qatari women wearing the abayas was not allowed.

the user engagement was low because not many questions were asked and if they were asked only the professors had asked them, i think scribble live is an excellent way of showing a live conferenae take place, my teacher watched my live scribbling and he enjoyed it and so did i while writing it  !

3:00     Session 1—Irwin Conference Room

            Moderator: Ralph Berenger 

a)      Popular TV Shows, Nostalgia and Political Correctness

Abeer Al Najjar. The American University of Sharjah

B)      Thinly Veiled. Michel Certeau and the Subversive Abaya

                         Michael Long College of the North Atlantic-Qatar and Byrad

Yyeland. Virginia Commonwealth University-Qatar

This was the schedule of the conference.

you can follow up on this event on this website : http://www.scribblelive.com/event/arab_pop_culture_and_the_media

ENJOY!!!

Today i woke up in the morning and as i was blowing my nose i started dripping a little bit of blood..so i took everything very normally and went got some tissues, some ice and sat on my chair with my head back and put the tissue on my nose pressed on my forehead and put the ice… 1, 1h30 passed by and i was still pouring blood, the tisssues become filled i nearly, my mom had called the doctor, he came quite fast he checked it outt, and said that i need to lay down and keep pressure on it, so i did that after 1 hour, the blood wouldnt stop so my dad’s frend was over and he was actually a doctor so it wouldnt hurt to tell him what he thinks about this he checked it out and told me i may have a weak vein that burst he said it was just like when u cut yourself anywhere else in your body you bleed but this needed more attention, so i ended up going to the emergency room where i had a little suregery done now i have to get some rest for 24 hours hopefully by tomorrow it will ok.

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