Sociology Learners

Introduction to Media and Technology

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&NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Modern technology helps in making the need of information and flow effective and quick&period; And this could be possible through internet- a medium&period; It means internet provide facility to everyone&comma; by making effective communication fast and cheap&period; News of United Kingdom is now made available in Canada and other countries&comma; accessible to millions of people at a time&period; Modern technology&comma; fast growing media and Internet is now a necessity for people&period; Internet is a place&comma; where people spend a great proportion of the day&comma; now brought multiple social communities at one forum&comma; where they can message&comma; chat&comma; extract information m&comma; share beliefs&comma; and share their interest or information&period; It is the center of use for billions of users&comma; hence&comma; use as the medium for products and brand advertisement&comma; however this is quite different with the conventional advertisings&period; These consider and take the information flow rapidly and inspired people more in one time than traditional advertising agencies&period; Social networking is a part of modern technology&comma; which became the significant part of the life &lpar;Flew&comma; 2007&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">According to Berker&comma; Hartmann&comma; and Punie&comma; &lpar;2005&rpar;&comma; this is in the age pf computer&comma; where &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;information society” is acquired the broad currency for describing a context within where&comma; individuals are living&period; Developed countries&comma; like United Kingdom&comma; United States&comma; etc&period; were evolved from industrial to information society&period; Industrial revolution was done before communication revolution and now both are comparable&period; They both influenced the leisure and work separately and also the way of thinking and feeling about the time and place&comma; however&comma; existence of controversies present in their political&comma; economic&comma; cultural&comma; and social implications&period; Gains were weighed and adverse effects were compared&period; Thus&comma; proving that generalization was difficult&period; Journalists and press wrote and their critics are also present&period; Media&comma; in form of television&comma; newspaper&comma; social media&comma; internet etc&period; were attacked comprehensively for the consumption of energy and time&comma; and ignore the basics of life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Not everyone agrees or disagree with the communication revolution causes and effects&period; The words &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;effect” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;causes”&comma; have been applicable and previously applied to every technological advancement&comma; from steam engine to computer&comma; from telephone to smartphone&comma; and others are inadequate&period; It is impossible to isolate the single effect&comma; whether small or big&period; Technology does not describe it by itself&period; And hence&comma; the same technology could be used for multiple purposes and in various ways in social and political context &lpar;Lister&comma; Giddings&comma; Dovey&comma; Grant&comma; and Kelly&comma; 2008&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The past ten years has brought the technology innovation in light- internet&period; Internet helps the media in various forms&period; It altered the geographical distance&comma; which help in viewing the news of one country in different parts of the world&period; It further allow the increase in volume of the communication&comma; and so media is all about communication in different form&period; It provide the increasing possibility of communication speed&period; There are multiple opportunities provided for the interactive communication&period; It allows different forms of effective communication&comma; which was separated for interconnection and overlapping &lpar;Flew&comma; 2007&rpar;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; there are three main strong features of the internet&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The removal and disintermediation of the brokers allow the direct communication around the sociometric and spatial distance&semi; removal of Asynchronicyty of temporality&comma; as the barrier for communication&semi; the ability or Oculacy for communicating the messages by images&period; The widespread of advance technology&comma; including ICT-Information and Communication technological&comma; commonly referred as the indicator of post-modern globalization era and pre-condition of intensive era which enhance the interaction across the globe&comma; and exchange of services&comma; goods&comma; capital and information&period; On its contrary&comma; it has been believed that popularity of WWW is the commercial medium as compare to other medium&comma; is because of its ability in facilitating the sharing of resources and information across the globe&comma; and potentiality for providing the efficient and effective channel for the marketing&comma; advertising&comma; and direct distribution or delivery of information and goods&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Social networking is the phenomena&comma; which has seen quick and rapid growth in last some years&period; These are websites where individuals develop their social networks of associates and friends&comma; and also create&comma; give or share the information on same interests&comma; lifestyles&comma; information and tastes&period; These social networking websites are more like communities&period; These websites have gained immense popularity and increment in the information sharing&period; Media can use these information for their benefits&period; The media is vast and growing increasingly&comma; with the support of the technology &lpar;Buckingham&comma; 2007&rpar;&period; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"left">References<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"left">Berker&comma; T&period;&comma; Hartmann&comma; M&period; and Punie&comma; Y&period;&comma; 2005&period; Domestication of media and technology&period; McGraw-Hill Education &lpar;UK&rpar;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Buckingham&comma; D&period;&comma; 2007&period; Media education goes digital&colon; an introduction&period; Learning&comma; Media and Technology&comma; 32&lpar;2&rpar;&comma; pp&period;111-119&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Flew&comma; T&period;&comma; 2007&period; New media&colon; An introduction&period; Oxford&colon; Oxford University Press&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lister&comma; M&period;&comma; Giddings&comma; S&period;&comma; Dovey&comma; J&period;&comma; Grant&comma; I&period; and Kelly&comma; K&period;&comma; 2008&period; New media&colon; A critical introduction&period; Routledge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&NewLine;<&excl;--CusAds0-->&NewLine;<div style&equals;"font-size&colon; 0px&semi; height&colon; 0px&semi; line-height&colon; 0px&semi; margin&colon; 0&semi; padding&colon; 0&semi; clear&colon; both&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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