TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT IN MASS MEDIA HAS CHANGED SOCIETY & CULTURE

Technology today allows us to instantly find answers online, access to media, capture a moment, communicate with someone and expect results instantly. I chose to discuss improvement on instant gratification, newsgathering and texting over talking. We want it now, now, now and we won't settle for anything less. This instant gratification stunts children's ability to build, to allow to be critical consumers of media (Weinberger, 2014). This has become a cultural limitation because, children today they don't understand learning comes at the end of doing, says Weinberger. A recommendation from Weinberger is that in children we focus on effort not on outcome. I think this will work with us as adults as well.   The instant answers and access isn't necessary for us, put it’s become a part of us and it is because it is convenient, but defiantly not a need to have everything be done faster and immediately. The technology is here to stay for while at least, but we can lessen t

Reposted from April 30, 2017 The definition of news gathering is of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting news, according to dictionary.com. One of the ways technology has changed the work of communicators is by crowd sourcing and news gathering. The crowd or audience can add a location or topic to a social media post with a hashtag (#) to create a story trending and a chain of posts connected, providing information for journalists. Crowd sourcing gives the people a voice in the news gathering, according to Kolodzy (2013, p. 38). The audience is going to get closer to the story “is going to get closer to the story, get closer to us and we need to keep pace with the way the audience expectations are changing in terms of how we are reporting the news but also how we are bringing people to the conversation and reporting back what they are telling us as well, according to Marrouch (2014). The crowd sourcing provides communicators a faster way to have more informatio

Reposted from April 30, 2017 Technology has changed the work of communicators and their storytelling, and as it evolves so will the training. Storytelling moved opera to vaudeville, radio news to radio theater, film to film in motion to film in sound, color, 3D, on VHS and on DVD, according to Sabia (2011). Sabia’s TED talk discusses the evolution of storytelling and how the internet and social media have impacted storytelling by providing a farther reach than ever before. Social media allows us to share with others our own stories through video, photo and text. In 6,000 years of storytelling, it’s gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls, says Sabia. Because of the internet people can broadcast their stories via social media globally. The technology changes has influenced training for communicators to learn digital tools and technology. The audience for this type of storytelling is now a global audience, and reaching them in a shorter a

Reposted from April 30, 2017 Technology has changed the collaboration and work of communicators with co-workers and team members. Seventy-nine perfect of people work on virtual teams, according to Burg (2013). Collaboration used to happen in board rooms with white boards and bagels. Today it’s on documents being edited by multiple people all over the world, says Burg. This is true as meetings I have been in we use documents edited by people in other places. With technology like The Cloud, communicators can collaborate on a project together without having to be in the same location or even in the same country. Everything you need is file wise, since accessible on a device will be close to you on The Cloud. Everything you need is physically close to you, which means accessing your data is fast and easy, as Griffth (2016). Being a communicator, there are times one may be traveling, out in the “field” and not at their desk and computers, and needs access to their files and connections

“ Technology wants what life wants. Increasing efficiency; increasing opportunity; increasing emergence; increasing complexity; increasing diversity; increasing freedom; increasing beauty and increasing evaluability”, said Kevin Kelly according to Wu (2014). Technology’s advancements have us wanting instant connection, instant updates, and instantly having a page load. Waiting for anything to load or change over, because of slow internet or weak Wi-Fi signal has somehow become frustrating to us and feels like forever. It becomes really annoying like we don’t have time for it, yet is just a few seconds more. According to Muther (2013), the demand for instant results is seeping into every corner of our lives, and not just virtually.  It happens when at stores, in traffic and even waiting for coffee, I see the impatience in people. As Muther points out, instant gratification come at a price: it’s. Making us less patient. We have come as a society to expect things now and quickly that i

“I would rather text than talk” Turkle (2012) The influence of the internet has been most significant in the way it has transformed the lives of young people, according to Furedi (2015). They are growing up today not knowing or wanting to have an actual face to face conversation. They are growing up with the technology that we have become comfortably glued to daily. They use emoji’s when communicating which are just images representing a facial expression, animal, food, sport or location and more. Turkle (2012) says that people say what's wrong with having a conversation is that it takes place in real time and you can’t control what you're going to say. Turkle continues that texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want it to be. Turkle’s TED talk continues to say that people get so used to being short-changed out of real conversation. Because conversations are being short-changed, we turn to social media to say what we are thinking

The nature of communication has changed significantly over the last few decades with the advent of the internet and mobile communication, according to Diane, Mieczakowski, Johnson, Goldhaber & Clarkson (2016, p. 219).  The communication amongst families and friends has changed. We don’t talk face to face anymore or call as often, and parents don’t talk to their kids like they did when I grew up. Byrom (2015) says that child development experts worry that cell phones ad personal computer devices, that are now common fixtures at the dinner table, distract from their children (and vice versa) and prevent them from engaging. As Turkle (2012) discusses in her TED talk, parents text and do email at breakfast and at dinner while their children complain about not having their parents attention. Technologies are providing important connections as families are scattered across the globe to stay connected and engage in remote care giving, according to Bynum (2015). I know that fami