Transformations in Media (Midterm)



Table of Content

Answer One: Ways in Which New Media Devices Affect Our Communication Activities and Practices, As Well As Larger Social Arrangements and Organizations7

Introduction7

Discussion7

New Media Devices and Social Dimensions8

New Media Devices and News Consumption9

New Media Devices and Consumers10

Conclusion10

Answer Two: “Selfie” Phenomenon from CBC's The Current & McLuhan's model of the tetrad11

Selfie Phenomena from CBC's The Current & New Media Hype11

McLuhan's Model of The Tetrad & New Communicative Practice12

Answer Three: Consequences of the “Always On and Always Connected” Capabilities of Mobile Communication & Its Implications for Us Socially, Professionally, and Culturally13

Introduction13

Discussion14

Conclusion15

References16

Transformations in Media (Midterm)

Answer One: Ways in Which New Media Devices Affect Our Communication Activities and Practices, As Well As Larger Social Arrangements and Organizations

Introduction

21st Century's most significant term is 'New Media', which refers to define all the things related to the internet and the interplay between technologies, sound, and images (Socha & Schmid, 2012). In fact, new media morphs and evolves on a rapid pace and therefore its definition changes regularly on will keep on changing. With this rapidly advancing world, new media devices are emerging on continuous basis. Mostly, the technologies that are associated with 'the new media' are digital; generally involve features of being networkable; interactive; manipulated; compressible; and dense. Examples of most significant new media devices of today are: internet; websites like Twitter or Facebook; computer multimedia; mobile phones; and others (Socha & Schmid, 2012). Thus, the new media devices have enabled or more particular have relied this world on digitally interactivity.

Discussion

New media devices have profound effects on various societal aspects of this world. It especially has impacted the most essential categories of society in the 21st Century, that is, economics; politics; and the exchange of idea. As we can see that new media devices has connected the whole world to one another through its fiber optic wiring networks. These devices facilitate the most important business and economic aspect 'globalization'. As the data networks between companies and investors are globally accessible, worldwide trade and finance becomes a physical reality. Further, new media is on both sides of online transactions, which not only helps product but also mould the electronic commerce process (Socha & Schmid, 2012). Thus, new media devices have not only changes our way of communication, but also impacted on our social arrangements and organizations.

New Media Devices and Social Dimensions

New media devices hold immense importance in today's social arrangements due to its ability to reach outside of stagnant information pools. In fact, the platforms provided by new media devices provides the network of networks which overwrites traditional relations in exchange of new ones, even the traditional media outlets now rely on new media sources of information and data in one or another way. According to the recent article 'Le Monde' by French newspaper, the political blogs evolution across Europe is charted by this article for assessing emerging trends and opinions in the region. This particularly signals that not only the new media devices are facilitating and enabling average people ...