What is Digg?... and all these other sites

Digg, Second Life, Four Square, Gowalla... all of these are familiar names to me, but why? The answer is because I’m enrolled in Social World 230. But what about those that don’t have the luxury of learning about new media every Tuesday and Thursday?

To them, these names are as foreign as the Zulu Nation. Simply put, these internet “phenomena” are not as phenomenal as they are played off to be. Before coming to Butler, I never once visited any of these sites. It wasn’t due to lack of interest but simply due to ignorance.

If I ask any of my friends or colleagues who are not enrolled in the class, they too will say that they have never heard of these sites.

While it may seem like my point so far has been to attack the class, it surely is not. What I’m trying to say is that some our New Media outlets are not as popular as it may seem. My theory is that it is because we are just entering the now entering the age New Media. Therefore, my learning of these media outlets will be extremely useful in the near future.