MSN

MSN is basically an online service which you can install onto your computer. It’s main aim is to let you interact with others who also have the service installed, what it’s replacing in a way is the need to communicate with others by any other means e.g. actually meeting up with them in order to let them know something, this works in most cases, you can send videos and pictures over msn (depending on how new your version is) but you can’t physically give them something through it.

A lot of different people use MSN, from kids in their early teens to grown men/women in their 40’s. As I said before the main objective for using MSN is to communicate with others but as MSN has improved it’s capable of a lot more now. You can now have video and audio conversations if you own a webcam and a microphone for your computer, you can send images/audio/videos over msn and you can play games such as minesweeper with whoever you are talking to. MSN offers a different way of communicating with people instead of talking face to face.

The media texts involved are those which MSN enables you to do which include games such as minesweeper and obviously a lot of different songs/singles as you can send these over msn, you can obviously also give links through MSN conversations to any website.

The obvious key concept in this case study is interactivity, MSN is all about being interactive but not from MSN to you, it gives you a chance to be interactive with others.