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Global social media: China

As we all know, China is one of the top country in term of their technology. Not only that, we all know that “Made In China” product is all over the world. Anything that get famous in other country, China will have their own version of product as well, it could be good or bad. This is where it come to China social media, just like other country which is using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google, that these social media is very well-known, China created their own version of these application, which is Baidu, WeiBo, YouKu, and RenRen. why does China go through so much creating their own version of application? This is all because of the Great Firewall of China. It block everything include Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Google, the citizen of China can only use those application that is allowed, unless some of them decided to use VPN (Virtual Private Network) that allow them to cheat the Firewall and went out of China control, to use other applications. 

China is very strict on their censorship, even though their most famous apps TikTok which is used by 1.3 billion people globally and about 110 million of user from USA, China is very strict in displaying what is shown in TikTok, some event that is run in China is not visible by USA country. Not only in TikTok, the censorship also applied to the Hong Kong protest as well, not everything in the internet was right, as some of the information may have already censored the content. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience/?noredirect=on

https://www.ft.com/content/cda1efbc-ee5a-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/29/the-great-firewall-of-china-xi-jinpings-internet-shutdown

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Social Gaming

Social gaming is about playing game with other peoples, no matter it is online or local network connection, as long as you are playing with one or more people in a game. Then, interaction and communication is done in the game. For example, chatting in game with other friends or players, going to do quest line or clear stage together. Social gaming is not only for those “Hardcore Gamer” but casual players who does not want to spent 24 hours playing game can be related to social gaming as will. Social gaming can be related as well by helping others friend by providing or sent them items that helps them such as Candy Crush, Candy Crash Soda, that are played through Facebook is also social gaming. Nowadays social gaming is becoming more popular as children at the age of 7-10 years old, have already join the social gaming because their parents is providing them the ability to do so. For example, Fortnite Mobile, Pubg Mobile, Call of Duty Mobile, and Mobile Legends. But what affect have social gaming done for us? In my opinion, social gaming have brought good and bad affect to the social. Start from good side of social gaming, social gaming have given us an opportunity to meet more people from world wide, for example, MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Play Game) which involved open world gaming such as Black Desert Online, in the game, people would create guild, party, alliance, platoon and club. When they created all the mentioned idea, people would gather and communicate with each others, as this would help us to make more friend through social gaming. Not only that, players that is involved with those Guild, will held meeting and discussion together with the Guild Master and Officer to organize the guild and make sure that everyone in the guild is able to contribute and have fun together. Base on the good side above, we know that social gaming also help to train us in becoming a leader and gain experience on how to lead and guide people, then it also teach us how to communicate with other people, sometime this could even involved with negotiating with other player for a better item price. 

Then, for the bad side of social gaming, i would say that it is depend on a person idea on gaming, some people that gaming way too serious than others, sometime people just wanted to game for fun and release stress, but some just want to win and this have cause them to be violent in a way that they would curse bad words, criticize other players or they would even bully other players. Not only that, some game require players to spent most of the time to play the game, as other players is improving their skills and play-style, and so do players that want to get good in the game, will need to spent a lot of time practicing and experimenting the game mechanic. 

In conclusion, i do think that the good and bad of social gaming is still depend on how the player think about it, as i would say that social gaming does have a lot of opportunities to teach us a lot of life skills or social skills that normal people would need, such as communication, leader, passion, and teamwork. 

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Fan Communities and Activism

Fan is a person who admire a particular film, genre, actor, or director, but still not participate in any of the social organizations, interactions, and gatherings of “Fandom”. But being a fan is the first instance of appreciate particular films by being emotionally investing in them. Fandom on the other hand, is a gathering for a group of fans which is celebrating and interacting with each other fans. For example, film fandom that involved in participating in online discussion and posting to sites such as the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com), joining film club or group or producing their own fan magazine or it could also be called the “Fanzine”. 

https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fans-and-fandom

Fandom would gather offline to meet with each others to celebrate their idol birthday, or gather to watch their idols live performance. Some even gather to share ideas and knowledge about their favorite idol or they will exchange their collections with other to complete their collections. When a fan communities exist, they will start to have activism on their favorite idols. 

Fandom activism which would catch a lot of attention from the public. For example, Shroud communities as an example, he’s communities in Twitch, an online live stream platform, as Shroud is a generous person, he always like to help other small streamer to get more viewers and followers or even subscribers, he always help them by hosting those that attract his attention, his communities will support him and support anything he does, the clips below is where he host one of the musician in Twitch, then he pay for her medical bills and not only that, his communities does the same as well, they would donate and subscribes to the streamer to give her as much support as possible. 

During this sessions, all his viewer “Communities” will go to the streamer chat and spam the words “Shroud Raid” it means that they are coming in with the supports and views. In my opinion, Shroud communities is one of the best communities, as personally, myself is not really involved with the communities, but i would always watch his live stream to check up how was Shroud doing and sometimes participate in the activism as well, but it was an interesting experiences as the communities is friendly and funny. 

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Crowdfunding and Crowd sourcing

Crowdfunding is one of the alternative finance ways that allows individuals, organizations, or entrepreneurs to raise their funds for their business ventures or projects from a large group of people. Crowdfunding can be done online and offline. Online will be done through kickstarter, GoFundMe, or others. This website is used by organizations or individuals to do their crowdfunding within the limited time. Through online, it can also be another form of funding, which streamer will ask for donation from their viewers or subscribers. For example, the most recent donation was done by MrBeast, where each dollar will be used to plant a tree. As the top donate that was done now will be Elon Musk, who have donated $1 million worth of trees. Where the target of this donation is $20 millions.  

https://www.profolus.com/topics/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-crowdfunding/

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/29/20939016/elon-musk-mrbeast-tree-donation-1-million-spacex-tesla-testifying-no-cash

Another kind of crowdfunding could also be done by game creator organizations where they will ask their fans to donate or purchase their game packages in order to get themselves a beta testing chances. Where this will be count as a contributions to the funding of the game as well. 

Other than online crowdfunding, offline crowdfunding is the most early crowdfunding that was still on going. For example, donation to charity house or people can also do offline donation personally if they went to the location themselves or there will be people who go around at the food store area or public area to ask to for donations.

Next, crowdsourcing which also known as gathering information by doing survey or getting feedback from random users or targeted person in the project. Which organizations will use it as a information gathering tools to get users views and ideas on their product or their services or ways to improve themselves or what is the bad views of the organizations. For example, Swinburne Sarawak is always having survey and feedback from the starting of the semester until the end of the semester, ranging from campus experience to staff performances. The main point of having a crowdsourcing is to either use as a research studies or use to improve they organization performance or take notes of what they are doing bad at. Having meaningless information gathered will be a waste of time or useful information that was gathered by did not pay extra attention to it will also go as a waste. Crowdsourcing also work the same as crowdfunding, it can be done online and offline. Another form of crowdsourcing could be game organization releasing their Beta testing server to allow players to help them test their game and get information from those players on bugs or ideas to improve their products. 

In my opinion, crowdfunding and crowdsourcing is already an everyday practices in the current era. Which all companies or organizations make good practices into crowdfunding and crowdsourcing. Crowdfunding can have disadvantages as well, as people might not want to donate or contributes to your project and it will take a long time to reach the target sets. Crowdsourcing is where people need to value the feedback and information that was contributed to them. I know that people who contributed to the information, ideas and feedback will get themselves some reward after they contributed, but if the information is not well treated, people will start to feel like it is just a waste of time to contribute into, and this will cost them to only give fake information, ideas and feedback, just to get themselves the reward for contributing their time. 

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Trolling and Social Media Conflict

Trolling is happening all around us now, people can be trolling their friends, people can be trolling their parents by doing something stupid or funny or can be pulling a prank. But in online social media trolling, things can be different. Some people take trolling to another level and this have become a cyber-bullying, criticizing people, throwing attacking speech or word on others. People maybe think that it could be a funny troll, but to the person who receive this kind of treatment, they might be getting hurt on their feeling, feel like they are getting attack, traumatize by others. This situation might even cost them to think of suicide, cost them to have mental illness or mental breakdown. It is a everyday things, sometimes when we open our Facebook, Twitter, or any news social media, we might see people suicide because of cyberbully or even costing someone else to change their behavior into violence. People might find it funny by doing so to others, but they themselves is actually trying to seek for attention from others, by putting one victims down. But when they never think about the cost and continue to make fun or criticize others because they think that others would laugh together with them, and they will get more attention by doing so. They are very daring to do something like this because, social media is a place where others might not be able to find out who you are, as you can use fake name, fake identity online that you might not act and talk like the way to present yourselves online. 

As this is spreading very fast, even children is on the social media even they are still young. So, even cases like a 10 years old children victims was cyber-bullied by their friends who posted they half naked online, because they want to “Shame” the friend, in front of their classmates. 

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2063980/children-aged-10-victims-cyberbullying-classmates

as practice keep going on, this is really unstoppable, because it is something that could happen no matter what age group you’re in. 

In my opinion, to counter this kind of situation, people need to know and learn on what they should share on their social media, not everything that you have posted in the social media, is shared with the same opinion among others. People might view this as an opportunities to attack others, to criticize or to make fun of. In the end, you might get more upset with it and cost you to have mental breakdown. Ways to prevent this is, people need to learn to do not care or ignore about what others say about them, as those are just their opinion and point of views on you, but you should understand more than anyone else about yourself. Then, those who could not hold their emotion, should go talk to their parents, family and friends, take some advice from people who really care about you. 

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Activism and Protest

Activism and protest is so happening now, Hong Kong Protest on China, because they want China to withdraw the latest rules that they are going to implement which is extradition from Hong Kong to mainland China. This is also because of Hong Kong and China have been living under a rare system which is “One Country Two Systems” where Hong Kong would enjoy "a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defense affairs". As China is coming out with this new rules, and Hong Kong is very angry about this, they claimed that if this rules is successfully implemented in Hong Kong, this would cost Hong Kong to sort of like losing their standing, even though China claimed that extradition will only happened to people who are religions, people who break rules, or criminal offensives. This protest is watch and followed closely by all the people around the worlds, even though it is not the first time happening already. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48607723

This protest is even brought up by an e-Sport player during the Blizzard post game interview after the tournament and he was punished by the Blizzard company for doing so. This is when all players over the world start to be worried about Blizzard company, and trying to cancel their subscription to the Company, especially “Overwatch” Gamer. As the game is well-known by western country and most of their major player too. When this case happens, Blizzard Fans and workers felt that, this action is a bit too extreme, so they are having a protect at their office in Irvine, where they are saying “Every Voice Matter” while holding an umbrella, which is a symbol of Hong Kong protester. After this incident happened, the League of Legends company CEO have stand out and said, They are focusing more on player, game and sport, and he hope that everyone keep their opinion to themselves, and they have refrain to their casters and players from discussing such topics during the event or on air. this is like they are begging everyone that please do not destroy their market and population. GUYS PLEASE KEEP YOUR OPINION TO YOURSELF!!! 

  In my opinion that, activism and protest sometime can be good, sometime it can be bad. It is totally depending on what are the citizen are protesting about. For example, Singapore is now still always passing out petition against NUS student. The story is all about a boy from NUS university, is molesting a girl in the MRT, and this case was brought up to court, but they boy got away from getting any hard punishment because he have good grade in the University. Such BULLSHIT?! Grade is not everything PLEASE! This is also not the first case that happen in Singapore now, there were cases like boy molested 8-year-old girl or 13-year-old girl. Oh my god, Singapore boy is that bastard? Have some respect to girl please.. I did not know about this case until i saw a YouTuber posted video about this petition, and i started to look into all the cases that have been happening in Singapore, which i found out that, most of the case was just a light punishment because all of them is doing good with their studies. But, Singapore prime minister have also stated that 

So, Molester is a sense should have face their serious judgement. not only light punishment, they will never learnt their lesson.  Back to the question on, will we go out to join the activism and protest or we will just stay at home and watch people doing the protest, i would say that, it depend on what protest and activism are they doing. Not all protest and activism is surely a good things. For example, Sarawak for Sarawakian want to pull Sarawak out from the Malaysia, but i do think that it is a weak opinion, people need to think about the Currency, the Rules, the Army or military and power that might come to claim us, it might be good idea to do so, because they want to be like Singapore, where such a tiny country that could be overtaking us in term of technology. But, it might be a different twist for us, if we do so. 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/petition-nus-student-terence-siow-mrt-molest-case-probation-11948074

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Political Engagement

Politic is just a topic that never get old, everyone will talk about it, everyone will look into the current politic issues, what is all the politicians is doing, what are they contributing, how are they interacting with all the citizens, all the things they do is always in the lime light. Back then, when we are overly relaying on the social media, we only get to know how was they politician doing by reading the newspaper. According to Satterfield (2016), social media play a large role in transforming information on political information, as all candidates will have their own page on Facebook and Twitter, it is easier for them to have a direct interactions with their supporter and help them with the issues they face. 

https://sysomos.com/2016/10/05/social-media-affects-politics/

Social media have also changed people understanding and gain them new knowledge about what is happening in the current news trend very effectively because people will keep sharing and forwarding news to their Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and WeChat. Back in the old days, where only newspaper have all those information, how many of them are true? how many of those information they share in the newspaper to the people at the state or region is actually a true and reliable information? When i remember back in Malaysia 2014 Election, everyone know that people who attended the Government team talks is only about 4000 - 5000 ish people written in the social media Facebook Page? but the newspaper have written it, more than 10000 people attended?????

Then, when it come to opposition news, obviously you can see in their photo on the newspaper, the crowd is just like ants, where that is about 20 thousand to 30 thousand people attended? but they wrote in the newspaper 5 thousand to 6 thousand?? but we all know that there’s a limit of what they can do and say. So throw that aside. 

As currently it is very effective to see that all the politicians is posting and writing information about what they are doing with pictures and videos in their social media, and citizens can know that they are actually doing their best to help solving problems for citizens to fight for the unfairness. Where this help more people to understand who is their right choice next time. 

In conclusion, i think that social media play a large role in political engagement is that all the news out there might be fake news, but looking at the politicians post and status, we can understand more about the person, it’s like getting to know someone new and this change a lot of the decision that people make, and this help them to get more knowledge about what is happening in the politics world and what is the current issues that the country is facing. 

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Is Tumblr a Blog or a Social Network Site?

Tumblr is a place where you can post anything that you want to post and be seen by other who share the same interest as you. how does people who have the same interest see the same thing? Because during our registration for a Tumblr account, you must choose what you like to see, for example, cat, dog, exercise, outdoor views and others. all this will be place under your preference list and they will show you what other who have the same preferences like to see as well. Sometimes people just want to express their own feeling at a random place, where they know that, they can do it in Tumblr, as we can just create a random sub account from our main account, and start posting more things about things that we do not like or do not agree on, like people will start posting about Government stuffs, and start criticizing them, or they can also post about people that they dislike or idol that they dislike and criticizing their album and what they do. So, they will that the opportunity to say whatever they want and no one will know, who is the writer. 

But back to the question, is Tumblr a blog or a social networking? To be honest, i can only say that it depend on what do you think about it, For me, i think it work both way, it can be a social networking and also a blog post sites. As traditionally blogging is only about writing text, but with Tumblr, you can put in photo, gifs and videos. So, you can’t really place Tumblr at either it is only for blogging or only for social networking. People can take this into seriously for only blogging or others may take it as a social networking to post things about memes, complaints and criticizing. 

references:

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-use-tumblr-4049305

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Given name

Ever wonder why human is given a name? Is it just easy identify of a person? But i do believe that, given name will also identify who you are and it identify your personality and attitude or fate in future. Given name in english, identify you in a way that, you will have a 50 50 chances that you will have the samr attitude/personality with people who have the same name as you.

Chinese name as well, each chinese given name can identify yourself and your fate. Each word will have their own meaning, combination of two words will ha e a different result as well, but it will still identify your personality and attitude. Some people might not get involved with it, there is also people who are involved in this theory.

#givenname #human

*ps: just a personal thought, no comment on your own opinion, everyone have their own ideas on this.