Evaluate the impact of growth and increasing diversity of the new media in society ‘New media’ is a term, which is constantly evolving, and on a daily basis, encompassing more as well as newer and innovative elements in it. In simple terms, it is the opposite of ‘traditional media’, which includes print, television and film, and radio. According to New Media Basics, new media is effectively interactive, and it includes a host of communication mechanisms that revolve around the Internet, and include features such as e-mail, social networks, websites, blogs, online videos and pictures etc. And new media also includes new media devices and technologies such as laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and a host of other devices, which also includes smartphones. The new media has reformed society as the delivery of media content has caused the growth and increased diversity in society.
Benefits of Innovation and Change To fully understand the benefits of innovation and change, we must first understand what innovation and change actually are. The Oxford Dictionary then defines change as “an act or process through which something becomes different. O’Sullivan describes innovation as something “helping organizations grow…Innovation is the process of making changes to something established by introducing something new” (http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/23137_Chapter_1.pdf). There has always been the need for organisations to change, update and improve but now more than ever given the world’s current economic situation and the need to more than satisfy market needs. First an organisation must recognise their need to change a current process, their equipment, structure or any other possible thing to change.
Though the Internet is the main subject of his argument, Carr provides insight on other developments as well. By touching on the inventions of such inventions as the map and the clock, he explains that both “changed the way we saw ourselves and the way we thought” (55) and provides example of his idea that the modernization of technology changes our thought process. He illustrates through historical references, the progression of how we read and write. Such examples include: writing on stones and wood, upgraded to papyrus, to tablets, to paper, to typewriters, to computers. Growing up in a time that was predominately print rather than computer, Carr is quick to favor print reading.
It speeds up the retrieval and dissemination of information, partially eliminating such chores as going outdoors to the mailbox or the adult bookstore, or having to pick up the phone to get hold of your stockbroker or some buddies to shoot the breeze with. That one thing the Internet does, and only that.” * - Tom Wolfe, from Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill in Hooking Up (published in 2000) Established only a few decades ago, the Internet itself is a neutral device originally designed for easing researches and studies among academic and military structures. The Internet is a system of enormous technical and social complexity.
Steampunk: An Aesthetic Revolution There are various possibilities in defining the word steampunk. Other than its obvious mixture of the Victorian Era with the technological advances of today’s society, Steampunk has an endless amount of ways to be described. By construing the “reality” of certain subjects and by offering the best of both worlds, Steampunk illustrates an alternative world different to the “reality” of history. Steampunk is a remix of the future mixed with a element of past. Using the knowledge and scientific dreams of the Edwardian and Victorian eras, modern day technology goes under the microscope to be changed and “Steampunkified”.
Think of continuity as well as change – and think not only of technology but also of its impact on society. Provide specific examples. b. Choose one of the innovations we have discussed so far – writing, printing, newspapers – and answer the following question about it: How did it affect the relationship between elites and the people? Did it change the very definition of elites/people?
They are exploring new products in complex markets which might make changes difficult. Opportunities: 1. Offering new technologies in developing countries. 2. This initiative includes new ways of thinking.
The government sees a need to evolve and change the way the laws are due to evolution. If the laws are not modified or created then people could get away with something that could cause someone else harm. Today the government needs to step it up a notch and get new laws put into place to help bring peace and safety back to the United
The new product may be able to use current technologies or a new technology may be presented and the new product is the outcome. The new product may offer a radically new way of doing something it may simply be an existing theme. For example, David Packard created an information processing and scientific instrumentation empire. Hewlett Packard is based on the advanced knowledge obtained from scientific developments.
Technology: Is it Corrupting The Balance of Life? Everything has an opportunity cost, even technology. As evolution evolved so did technology, the 20th century was the beginning of the new technological era; Computers, video games, mobile phones, appliances seem to manifest throughout society. Technology follows a sovereign development, a progression that we can slow down or accelerate depending on our decisions and efforts. This brings us to the big question: To what extent can electronics be advanced without becoming too inhumane?