...Electronic and Digital Media Industry Paper Com/225 September 23, 2013 Role of Electronic and Digital Media In this paper I will discuss the role of technology in electronic and digital media. . I will give historical and contemporary roles of media in society and describe how the chemical and electronic technology of photography, recording, and transmission has advanced from the initial discovery to the present day. I will also describe how mass media uses these technological innovations, analyze how the development of digital technology has affected the content, distribution, and style of electronic media and finally discuss how it has evolved overtime and made each and every one of us dependent on them. Historical and contemporary roles of media in society Technology plays a very important role in electronic and digital media and it is forever evolving. Digital and electronic media today is readily available with the invention of the Internet. The introduction of the Internet into the society’s everyday lives have brought about a convenience that has simplify the process in which we retrieve answers to questions. Society has grown dependent on electronic products, spending less time with people and more time on the Internet. Prior to the introduction of Internet; people would have to go to the local library to research to retrieve the answer to questions. People would also participate in face-to-face...
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...Mass Media Messages and Effects Mass Media Messages and Effects When it comes to mass media, it is important to not only understand the different roles the media has in society but to also recognize with every message, there is an effect. The message that the media source is giving may have a negative or positive effect on an individual, a group of people or on society as a whole. Messages from mass media can and will have an effect also on their own organization and at times have had to certain repercussions when not following certain rules set that they must adhere to. In many situations, mass media uses what people consider an unethical approach to influence society. Due to the many laws that exist to protect society, the government has made sure to have an involvement on mass media to regulate what type of content can be released as well as protecting the rights of the people. The audience has an expectation with the messages that the media is providing to society. Society expects mass media to be honest and ethical which is how a media source can earn the respect of its audience, which will lead to a regular return by viewers. Because there is no set of rules that apply to the requirement of ethics in media, it is in the Medias best interest to consider the golden rule and the “do unto others” as this is something that people tend to expect from others. At many times, it may appear that mass media try to brain wash, persuade, or decide for society what...
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...portrays a materialistic society that has forgotten social interaction with each other. Writing in 1953, Ray Bradbury warns readers about a future that could happen. Bradbury notices dehumanization in society as technology makes people become less individual and incapable of independent thought. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury makes predictions of the future that is frighteningly accurate to what life today is like. Some of the predictions Bradbury makes had to do with the way people and machines intermingled with each other. Ray Bradbury predicted news media portraying the world through destruction and violence, society losing social skills with friends and family because of a ‘digital wall’, and children being shoved through the school system only to go to places to destroy things. News is the main outlet our society uses to communicate with each other. Whether it is national or local news, or the lunch your friend posted on Facebook, it is supposed to unite the community together and help people gather information. Today in this digital age, however, the news broadcasts more violent things in the world. In the book, news media is used by the government to find Montag. In the end, the government ended up killing an innocent man just to satisfy the people watching the news. That scene was the pinnacle of reality, showing the foul and sinister side of society, showing how much they love to see someone else suffering. Bradbury looks down upon live media coverage and describes the...
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...childhood” (3 Tips for Disconnecting Kids From Over-Stimulation, Video Games, and Digital Media). This quote is a good example of how things have changed because of digital technology coming into society. It shows how kids are stuck to their computers and TV’s because all they want to do is play video games. This relates to the theme course questions, In what ways are various digital media technologies making Americans more or less social? In what ways does the utilization of different digital technologies help to sustain communities or bring...
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...multiliteracy practices within digital popular culture. The participants included three male and two female students of a private high school in the Midwestern United States. The study is framed by the notion that literacy is a socially, culturally, and historically situated discursive construct rather than a purely individualized cognitive endeavor. This social constructivist theory of literacy emphasizes the social conditions necessary to navigate the economic, social, and political worlds of the 21st century. The purpose of the study was to explore the students‟ multiliteracy practices that they enact through their activities within digital popular culture. Data collection methods included synchronous interviews facilitated by video conferencing tools as well as observation of the participants‟ online activities and member checks conducted via email and instant messaging. The analytic strategy employed during this study was informed by Clarke‟s (2005) situational analysis method. The study‟s findings indicate that literacy practices in which the study participants have engaged through informal learning activities within digital youth culture have had a much greater impact on enabling them to cultivate the multimodal literacies necessary within a postmodern digital era than have their formal educational experiences. Keywords: Literacy; multiliteracy; digital popular culture; online, digital media; youth Introduction The experiences of students in today‟s U.S. schools as they gain...
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...Remediation of Tribe and Abramovic Artwork What is remediation and how does it play part in art? Everything has its own creation but it takes one to start it. Many people tend to think a specific performance or media was it’s own original content, which results to be true. Have one ever consider about people who appropriated someone else’s idea and change it their own way. That is a form of remediation by changing its past media to new media. However, the way I define remediation is recreating or remediate something to make it better or worse. Remediation defines as representation of one medium in another by defining characteristics of new digital media. Remediation dated back during the Renaissance period when it emphasis on the innovation...
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...Today nobody can avoid the influence exerted by digital media. Digital media is the type of media being computerized, in contrast with traditional media, such as newspapers, magazines, films and pictures. As digital media is constantly evolving, its future trend will be discussed and elaborated in the following essay. To begin with, the development of digital media poses a serious threat on traditional media, including newspapers, magazines, radio and cable TV. Christopher Zara, the reporter from International Business Times, has reported in his article that newspapers industries have shrunk by 40% in the last ten years, one of the fastest declining industries in US. On the contrary, there is an upward trend in digital media. The popularity of digital media will continually increase as it has a lot of key benefits, the major advantage lies in its convenience. It allows people to store and access information and data at anywhere at any time by using computers, smart phones or any of the various electronic gadgets flooding the market. With everybody owning at least one of these essential devices, society is relying on digital media more than ever and will be more in the future. On top of that, digital media enables people to have more freedom to select what they want to view and contribute easily in our online world. As a result, its users will increase dramatically in the next few decades. Printed media might disappear altogether in the future, which would be a loss of the entire...
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...Audrey Runner Media: Good or Evil? I can remember what it was like to watch television as a child, in the morning while eating cereal, and how it felt playing on my Nintendo 64 and believing that piece of technology to be “cutting edge”. I also remember from an early education stand point that as a class in kindergarten we were introduced to computers, and told we would need to know how to use these when we were older. In reality, I have been born and raised in an era where technology is viewed more as a machine and not as the thriving life source of our community as it is now. Today we have digital technology everywhere; in our pockets, in our homes, in our cars, for some - even in their glasses. We are never too far from our technology or the access to social media it possesses. Social media is taking over our world. Now is this a good or bad thing? My answer to that is it always has been and always will be – there is no wrong or right. Meaning that technology and media in itself has always been progressing and digital media is just another step. Today’s media is in an ever progressing state, and it will continue to grow; such is the nature of media and social relations in themselves. Technology today has given us the ability to interact with one another much differently than we have in the past, it also has reached new heights in our ability to share and distribute knowledge, but one of the biggest problems is that of the generation gap between the technologically savvy and...
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...Howard Billings Research Paper Dig 3286 Dromology and Convergence In today’s world of instant digital information and communication technology is constantly advancing. Inventors are constantly working to produce new awe-inspiring products. The goal of all these new products is to work faster than the ones that came before it. Of course, technical advancement is nothing new. Whether it was the car, the microwave, or a vacuum cleaner all were produced to increase the speed at which we do things. The difference is that digital technology is increasing not only the speed of the new products, but the speed at which these new products are being produced. Either way it is safe to say that technology and the world revolve around speed. The main goal of every industry is to do things fast and efficiently. Accessing information and communication is already faster than one could have ever imagined. The quest now is to become even faster. Push technology to its limits. In fact, the quest now is to set new limits. Is it plausible to think that we could one day communicate faster than the speed of light? Olympic track athlete Usain Bolt is a good comparison to where we are today as a technological society. His record breaking 100 meters times have reached mythical proportions. It used to be that taller heavier athletes were at a disadvantage in the 100 meters. Their height and weight would work against them, allowing the smaller runner to jump out to a lead that could not be overcome...
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...The Role of Social Media in Business Asia’s Digital Age www.wipro.com Rahul Koul Head-Digital Marketing & Thought Leadership, Wipro Technologies Table of contents 03.....................................................................................................................Abstract 04.....................................................................................................................The Internet as a Utility 04.....................................................................................................................Redefining the “Social” Life - Changing Norms and Values of Digital Natives 05.....................................................................................................................The Social Business - Connecting with Customers, Employees and Society 05.....................................................................................................................Conclusion 06.....................................................................................................................References 07.....................................................................................................................About the Author 07.....................................................................................................................About WCIR 07.....................................................................................................................About Wipro Technologies Abstract...
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...200 Yonilee Miller February 11, 2013 Today as compared to say even twenty years ago technology is a part of almost everything we do. It is there in theory to make our lives easier. We can talk to people all over the world instantaneously, we can get news information up to the second on our phones, and we can view TV on hundreds of channels in many languages. Even for us students, the days of us going to the library are obsolete. Heck even going to class at all is becoming an increasingly dying breed. It is now all done by the click of a mouse. Using a computer has changed the learning styles and we are now sharing our experiences with students all over the world. Remember of the days of asking for directions? Those days are over now too with GPS on out phones or already installed in the car we drive. The device speaks to you and it is so precise that people do not even question it when it makes a mistake, instead they question themselves. This is just a taste of technologies role in the world today but its affect goes deeper and we look at it deeper with its electronic and digital media. Pretty much since the invention of the printing press we have seen technologies role in mass media. Since its inception we have been able to produce news at a large number with the purpose of providing to all of society. It wasn’t really until the invention of radio and television though that technology really put its foot print on mass media. A whole new way of getting information...
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...Sarsha Sekhar Sarsha Sekhar Digital piracy and its impacts Digital piracy and its impacts Sarsha Sekhar Final paper Prof. Peter Shields 02/26/2016 Global media piracy is among some of the most important concerns for our media industries today. With the internet network being so widespread, digital piracy has a huge potential to grow and create massive revenue losses for our media companies here in the United States. Considering how large scale the digital piracy industry is today, it is important for us to first understand the background and history of global piracy. The problem of piracy on copyrighted material is extreamly large and continues to grow in big numbers even today. This digital piracy causes big problems to the software, videogame, music and movie industries. Digital piracy is basically the production and purchase of counterfeit material at a discounted rate. This digital piracy is constantly flowing between our internet networks from one person to another. Digital piracy goes all the way back to the 1990’s when the computers came into the picture and when the internet was made available to the public use. Traditional media piracy was basically the copying of discs or floppy’s that were sold in retail stores all over the world. In the beginning, the media companies as well as the Chinese government did not pay much attention to digital piracy, which made it easier for these digital pirates to create these illegal copies and...
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...A 'digital divide' can be described as an economic inequality between groups, this simply refers to the amount of people that have access to the latest information technologies and to those who do not. There is a clear digital divide in our modern society, the main denominator being age. Because of the recent advancements in technology, the modern adolescent has grown up with all things digital i.e. The internet, television, games consoles etc. In complete contrast, the adults of todays world lacked most of these ‘modern day necessities’ growing up. The complete and utter difference in lifestyles has ultimately led to a rewiring of the human brain. Children of the modern world are fully adjusted to modern technology and digital media from a very early age whereas the older generation need more time to adapt to the often complicated new technology. "We see marked differences in behaviour within countries – with a clear divide between younger and older groups. Younger people are more likely to use social media and aggregator brands and in all countries they show a strong preference for online." (Newman, Nic, NN, (2013), 'Digital News Report 2013', Uneven Pace of Change - Differences between and within Countries) There are of course many advantages of the new digital society in which we live. The internet can be used as a tool to connect with people all over the world, business conferences can be held via the internet in real time saving time and money for thousands of businesses...
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...Digital Media Matthew McCormick Course # Com/225 May 20, 2013 Maurice Nelson Digital Media Technology has molded the electronic and digital industry into what it is today. Society is dependent and addicted to technology and the potential to make life easier through it. Research for school projects is no longer spent with hours in the library, reading and taking notes, or combing through dictionaries and encyclopedias. Students now have the internet, where with one click they have access to a whole world of information, and they can do it anywhere in the world. Road trips are traveled by GPS not through hours of route planning in a map. Television is sought at more now than ever by kids in place of playing outside. Photography has made major improvements when discussing technology. In 1826, Joseph Niepce, a French inventor, discovered the first way to capture images. Using a pewter plate and some light sensitive materials, he was able to capture the first picture. It took 8 hours of sun light exposure to capture the first picture, the courtyard of his home (Karwatka, 2007). Today, you can take a high quality digital picture instantly, virtually anywhere, with almost any electronic device. Recording sound has also had to evolve with technology. Thomas Edison invented the first recording device in 1877. He named his device the phonograph, meaning sound writer (Lerner, 2008). He used a cylinder wrapped in tinfoil that rotated as someone shouted into a funnel...
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...VISION 4.1 THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT As stated above in 2.1, the report identifies key forms of technology that revolutionised the particular era, it was the invention of said technology that has impacted the technology of today. There was at least one form of technology from every era that has made it’s way into society today and remains a large influence to the entertainment industry. The roles of culture and technology in the future of the entertainment industry, all comes down to the digital world. The future is digital. Every form of media and entertainment in some way or another, is in digital formation from music, film and tv and also gaming. With the entertainment industry becoming digital, it allows for easier distribution and access, as well as social interactivity amongst audiences. The dominant forms will be as stated...
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