Post 5- eBay

The website I choose to use was eBay. This is because eBay is on of the largest online shopping centers for bargain cost. By bargain cost, I’m meaning that you can choose what you pay for most of the items that are sold by online bidding. Items are put on eBay by individual wishing to sell their items to a wide variety of audience for a little charge form the company. I would call this the peer-to-peer model because eBay plays as a middleman in the transactions that are performed on the website. When coming to eBay does not play much of a roll for the customer because he or she is likely to use another website called PayPal. This is because your money is safer this way than paying through eBay, which seems to be very inefficient. EBay is a very good site if you are looking for deals because most of the people that post items on the website are in dire need to get rid of it allowing consumers to have an opportunity to receive huge bargains. I have used eBay many times and every time I have successfully saved money on items that I would have normally paid a good but more for. This website is a helpful tool when wanting to buy higher priced items at discount cost if you can master the bidding techniques.

Blog 4

The authors understanding of a convergence culture is “where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media intersect, where the power of the media producers and the power of the media consumer interact in unpredictable ways. What I would say convergence culture is the relationship between different cultures (countries) through media. I say this because in the text it refers to the Osama Bin Laden picture with a character from Sesame Street. All through out the world you are able to get on the Internet and access things that are in America. Like wise in our country we can find books and articles from other parts of the world. Therefore, making the Internet a huge part of convergence culture because it is there for us and is easy to access. This were media history comes in. everything that has been uploaded in the past decades is still on the Internet. We can see how far we have come along by looking at these things. For example, we use to use to only upload picture to MySpace. Nowadays we have just on social media site for that, then we have another for just what we are thinking. We can look back to see hoe much we have grown as a society. Almost everyone participates in media because almost everyone has a Facebook or some sort of social media site. If not most people have a smart phone that they have access to the Internet at any given moment. Our society use to be a print society and has changed completely to a more advanced society with smart phones, tablets, and computers with unlimited connects with anyone around the world.