Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Out With The Old, In With The New: But Where Does It End?


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.
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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