The flow of information has change dramatically in the last forty
years from the time my parents were kids to now. When my parents were kids they
did not have a phone less a mobile phone. Computers were rare and the internet
was not even known about. It had for us to imaging a world now were we are not
able to access information with a touch of a screen. The gathering of resource
book then was much slower as a person had to go to a library and manually look
though a book for the information that was required were as in today’s world
such as I am doing with this blog, looking up information on an online database.
The idea of the word ‘flow’ has had a dramatic influence on how we view the
world now even if people do not realize it. Most people don’t pay attention to
how the flow of information has changed how people view the world. For example
the unrest in countries such as Egypt was affecting Egyptians communities
around the world because of how quickly information can travel. The flow of information
goes hand in hand with the media and globalization as the world gets smaller
with the development of technologies such as the internet, and Skype allows
people in the media such as reporters to communicate events in real time that
happen in one area of the world can be communicated to the other side of the
world instantly, whereas a few decades ago it would take much longer for news
to travel. According to Thompson (Rantanen:2005, p9) the development of new
media has not just established new ways of transmitting information but created
new ways of communicating with each other’s. This can be seen today with Facebook,
blogs and YouTube as new ways of people being able to communicate. Communication
is not just one way anymore these new form of communication allow ordinary
people just like me to do what I’m doing now and communicating to a much larger
almost limitless audience. It is this new of communicating to the mass that has
change the flow of information from just the media giants to potentially
anyone.
Rantanen, T. (2005) The Media and Golbasization, Sage,
London
Hi Steven,
ReplyDeleteIt’s fantastic to reflect back on this first official post compared with your later work and see the vast improvements you’ve made to improve your blogs throughout this trimester! This first post displays good content knowledge of the reading, and demonstrates your experiences with information flows well enough but a number of improvements could be made as well. As somebody already listed in a later post, separating your text into paragraphs is extremely important, even on an online platform like blogging as it enhances readability. In addition to this, I feel you could make much greater use of blogging as a connected medium by providing external links, or even embedded images and video to support your arguments.