Privacy

Twitter - My profile on twitter is very low key. It's private, therefore people have to request to follow me. I really don't use it at all though.

 Instagram - Also set on private. People have to request to follow me and I approve or decline to decide their fate. This is my main social network account with the most activity. Still no much but I have some followers.

 Soundcloud - This account is public. Anybody can see me, follow me, look at my tracks, or my likes. Not as many people use it.

 Facebook - My Facebook account was my very first social network account. I don't necessarily use it any more, even though I should, but I'll go on to see if my mom's posted a pic or something. 

I think that Facebook has the best privacy settings even though I don't use it as much. I like how you can choose who can read certain posts and be really specific. It's also easiest to search for people on Facebook because, instead of user names, people use their own name. I've been off of Facebook for a while so I feel a disconnection between my added friends which makes me not want to post anymore. Even though Facebook is good with privacy settings, Instagram feels like a fresher start. You don't need to say as many personal things about yourself on Instagram, unlike Facebook, when you post where you go to school, where you work, where you live, etc. All I have to do on Instagram is post a picture and say one thing about it and everyone's happy.

We have decided to change our project a little to focus more on a specific topic. Which is how has Social Media affected the music industry,and what ways have the music industry adapted to these social media outlets.

Group members and Roles: 

Leader: Dominique Carter

Organizer: Sergio Sapon

Peacekeeper/Check up : Carolina Nuño

Editor/Reviser: Dalton Cramer 


Dominique Carter:

Will be researching on the copyright laws passed over the years due to the come up of all the social media sites and apps. Trying to see if their any laws passed directly to use of music, and looking into how people reacted to the new laws being passed.


Dalton Cramer:

Will be looking into the statistics of the sales of the music due to the use of Social media sites/apps. How dramatically has it changed over the years and how much it will change. Also on how it has affected the distribution of the music being sold.


Sergio Sapon and Carolina Nuño:

Will be working together on researching on social media like Twitter, Vine, Facebook etc and how it helps and sometimes hurt the artists and their music. Finding out which one is being used the most by record labels/artist and how. Also talking about how these sites/apps have taken place of the conventional ways of advertisement of music.



The resources we will be using will primarily be Wikipedia, the UHD Catalogs, and this websitehttp://www.theguardian.com/business/musicindustry. The site post allot of current events in the music industry and how certain apps are affecting certain artist and the music. It will also help us link to other sites concerning the industry and how Social media is in affect. We are also planning on going on the websites of certain record labels to see how they are using the social media to help promote their artist. We will even  be going onto the apps and sites ourselves directly to see if we see anything relating to our project. Since we use these sites daily we are sure we will constantly find new things that we can use as current events.

Blog Assignment 4

IMDB: IMDB provides us almost everything we need to know about a specific movie or tv show. As the entry I read was about the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers plot summary, delving more into the website you can find out more. Reading about the trivia, one of the articles is about Helms Deep. It says that a warrior on the wall turns to the camera, revealing his scarred empty socket. The performer who played him showed up as an extra, wearing an eye patch; director Peter Jackson politely asked to see what was under the patch, and then inquired if the gentleman would be interested in appearing in the film.

Oxford Music Online: This article is about american composer Scott Bradley. After working as a theater musician in Houston, Texas, he moved to Los Angeles in 1926 and played in theater and radio orchestras. Bradley was hired by animators Rudy Ising and Hugh Harman, formerly of the Warner Bros. animation studio, to provide music for a short sequence of animation in Paramount’s 1933 feature adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.

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World of Warcraft is one of the most profitable MMO games in history. Players collect currency to buy weapons and other gear to fight monsters, by looting or selling items to other players. The process of collecting currency at a normal playing rate, known as “the grind,” takes about four months to complete. Chinese businesses known as gold farms take over the grind from impatient players.
The Chinese gamers rarely play and engage in the long and hard task of collecting currency, which is then passed on to distributors who sell to players. Many gamers describe the shortcut as cheating, because beginners find it hard to match the productivity levels of the Chinese gold farmers. Some US players filed a lawsuit against IGE, an online World of Warcraft gold retailer. The gold farmers, who work long shifts and earn about 30 cents per hour, are the players who have the most at stake.