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This Cloud uses words that are associated with Residential Schools, Truth and reconciliation, First Nations people, and a graphic novel (Sugar Falls) written by David Alexander Robertson. Sugar Falls is a graphic novel portraying the traumatizing experience of young girls who were taken from their homes to attend school purposed to pressed their people and cultures.
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SoundCloud
Since its launch in 2008, Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, the founders of SoundCloud, have made, “The world’s largest music and audio platform” (SoundCloud 2019). Developed in Berlin, Germany, the app is now worth 800 million dollars. Soundcloud rakes in all its money through monthly subscriptions that allow the user to remove advertisements and listen to music offline, and advertisements for those who do not pay the monthly subscription. The purpose of SoundCloud was to share and promote one’s music without the need for a label or distributor, and this purpose has been and is currently being fulfilled. One supporter of the app commented saying, “mainstream music is not my choice, my taste is more towards independent music makers and SoundCloud is just the place for that”(Shubham Sharma 2020). Although Soundcloud is rated 18+ some think it’s safe for 12+ as some of the audios can be vulgar and inappropriate, compared to Spotify’s 12+ and wide music range, the ratings should be similar. Some words or phrases that have been commonly used when talking about SoundCloud include, “Yo! we makin’ it out the hood” (the guys who didn’t make it out the hood). Another term used towards artists on Soundcloud is a Soundcloud rapper. SoundCloud has produced many mainstream artists we hear on the radio today, artists such as Lil Uzi Vert, Ski Mask The Slump God, Travis Scott, Post Malone, Trippie Redd, and many more. SoundCloud is still being used by millions and will continue to produce mainstream artists as, “SoundCloud starts a career, while Spotify cements it” (MysticDN 2019).
first image: “Soundcloud”. Venta Software. Sep.15.2021, https://ventasoftware.com/being-a-soundcloud-artist/
second image: Sgalbazzini, Marco. “Soundcloud”. 6amgroup. Sep.15.2021, https://www.6amgroup.com/soundcloud-annual-revenue-increased-43-to-nearly-28-million/
third image: axe802 “Soundcloud Wallpaper”. Deviant art. Sep.15.2021, https://www.deviantart.com/axe802/art/Soundcloud-Wallpaper-484879386
sources:
“Ways to get better at being a soundcloud artist”. Venta software. https://ventasoftware.com/being-a-soundcloud-artist/
Cleyn, Charles. “Spotify vs SoundCloud – An honest comparison”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXZfeFrAzE0
“About SoundCloud”. Soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/pages/contact
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New Media Intro
Ryan Antosh
2021-09-03
New media is the modern way to gather information, whether it is on your computer smartphone, or tablet, information is on-demand and at the push of a button. Where traditional media (radio, articles, television) is programmed at a specific time and not as accessible as the new media. Media consumption varies from person to person but personally, would switch from social media to games to shows and back throughout the day. Some days, the time used on media will be different from others depending on what happens throughout the day but all the same, my media intake is staggered and fragmented. A healthy way to limit your media use is to have screen time to remind someone how long they are in front of a screen. Having a balance in your day-to-day life is important and it’s believed social media disrupts this balance in many of us today and may shape the ways we think and act just as Faris Yakob stated, “You are the media you eat” (2016). Many of the media we gather from various sources may be misleading and false, a way to ensure one finds truthful information is to do a background check on the website. It is possible to inspect the author, read comments, and double-check the information with other sites, look at the domain to see if the sites are secure, or just use common sense and judge it by its display and name because, “none of it is rocket science” (Mantzarlis 2008).
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