Tuesday, May 25
Yee Tat/ Has New Media Changed Our Lives For The Better
New media has changed our lives for the better as it allows the spread of information to occur at a faster rate and greater quantity. People no longer have to meet up just for the sake of talking in order for them to catch up with each other’s activities. In the context of our society today, forms of new media include the Internet, digitally enhanced media to allow them to be interactive. These technologies enable friends living far apart to keep up to date with each other with ease. Before the introduction of sites that allows online chatting like Windows Live Messenger, people had to go to trouble of calling other people, as an added bonus, it is free compared to calling overseas which costs money. Critics of these online networking sites claim these sites reduce face to face contact which may result in them being more isolated from others. This is an exaggeration in my opinion. With a large majority of youths using these sites, they still meet up regularly as these sites are in addition to a means of communication instead of replacing the traditional means. Therefore new media is an added convenience to people as it makes the spread of information easier.
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New media has changed our lives for the better as it allows the spread of information to occur at a faster rate and greater quantity. People no longer have to meet up just for the sake of talking in order for them to catch up with each other’s activities. In the context of our society today, forms of new media include the Internet, digitally enhanced media to allow them to be interactive.
ReplyDeleteyour points on the old (meeting up) and the new (faster comm) seems to be targetting technology or MASS media and how MASS media has benefitted our lives rather than NEW media.
you almost got it right when you said it allows people to be interactive but you lost your point in your example. how does this interactivity work and how has it been beneficial in the way we communicate information? instead of just being faster, could it be that we have more control on what we know/ what we want people to know?