So, when I began writing this blog, my first
reaction was "what’s the point?” With the subject of our first lecture for
JOUR1111 being the emergence of new media in the place of older media, I began
to question the relevance of my inconsequential, little blog in the grander
scheme of things.
Let's say, hypothetically, someone's reading this
blog.
Yes, I'm talking to you.
You're sitting at your desk, reading a section of the twisted maze that is my head by the comfortable light of your computer screen, perfectly content to swim around lazily in the pool that has become the Internet.
You're sitting at your desk, reading a section of the twisted maze that is my head by the comfortable light of your computer screen, perfectly content to swim around lazily in the pool that has become the Internet.
Now let's change the scenario slightly. Suddenly,
this isn't a blog, but a newspaper.
Now who's reading it?
Chances are, my hypothetical reader, no one is.
As technology advances, so do we. With the more we
know and the more opportunities we are presented with we develop choice and preference. With news now readily available at our finger tips on the Internet, this outlet has become a much more convenient source of information for society, making old
media such as newspapers and radio, practically obsolete.
So what's next? If media outlets such a newspapers
and radios are now becoming irrelevant in the face of new media such as
internet and television, how long until they're replaced too? Shoved down to
the bottom of the bin with the rest of these obsolete mediums, their pages
dissolving and crumbling to past like the stories they hold. Who will be
reading my blog when it has become lost beneath the tatters and shreds of other
discarded stories?
It's a frightening future for a world so eager to see it.
Photo Source: http://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/almost-non-existing-german-security.html
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