Virtual Album of Mass Communication Media on Stamps - New Media, Social Media, Virtual Worlds

Mass Communication Media on Stamps The Internet, The World Wide Web New Media, Social Media, Virtual Worlds
The World Wide Web The World Wide Web revolutionized mass communication when it brought the text-based Internet to life by adding still images, motion video and audio. Today, billions of people use Web browsers to access the Internet for news, entertainment, business, and education. New Media appear in many forms including blogs and microblogs, forums and message boards, social networks, wikis, virtual worlds, social bookmarking, tagging and news, writing communities, digital storytelling and scrapbooking, and data, content, image and video sharing, podcast portals, and collective intelligence. There are lots of well-known sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, Wikipedia, Wetpaint, PBworks, Wikidot, Second Life, Delicious, Digg, Reddit, Lulu and others. The definition of social media is evolving with most explanations describing a fusion of Internet technology, social interaction, and the sharing of information. Social media are popular Web sites where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about each other and their lives, using a multimedia mix of personal words, pictures, videos and audio. At these Internet sites, individuals and groups create and exchange content and engage in person-to-person conversations. Web 2.0 is a general term that refers to recent trends in online media toward new media and social media, rather than a shift in technology. Computer Graphics Computer graphics are images created and manipulated using specialized software applications in digital computers. Computer graphics have made it easier to interact with and understand all types of data. Computer graphics have had a profound impact on mass media, revolutionizing production of videos, animations, movies, game and virtual reality. Today, artists, graphic designers, filmmakers and many other specialists us powerful graphics software on affordable computers to create everything from abstract paintings to movie special effects. Computer graphics include almost anything created on computers other than text and sound. Computer generated images are 2D, 3D, and animated. With recent improvements in technology, 3D graphics have become more common. However, 2D graphics still are widely used. Virtual Reality Employing computers with software capable of 3D rendering of images, virtual reality creates virtual worlds that are used in video games and in applications ranging from architecture to surgery. A virtual world is an imaginary place synthesized inside a computer where individuals looking at a computer monitor can feel as if they are in a real world or a fantasy world. People interact with one another in a virtual world by networking their systems and sharing the synthetic space. An avatar is the on-screen representation of a person in a virtual world. Today, the virtual worlds that people inhabit and where they interact are three-dimensional graphical environments on the Internet. The residents are graphical avatars visible to each other. An individual user experiences telepresence – a sense of presence or being present somewhere with other people and objects. While there are more than 100 virtual worlds on the Internet, Second Life is the best known at this time with some 25 million residents. People add to the virtual environment by creating all sorts of objects there – such as avatars, clothing, vehicles, utensils, landscapes and objet d'art.

Mass Communication Media on Stamps
The Internet, The World Wide Web
New Media, Social Media, Virtual Worlds

The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web revolutionized mass communication when it brought the text-based Internet to life by adding still images, motion video and audio. Today, billions of people use Web browsers to access the Internet for news, entertainment, business, and education.

New Media appear in many forms including blogs and microblogs, forums and message boards, social networks, wikis, virtual worlds, social bookmarking, tagging and news, writing communities, digital storytelling and scrapbooking, and data, content, image and video sharing, podcast portals, and collective intelligence.

There are lots of well-known sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, Wikipedia, Wetpaint, PBworks, Wikidot, Second Life, Delicious, Digg, Reddit, Lulu and others.

The definition of social media is evolving with most explanations describing a fusion of Internet technology, social interaction, and the sharing of information. Social media are popular Web sites where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about each other and their lives, using a multimedia mix of personal words, pictures, videos and audio. At these Internet sites, individuals and groups create and exchange content and engage in person-to-person conversations.

Web 2.0 is a general term that refers to recent trends in online media toward new media and social media, rather than a shift in technology.

computer art

Computer Graphics

Computer graphics are images created and manipulated using specialized software applications in digital computers.

Computer graphics have made it easier to interact with and understand all types of data.

Computer graphics have had a profound impact on mass media, revolutionizing production of videos, animations, movies, game and virtual reality.

Today, artists, graphic designers, filmmakers and many other specialists us powerful graphics software on affordable computers to create everything from abstract paintings to movie special effects.

Computer graphics include almost anything created on computers other than text and sound.

Computer generated images are 2D, 3D, and animated. With recent improvements in technology, 3D graphics have become more common. However, 2D graphics still are widely used.

Virtual Reality

Employing computers with software capable of 3D rendering of images, virtual reality creates virtual worlds that are used in video games and in applications ranging from architecture to surgery.

A virtual world is an imaginary place synthesized inside a computer where individuals looking at a computer monitor can feel as if they are in a real world or a fantasy world.

People interact with one another in a virtual world by networking their systems and sharing the synthetic space. An avatar is the on-screen representation of a person in a virtual world.

Today, the virtual worlds that people inhabit and where they interact are three-dimensional graphical environments on the Internet. The residents are graphical avatars visible to each other. An individual user experiences telepresence – a sense of presence or being present somewhere with other people and objects.

While there are more than 100 virtual worlds on the Internet, Second Life is the best known at this time with some 25 million residents.

People add to the virtual environment by creating all sorts of objects there – such as avatars, clothing, vehicles, utensils, landscapes and objet d'art.

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