After reading Goebbels speech on the revolution of radio, I feel quite ignorant in the fact it was once a major source of media, whereas now it's probably the last type of medium I really use. I take new media for granted but I don't think I would be able to survive without it (how pathetic!) Without mobile phones, MSN and e-mails I'd have very little contact with friends and family back home, whereas now I can speak to them everyday at anytime of the day. Although it is classed as new media though, to me it is everyday media. My mobile phone is about 2 years old, and to me I wouldn't see that as a type of new media. As Lister says, the term media is "very vague" but when will the internet, mobile phones, and digital stop being classed as new media?? It is now surely just a part of our culture and isn't 'new' anymore.
Thats my first babble over! x
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Yes your right Cara, I actually felt quite ignorant too. It's strange to think that he was so excited over something we take for granted. I suppose you can see how much of a big deal new media is though and how quick it's changing. Digital TV, emails, facebook are all part of my everyday life, and I see things like Iphones and Sky Plus as new media, when it really isn't just that at all!
ReplyDeleteBut it was a good babble haha.
ReplyDeleteAlthough you are right, just seems that these days our lives are revolved around new media.
Now it seems that we mostly talk to people via internet social networks or the phone and less time in real life.
Think we'd be sent back a few centuries if we didn't have these new media items, I think we are taking it for granted.
Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteAs well as taking it for granted, i think new media, especially the internet is always making us 'as a society' quite lazy as we can now do nearly everything online and it only takes a matter of minutes! Being able to shop from your own sofa could be seen as becoming too convenient for some people. New media makes things quick and easy for us!
What does 'new' even mean here d'you recon? Could it be that 'new' is just a term to sensationalise something that's interesting, but that we've had for so long? I also think you make a good point when you say these things have just become a general part of our culture, I honestly can't imagine my life without half of the technologies that new media encapsulates!
ReplyDeleteI think the term new media is used far too widely, as I for one do not see the internet as necessarily new, even though there are constant developments because we've grown up parallel with these develpoments. However, older generations still see the internet, mobile phones, digital etc all as revolutionary as Goebbels did the radio!
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