The Titanic Of A Titanic

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Titanic
Everyone knows or has at least have heard of the Titanic in some way. We know that it was supposed to be an unsinkable ship, and that is was just supposed to go on a voyage to New York before it hit an iceberg and sunk in the Atlantic on April 15, 1912. The Titanic plans and designs were accepted on the 29th of July in 1908. They immediately went to work shortly after on creating the ship. The ship was not entirely finished until March 31st in 1912 that on April 2nd they tested the boat on the sea. As the vessel was sailing towards the Southampton to pick up passengers, it was still on its test course. The ship only contained about 16 lifeboats that could hold about 65 people each. The number of people that were on the vessel was estimated to be about 2,227. On the way to New York, the seas were calm and clear but as they went on there were at least seven warnings for icebergs. Unfortunately, as they sailed on they hit an iceberg that caused a tear in the ship and water started to flood in. They began to evacuate the boat trying to get everyone off. Unfortunately, the boat sunk on the 15th of April in 1912 around 2 am. Many lives were saved that night, but there were many lives that were also lost.
If Interactive media had been around during this time
Facebook- If Facebook had been around at this time we would have seen event post for people to join this voyage or for people to post pictures of the ship. We would have seen a lot of post about the Titanic and how people would have been so excited to go on this voyage. There also would have been a post about the ship going down, and some of the guest and survivors would have put things up online. It could have played a big role in getting the word around about the ship a...

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...ed, and one that I hope doesn’t happen again. The assignment could relate to last week’s discussion on the Politics of Convergence. If theses social sites were around people would have been able to use push media by broadcasting this in the newspapers or on social sites. Then they could have used pull media by creating hashtags and such to get the event thrown out for people to see and could have created a contest for the ship so they would get noticed. Communication protocols could have also been used because people would be sending pictures and videos to their friends and many if Facebook and such had existed. They also would have been sharing videos of the activities that were going on or inviting someone else on the ship to join them. In all of the theses, it was mostly people just being able to post pictures and videos would get the word out about the Titanic.

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