Hung Nguyen's Learning Journal

Innovation and Investment LJ4 Understanding social media trends also means that you must be able to predict the next technological breakthrough and the preferences of the current and upcoming human generations. Many people believed that social media trends have always been set by influencers and celebrities, but in my mind, entrepreneurs have always been the ones who held that crucial role. Since entrepreneurs are those that can quickly capture the movements of the young generations and expand beyond everyone's expectations with innovations and technology, they have essentially developed and created those mobile applications of social media platforms for us to use with convenience. Smartphones or just portable devices in general have become a necessity in everyone's life, and come with them is a wide variety of mobile features and social applications. Having start-ups with great innovative ideas willing to spend efforts and time, in addition to angel investors that are willing ...

Social Media Metrics and Analytics: lj3 From the "We Are Data" reading and previous materials, I now know that every activity we do online leave behind digital traces, which then are picked up by algorithms to create personal databases of our "online" selves. And the same also applies to social media, Application Program Interface (API) is what allows data to be shared across social media which will then be organized by social network algorithms to group similar data categories together. There are multiple social media metrics for performance such as followers, interactions, popularity, and these metrics will inform the users of their social selves, which are also derived from data that the algorithms collected from digital traces. The word cloud visualization I did last couple of weeks was an excellent example of metadata, which is data about data, of how data are collected and grouped together through keyword detection just like how word clouds are created. It doe...

Time Diary For the time diary assignment, I choose Instagram because it's my favorite social media platform and where I express myself the most. Since the Instagram app on the computer has fewer functions and shortcuts, I only used Instagram on mobile, plus the convenience of using it when you can lie down comfortably as well. I never actually spend too much time on a social media platform unless the content posted is really attractive or there's a live stream of my favorite content creators, so my usage is usually short 5 - 10 minutes sessions of checking out friends' stories and celebrity news on the platform. And each session happens every hour and a half or when I get bored I will just constantly check on Instagram for entertainment. Besides the small checking sessions, I also usually chat with my friend on the platform and most conversations start with a story reply or when we share funny content with each other. On average, I would say that I spend around 20 minutes p...

Data from Privacy: lj 2 The "We are Data" reading part provides us with knowledge about data privacy and essentially the personalization of the Internet based on the data of each individual person throughout the globe. Starting with the "right to be forgotten" by EU courts forced upon Google in 2014, where "European users can submit a takedown request of European search results that are "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to those purposes and in the light of the time that has elapsed" (Cheney-Lippold, 2019) . Even though "scientific positivism of the twentieth century" demands that we let data speak for itself, but as cited in the book "data cannot speak for itself and doesn't appear out of the wild" because humans collect data, manipulate them, and then massage them to explain the phenomenon, therefore, who else besides human which has the power of speaking for the data and shaping our view...

Hands-On Assignment 2 Part A To me, media are every form of communication between people to people such as Tv, radio, flyers, billboards, etc..., even reporters and anchormen or anchorwomen are considered parts of media. Social networking is basically just people-to-people communicating through dedicated online websites or applications, and it has been rapidly developing due to the increasing need for real-time communication. I'm currently using 8 social media sites: Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitch, Reddit, Linkedin, Handshake, and Indeed. With Facebook, I mostly use them to communicate with friends or family because I have multiple relatives that use this site so I also use it to easily communicate with them, I rarely post anything or keep track of news on Facebook. As for Instagram, I mainly use it to express myself through random pictures that I find interesting and my art, and I feel freer on Instagram because it provides more privacy for users. Most of the short entertain...

 Personal Comprehension of Social Media: LJ1 Throughout the last decade, technology and communications have been simultaneously developing at a substantial rate, hence, the birth of social media and its accompanying technology. When I first got introduced to it, I was skeptical about it because of its security since you have to provide your personal information online and people can see it. However, after listening to friends' reviews, and realizing it's an excellent alternative to face-to-face conversation, I have decided to take a chance and use it. Self-expression has always been an issue because I rarely use words to express myself, and self-expression is basically doing your routine and habits, and people will evaluate you from your behaviors to predict your characteristics and personality. The first social media platform I used was Facebook, and I often focused on myself back then, I would post everything about my daily life, every hilarious post that I found, and everyth...

Welcome to my blog My name is Hung Nguyen and I'm an international student from Vietnam, but I have friends and relatives in Orange County, California so I mainly go there to visit them when I'm not in the Tampa area. My major is Business Analytics and Information Systems, which is primarily about analyzing data to help businesses grow, and my minor relates to sensory marketing analysis which revolves around marketing based on the 5 senses. Two of my combined interests are that I love sports cars and I love to use them to travel to mountainous areas for beautiful, magnificent views. I tried to pick a career path that would most beneficial to this hobby as it helps me travel to many places while providing a stable amount of salary. Another hobby that I enjoyed doing is reading books while it is raining, as it really isn't the quietest but it is certainly calm and tranquil which is suitable for my ideal reading environment's conditions. One part-time job that I used to ha...