Lecture Day 4

New Media, Internet Studies and CyberCultural Studies is the topic of today's lecture.

I would like to define the concept of media. According to Wikipedia, media is for help of playing audio and video files. But to me, I think media in today's wold might defined as massive media which includes the Interent, cable network and publications. Since the Internet was invented, there is a revolution in media. It attract more and more people apart from cable network (television) and publications (newspaper and magazine). The Internet changes many people's life.

The concept of internet studies is defined as a field of academia dealing with the interaction between the Internet and modern society, and the sociological and technological implications on one another in Wikipedia. The existing of this this study is really important. There are many issues with the internet users such as addition. The study not only relevant to pysychnology but also linked to the development of the Internet.

CyberCultures is really popular to young people. They bring the online lifestyle to the real life. They make friends online while they hang out with these people offline. They purchases goods on the Internet while they receive the goods at home. They use some cyber language on their computers while they write or send the cybers language in the real life. Cyberculture is also named as a cool lifestyle to these people.