...New Media COM400 10/19/2015 Stephanie Morrow New Media New media is the introduction of technology that affects the sociology and social issues of people. It encompasses both ideology and anthropology of civilizations and how people are developing. Creating new ideas in the world, giving life to new thoughts and imaginations is what innovation and technology is about. With the help of many recent technologies marvels such as the computer, the internet, ect. And equipped with various advanced methods the world has entered into a modern era of communication. Some further examples of these technologies include photo sharing, video sharing, data sharing, blogs, social networks, podcasts and internet calling to name a few. These technological advancements directly impact our civilizations, changing our cultural trends and reshaping our social perceptions. The media influences the society by presenting persuasive messages to the people, changing people’s thoughts about their appearance, values and behaviors. There is a measurable digital divide between the haves and the have nots in society on both a domestic and global level. The digital divide is a social issue referring to differing amounts of information available to populations. It became a popular term in the 1990’s among scholars, policy makers and advocacy groups. The digital divide includes more than just media concerns. This is because technology is everywhere around us. These areas include, literacy, economic groups...
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...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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...What Does It Mean to Be Human in an Age of Social Media and “Intelligent” Machines? Technology has been created and evolving since the beginning of history, all the way from the primitive discovery of fire to the advanced concepts of Global Positioning Systems, technology has come a long way and definitely affects every individual of society. Even during the short span of my lifetime, the change of technology has affected my life and how I perceive the world. Growing up in the 90’s definitely showed me that the advancements of technology changed how people lived their lives. During my childhood I would play outside, and read books to pass the time, but now a days I spend more time inside on a computer, or on my phone to pass the time. Technology is quickly changing and everyday people are being pulled further into the technological void. Even though technology is improving with the internet, science, and social media. Society is given an ever-changing new perspective and viewpoint on the world. Over the past couple of decades, society has reached a point where people are starting to prefer socializing over the internet, or just living their lives in the most convenient way possible. Meaningful social interactions have started to fade with the rise of the technological wave. For example, face to face conversations have become screen to face text messages and emoji’s. In “Technology: A Reader for Writers” many authors pool together their ideas to illustrate the power of technology...
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...Media influence is everywhere: governing the opinions of those that take in its information. As technology becomes more easily obtainable, censorship within media content is frequently used to direct viewers into a certain way of thinking. Literary critics like Peter Sicero, Thomas F. Bertonneau, and Calum Kerr use their literary analyses to examine similar conflicts in Fahrenheit 451. These journals demonstrate the way the government uses television to force viewers to believe what is being fed to them through television programming. Ray Bradbury uses allusions, characterization, foreshadowing and symbolism to demonstrate how the government pressures citizens into like-minded ways of thinking to continually gain power. Bradbury uses allusions,...
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...2014 In today’s economy the technological advancements and market shifts have taken a toll on big businesses all over. Blockbuster, one of the well known movie stores suffered because it couldn’t keep up with the fast moving market shift in using new technology to rent movies on demand and now they are closed. The purpose of this report is to inform readers about market failures that happen when new technological advancements take over. Next this report discusses how adjusting to market shifts affect businesses. Finally this report discusses a solution that could help solve the problem for stores that can’t generate enough customers to come in because of technology. In the past couple years we have seen the “industry entertainment and media giants lose revenue as young upstart companies (or larger ones with visionary leaders) leverage the capabilities of the Web to outperform them. And now we're watching them go bankrupt as they fail to reinvent their business models to counterbalance the distribution of information online (Welchman, 2010).” Blockbuster is a well known business who because of the new technology advancements like ordering movies from your television and having Netflix went bankrupt. In today’s economy technology is moving at a fast rate and for a lot of businesses there having problems keeping up....
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...The Effects of Technology on Learning, Memory, and Associations. How does the advancement of technology influence developing children’s learning associations and information processing and what correlation does that have with future educational curriculums? Hypothesis Today’s utilization of technological resources for education has caused changes in students’ brain functions and processes that effect long-term learning methods. Abstract Before the Internet, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and textbooks were the main resources used for educational development and study. Today with the exponential growth in both the consumer and education technology sector, students and researchers alike are relying on the worldwide web and more specifically search engines for sources of information. With the unlimited amount of information the Internet and search engines provide and their ease of access, education is evolving to unprecedented levels. The rise of technological resources for both students and institutions has provided online distance learning and new-age education movements across the globe. The unlimited educational resources available on the Internet and other media are changing the way students learn. Memory processing and learning associations in students are beginning to change for the present and future generations. Even though technology affects every age group’s brain processing and functioning, the learning functions in grade-school students are easier...
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...Chapter 2: The Political, Legal, and Technological Environment Learning Objectives and Chapter Summary |1. |INTRODUCE the basic political systems that characterize regions and countries around the world and offer brief examples of | | |each and their implications for international management. | | | | | |The global political environment can be understood via an appreciation of ideologies and political systems. Ideologies, | | |including individualism and collectivism, reflect underlying tendencies in society. Political systems, including democracy| | |and totalitarianism, incorporate the ideologies into political structures. There are fewer and fewer purely collectivist or| | |socialist societies, although totalitarianism still exists in several countries and regions. Many countries are | | |experiencing transitions from more socialist to democratic systems, reflecting related trends discussed in Chapter 1 toward| | |more market-oriented economic systems. | |2. |PRESENT an overview of the legal and regulatory environment in which MNCs operate worldwide, and highlight differences in | | |approach to different legal and regulatory...
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...The Pervasiveness of Technology within Our World Over a long time, there have been varied opinions from different groups of individuals concerning the value of technology in our lives. Currently, the technological advancement has made the world a global village where you can access all sorts of information and services, reach people and places with ease and interact on various platforms such as business. As a result of these, technology has had a significant control on the way we carry out our daily activities and how we relate with each other. However, some school of thought argues that the technology has had very little impact on our lives. They see technological development as separate from our social culture and its concerns. Also, it poses a ruling force on the people who use it or interact with it. Therefore, the argument says that we have little influence on the development of technology rather we try to fit in the prevailing conditions of technology. This debate has resulted to a question whether we have full control over technology, or it is the other way round where it is the technology determines what we do. For us to understand this concept, the theory of technological determinism has played an important role. According to Oliver (2011), this theory explains that the technology is the force that drives change and progression in our society. It determines how we interact in the society. Even though some people agree with the statement, others have a different point...
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...Microsoft Microsoft started from humble beginnings in 1975, and soon rose to become one of the biggest companies in modern history. Today, Microsoft is having record revenues, making a total of $18.06 billion dollars last quarter (Forbes). Microsoft affects almost everyone’s life in the US daily, whether it is kids on their Xbox, to desk workers using Windows Office each day to accomplish their work, people use Windows every day. From Microsoft’s early beginnings to its multibillion-dollar company today, Windows has had success from the start, and will continue to for the coming decades. Two men in 1975; Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft. (History of Windows) They started out with MS-DOS, their first operating system. The companies’ first headquarters was in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but after signing some pivotal contracts with IBM, they moved to their headquarters in Bellevue, Washington in 1979.(History of Windows) Working side by side with IBM to develop OS/2, Microsoft released their new product, Microsoft Windows. It was a graphical extension of MS-DOS. On March 13th, 1986, Microsoft went public, which would result in 4 billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires being created from the ensuing rise in stock. (Forbes) Along with its partnership with IBM came allegations that they were trying to monopolize the computer industry. The Federal Trade Commission set its sights on Microsoft and began almost a decade of legal battles between Microsoft and the...
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................ 8 Efficiency and Equity ............................................................................................. 10 Conclusion ............................................................................................................... 12 References ............................................................................................................... 13 1 Executive Summary The objective of this paper is to offer an in-depth analysis the economic situation of the newspaper publishing industry in Australia within the microeconomic scope. The paper analyses transformations of the industry brought by digitisation and the fast paced technology development. It discusses how digitisation and technology affects the demand and supply of printed newspapers. It also looks at the elasticity and efficiency and equity of newspaper in the current market. This paper is divided into four section. Following an introduction (Section 1.0), then Section 2 .0 introduces the economic concept which will be used through the paper. Section 3.0 analyses the economic state of the newspaper publishing industry using...
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...of Common Sense Media and an evaluation given to a numerous amount of teachers gathering information about what technology has done for students’ ability to learn. This research draws upon teachers of multiple states, ages, and grades. This case example shows how technology has negatively affected the cognitive function of students’ minds while involved at school.Has technology ruined our ability to communicate on a personal level? Sociology 111 Term Paper Taylor Sandusky December 9, 2015 INTRODUCTION Technology plays a large role in our communication skills. Almost everyone has observed someone tapping away at their cell phone on their way into the store, someone poking at computer keys in the corner of a coffee shop, or even the one student in class not paying any attention to the lesson and instead focusing on the Candy Crush game application running on his iPad. Today’s society is...
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...newspapers, letters, or television. Currently, the new word of mouth is social media on how organizations such as hospitals, spread the word. This paper will examine the current health care marketing techniques used for social media. Included in this will be how the marketing is used, the author's opinion on the marketing techniques for social media, how social media affects the consumers, and if social media within healthcare as a positive or negative effect. Health Care Marketing Techniques and Trends Marketing is using social media as an outlet for word of mouth. By using social media conversations are not face to face, they are now one too many. Which is beneficial to many organizations. People are trying to take their health serious now and receiving information from online platforms and referrals by others. Social media is used to promote referrals and improve health care to current and future consumers. Promoting health care through social media can be done through many different pages and websites for potential patients and present ones. Consumers are modernized these days and have become tech savvy and want to know more about their health and future health needs. Customers are searching the web for information on health care before making appointments to see what the good, the bad, and the ugly is. Opinion on Current Techniques and Consumer Trends Social media as a marketing strategy is very effective in my opinion. It is useful in seeking...
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...COMPANY PROFILE | | News Corporation Limited (NWS) is an international media company engaged in the publication of newspapers, magazines and books; production and distribution of movies and TV series; TV broadcasting; cable and satellite subscriber TV; and owns and develops internet properties. NWS operates primarily in the US, the UK, Australia and Asia. It is the world's second-largest media group as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009. The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (DIRECTV) is one of the leading providers of digital television entertainment services in the US and in Latin America. The company is engaged in acquiring, promoting, selling, and distribution of digital entertainment programs. They serve both commercial and residential customers through satellite. DIRECTV is also engaged in producing its own entertainment programs such as Hometown Heroes, Supreme Court of Comedy, Passions, Championship Gaming Series and others. Company Vision, Mission Statement News Corp. : "Creating and distributing top-quality news, sports and entertainment around the world." DirecTV: “To provide customers with the best video experience in the United States and Latin America both inside and outside of the home by offering subscribers...
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...Government and increase in employment opportunity. Indirect benefits are reduction in transaction cost, improves access to social networks, provides more information about various services like educational , health care etc, reduction in business lead and response time, increases productivity of business through voice and data services (for example e-business: telecommunications networks will support the e-business operations within the enterprise, and with their customers, suppliers, and other business partners) also support the internal business operations, management, and strategic decisions of companies. Macro Environment Factors of Telecom Sector: Macro environment analysis is used to assess the external factors that affect a company or a sector. Analysis of macro environmental factors have...
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...Critical Thinking Questions: Module 7 Chapter 3 Q:Select a recent mass media technology, for example, the iPad, and explain what you think its future will hold as it relates to the stages of technological innovation. A: The future seems very bright for devices such as the iPad and iPhones, and other Smartphone based devices. As the years continue to change so will the needs of the consumers of these technological devices, it is only a matter of time before we are able to use a holographic form of an iPad or iPhone etc. These devices meet the needs of so many people that the growing rate of what is desired on the newest device is hard to keep up with. The need to produce such devices at a fast rate before their competitors may stir up a few technological glitches as the past has deteremined from older devices. My fear is that these technology companies are going to start to cut corners more often than they should just to get the product out to the consumer. In a way the future of an iPad and iPhone will always be a positive once since it is a fairly popular brand all around the world. Perhaps the next best thing that they are able to figure out will to project movies from the phone or work on a holographic keyboard that works on a flat surface. Either of these innovations would inhance the sales of this product, but only if the eagerness to get this product out before their competitors does not affect the actual product. As mentioned before history has shown that the rush...
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