Advantages of New Media
There
are a lot of advantages of new media, for instant we can tweet and
check our status updates on facebook from our phones. We have the whole
internet in the back of our pocket. We no longer have to wait on the
morning newspaper because we have the internet, the news channels have
breaking news now, channels like RTE, SkyNews, Fox and CNN have a bar on
the bottom of the screen with the headlines of news and when breaking
news occurs it covers it also with the internet we have a wider range of
sources on some topics we can search till we find unbiased opinions of
the news. We can directly call people using skype free calls over the
Internet. It’s great for people who are living in America or Canada and
can talk to ones at home. We have more options of communicating now
thanks to smartphones there is tons of apps that we can get which allows
us to talk and send texts for free. We can create media ourselves with
the Internet we can create our own blogs and post our views of global
events.
Apple
have released I-cloud this allows to work from our I-pads or I-phones
and it sends our updates on presentations on our computers, if we
download music or take pictures on the I-phone they will be on our home
computer. We can see that the “medium” of new media is the Internet and
it has control over us because of the amount of hours we spend on it a
day.
Disadvantages of New Media
New media has a lot of
disadvantages to it as well for instance we spend a lot of our time on
social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter etc. that we don’t
interact with our fellow students or work colleagues as much. News
spreads fast on the Internet at an uncontrollable rate once it on the
Internet it’s hard to get it off. Also if we are searching news topics
online we can find some extreme views on the subject that we might find
disturbing. Another disadvantage is cyber bullying children at school
could be getting bullied non stop when they go home and go on to sites
like Facebook and Bebo and there still getting bullied this could cause
the child to get depressed or worse kill themselves. Paedophiles and
stalkers can use social networking websites to get valuable information
on there pray, during the riots in England people could go on YouTube
and watch footage of it. The people in the riots took pictures and
posted them on the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Terrorist use the
Internet to post video of potential attacks. We have no privacy online
anymore any picture we post of ourselves are on the Internet for good
it’s not safe for us to put any valuable information online because
someone could steal your identity online use your credit card to buy
anything. We can see that we our controlled by the Internet but it can
be danger for some who put themselves at risk be outing their
information online for people to look and steal.
BY MINZI CATHERINE L.
BAPRM 42616
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