TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT IN MASS MEDIA HAS CHANGED SOCIETY & CULTURE

“ 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 th...

“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 ...