Moza Al Riyami

Monday, December 5

 Social media have a big part in electronic media, to understand the mechanism of use you have to enter social media world closely. Which mean, that you have accounts on different social platforms. You need to know the policy of using for each platform in order to avoid any type of cyber-crimes and to know types of posts that you can put and publish for each of them. 

The different topics related to social media makes me know more about it. I read more and search in order to write about some topics. While other topics because already I have read about it or I have get information before from a lecture or workshop, I can put my views and opinions about the topics without need to go and read in a book or website.  

 One of the most topics that makes me understand social media is social media sites as weapons. It makes me understand the way of using each platform, the policies and using of personal information in the profile. Also, the way of connect with others and the types of information and photos we posting in our posting. Knowing all that makes me improve my personal accounts in the different platforms.

 The topic of using social media by leaders give me a chance to search about different accounts for leaders around the world, in order to understand how they use their accounts and the differences between the leaders use and other people use. Also, differentiate between formal and informal accounts.

 Behind that, the males use for social media. The purposes of using, their treatment for social platform, the aims of use, which can give us the most reasons that makes boys use twitter or Facebook, or one of them. What things that push them to use social media and what the benefits they have after using.

Monday, November 21

For each era in the human life there are the tools they use to fight with others and attack them. In the era of technology development and technical development, social media have been used as a weapon to counter others, which lead to occurrence of cyber crimes.

The easy use of social media for most of people is making them able to show their daily life and present their opinions. They put their full personal information in the accounts profile, daily life details: what they are doing? Where they are? With Whom?

The cyber criminals use social media as weapons to attack people, and because most of users put their real personal information, the cyber criminal find an easy chance to harm and penetrate the personal life of others. On other hand, there are people who have a mania to know about everything in others life, so they start to use different ways in order to know everything about somebody.

Social media become dangerous sites when it falls into the hands of the perpetrators of crimes. Each person wants to use social media for his own aims should have an idea of using each mean, what the information he need to put and that ones he shouldn’t put for public. Photos and videos are also important thing need to think on how to use them in different sites.

Monday, November 14

In the currently time, most of people have used social media to interact with the internal and external environment. For each person, there are special aims that led him to use social media. This blog will view males use of social media.

 Treatment and use

 some boys said that social media is a mean of entertainment on free time and it is not a priority thing to use. Others said that it is a way of diary writing and record and save daily events and attitudes.  

There was who said it is like place that meet him with the other world. It’s a place where he connect with different people from anywhere in the world. Most of those boys unanimously agreed on that social media are a platforms for seeking latest news and information.

 Interaction

 They interact mostly when they have free time, and there was someone who said that his using for them is depending on his mood. Wahab al Saadi, mention that he use twitter to read more than tweeting and Ali al Mamari said to entertainment and take advantage of other students through asking and answering thing regarding to SQU.

 There are boys whose like to share their views and opinions on the issues and like to publish information about some services regarding to their experiences. Some journalism students mention that social media help them to reach for people and sources to complete their editorial materials.

 Aims

Those boys I have interview looking for different things through their using of social media. Malik al Ghfri said that he use face book to present his ideas on some social topics and issues. Also, he criticize some social events and services. Another one use face book to display his literary writings  and to preview others writing  and discuss with them.

November 9, 2016

By: Asma Majid & Moza Said

Monday, November 7, 2016

There are a lot of leaders and decision makers around the world have social media accounts and I think this is a good idea, because we are living in new media era and social media are a prominent means in this era.

 Access to the raised issues

Social media now have the power of transferring information, news, events and opinions around the world without limits. Also, they are quick and easy to use in anywhere and anytime as long as there is Internet connection.

 For leaders, social media help them to reach for the issues and problems raised by the people in the society and other countries, so they can put that issues in consideration when they make reforms plan. In addition to access to the world events quickly and sharing their opinions and views in world issues.

 Also, through their accounts they can support and encourage the youth through presenting their achievements and creations in different fields that serve the country, so social media can strengthening the relationship between the leaders and the citizens.

Leaders on social media

According to a study results published in BBC Arabic Network on June 2016, entitled "World leaders on Face book", the US president wins social networking sites in the field of political figures with more than 48 million a fan on his Face book account. He also have a twitter account with more than 11 million followers.

In Arab world, one of the most famous twitter account for the Arab leader is for HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President of the United Arab Emirates, the Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. His followers on twitter reached for seven million. He sharing his opinions and covering the events he went to. Also, he  tweet encourage and support messages for UAE youth and about the new UAE's achievements in various fields, as I have noted.

Who is the  professional I'm following?

 ·  Liz Kreutz, Digital Journalist at ABC News. Covering Hillary Clinton on the 2016 campaign trail.

·  Here is her stories in ABC News website : http://abcnews.go.com/Author/Liz_Kreutz

·  And this is her twitter account https://twitter.com/ABCLiz

 Week 1 :

·         Tweeting every day, the number of tweets this week : (63)

·         Numbers of quote tweets: (2)

·         Numbers of retweets: (3)

 Week 2:

 ·         Tweeting every day, the number of tweets this week: (100)

·         Numbers of quote tweets: (4)

·         Numbers of retweets: (5)

Week 3:

 ·         Tweeting every day, the number of tweets this week : (110)

·         Numbers of quote tweets: (4)

·         Numbers of retweets: (20)

  -          Using of Twitter:

 ·         Tweeting constantly, quote tweets and retweets

·         Using images and videos

·         Language was clear, using short tweets

·         Publish information and news

 -          Tweets evaluation:

 ·         Using news template

·         Provide information and data (Numbers)

·         Put comments for publish news

·         Tweet about the events that will happen

·         Mention related accounts

·         Put quotations (statements)

·         Live tweeting

·         Put videos

·         Screen shot for some tweets and write comments

·         Quote tweet for Hillary Clinton's tweets

·         Using  abbreviations

  -          Tweets effectiveness:

 ·         Tweets was a follow-up to the United States elections, specifically all about Hillary Clinton: her campaigns, debates and interviews and crowd. Putting Tweets, quotes, letters, news, images, videos. So, her tweets were effective because she is following all related news and events of election.

Monday October 31, 2016

Millennium Development Goals  are the set of goals that the United Nation put it for the member countries in order to make the world secure and without any problems makes the life bad quality. Oman is one of the countries that seeking for good and development life for the population.

Here I would like to write about some of that goals which the Sultanate have achieve them and the ones that will be achieve in short term.

 The first goal was eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. There was challenges to eliminate the percentage of poverty, but Oman have success on reduce number of poor people beyond the target set by the UN.

 Second goal was education, which is free in Oman and the effort of Ministry of Education have boost the levels of education from early childhood. The challenges here is how to provide high education opportunities for the high numbers of graduates and illiteracy between ages 15-24 years old.

 Third goal was promote gender equality and empower women, the aim is to eliminate gender disparity from early age. Oman is encouraging women and His Majesty specify a day for Omani women ad this was a step to empower women in the society which comes from trusting of her role in developing the society.

 Fourth goal and the last one I will talk about is the goal that Oman successfully achieve it, which was reduce child mortality both for under 5 year-olds and infant mortality. One reason for that was immunization rate in Oman, which is reach at 99%.

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Monday, October 24, 2016

 strengths:

-          Profiles were clear (Name and Major)

-          Headlines and subtitles

-          Using photos

-          Ideas were clear

-          Clear and short titles

-          Short sentences and

-          Using hash tags

-          Clear language

-          Using sources of topics and photos

-          Using of punctuation

-          Using points to clarify information

 Weaknesses:

-          There was some blogs misunderstand the topic

-          Long paragraphs

-          Spelling and grammar mistakes

-          Hash tags were missing in some blogs

-          No interesting titles

-          No dates

-          Misuse of prepositions

Visual arts are one of the communication ways that connect one society. It  have connotations and meanings between people in every society. When you mention that arts in a place people directly knows what did you mean.

 Sometimes the visual arts are presenting the identity of a society, gave an idea about the people live at that place. It can be writing or painting in walls, streets, trees and mountains.

 The image can be more clear message than writing, so visual arts can show and  analyze a message or aims of drawing. For examples in Oman people like to drew on walls and drilling words on trees, because it is an easy way to express their expression about something in their minds about the community.

 Sometimes, they use stones to write the name of city, village and club in the mountains beside the streets. For example, when I go home, I see "Fanja", a name of city was wrote in the mountain beside the street with white stones and clear way before I see the street panels also, in Nizwa there were wrote a name of a club with the same idea which was "al Shabab Club".

 There are other types of visual arts that people use it on their daily life especially the farmers who have gardens, which is "Sun Watch". It is a watch drawing in the sand with the use of stones and pole. It used in different wilayats around Oman for organizing the times of irrigation between the farmers.

Monday, October 17

Women have big roles in the society, they build and develop it beside men after having a good education and work. They can do their responsibility toward any work if there is respect and trust that they can do it and without downplay their abilities.

  Nowadays women have their place in the community, there are chances to be work pioneers, managers, leaders and other position that have been for men many years ago. Some of them doing their own business in different fields.

  There is people in the society who are still does not believe in women and their abilities in various work. They see them with old mind, which is housewives. Those people needs to be open-minded and change the old mind set against women through understanding the world changes and the community's needs, which is by highlighting women's achievements and success in various fields.

  So, now we can see that the world changes have affected the society view. The civil societies have encourage and support women empowerment through making them be independent and decision makers. The support is coming through:

  Provide women with financial and technical support to create sustainable projects to enable them to live with dignity and without the other need.

Support the small projects, in order to develop.  

Publish their achievements through different media platforms.

Take advantage of their ideas, and use it in projects and institutions.

Establish dedicated centers for women, such as: women societies.

  Women empowerment is also includes ensure the rights of working women and put them in work place that commensurate with the nature of their physique.

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10 Oct, 2016

Since the appearance and development of information technology, the social interaction in the real world is changing day by day. The means of communication have affected the social life of the people and affected the level of their relations, they become distant from each other.

 Benefits of information technology

 There are many advantages for new technology in all fields and sciences in the world. Here are some simple examples:

- The use of technology in new media and in all communication platforms: information, news and data.

- The use of it in scientific researches and medical studies: gathering information and publish the results.

- It used for developing the education: gathering information and sharing the experiences. The interactive between the teacher and student through online platforms.

 In addition to the personal use for information through using social media to connect with others, reading and sharing news. The new technology made all these processes more easy and with high speed.

 Disadvantages of information technology                                                                    

For everything developing in this world, there are many negative side. As the information technology gives the world a lot of food and advantages things, there are disadvantages for, here are some simple examples:

- The flow of information makes the world faster, while there are many countries crawling toward development of communication tools. Which makes big gap between developed and developing countries.

- At the level of people, some of  them are becoming dependent on technology more than their dependence on their minds, which is a problem lead to reproducing and repetition of the ideas.

 When there is an economic, security, political, social issues in a particular country, there should be a statement by officials in the same sector to clarify the issue for citizens and avoid the spread of rumors.

 When media publish statements, people's reactions on the issue begins growing, especially when those statements are not answering their questions, and when they are not being subjected to the details. And when the statements were unclear and received negative reactions from the public, here the official return to deny what was published in the media about what was said by the institution or company and will be state a new clear statement.

Sometimes, the delays in the statements about the issue raised the concern of citizens and thus people start to ask about what might happen and what are the results of the issue. In this case, the officials need to announce an urgent statement.

 In emergency situations, which require urgent statement to the media may include:

- Hide the origin of the problem, that may result on the bad reputation of the institution.

- Deny what is traded in the social media. - Trying to cover up the issue.

- Deny a  rumor.

- Denied an earlier statement.

- Denied a  news story with regard to the issue.

 Sometimes the official may accuse the media when the reactions on the issue being negative. The media workers should know how to protect themselves and prove what they have written and said with the clear evidence.

Human communication in the real life should be with a set of morals and  good manners such as listening,  pick the right words and respect points of view. Which means that we should stay away from harassment and shouting, in order to reach to a successful communication between the two sides.

  Communicate using social media

The same way should be when communicate in the virtual world through using internet and social media. In social media, people and specialists sometimes bring an issue in a society or any social, economic, politic, religious themes. The opinions and points of views are different between people, so this thing may lead to a difference of opinions and each one want to defending his opinion!

  A social media is a way of self-expression and a platform for express personal views as well as a space for freedom. Also, it used for publish photos, expressions and feelings. On the other hand, there are people whose just comment on others posts, and give their opinions. That comments sometimes includes bad words or offensive phrases resulting from dislikes what has been posted, which is a type of harassment.

  Causes

Some people do not accept the difference, so they want to show that they have the correct opinion. In addition, they show that they are the right ones, who know everything, the roles, morals and the system. This way of dealing may lead to a state of stress on the one who have published the post.

  The harassment on social media also may happen for companies, governmental institutions and other service institutions in the society, when they fail in provision of services for citizens in some fields. Here you can see the funny and sarcastic comments, which usually include bad or unsuitable words.

For further information on how to protect yourself from harassment, visit this site:

Within the tecnology developement, the new media have been a main way for communication around the world. It makes the work environment more easier. For example, it support the traditional journalism throuhg making websites and accounts on social media, in order to connect with events and specialists. It can present the events at the same moment even if it was in another country.

The usage of new media is unlimited. It use for education, work, our social life, and as a link between the citizen and the different institutions as well as with the word.

New media now a days playing different roles in the society. It is a good way for advertisment, promotion and publishing. Through it, we can exchange information and data in various fields, with high speed.