Currently, science and technology permeate every aspect in our life. A great variety of electronic productions emerge in an endless stream, which brings us infinite convenience and freshness. It is calculated that "tablet sales are tipped to surpass traditional laptop and desktop sales in 2016, and mobile sales will go well beyond both" (Nichols 33). Meanwhile, amount of traditional industries are confronted with a tremendous challenge under the impact of new technology. For instance, the print media is caught in an awkward condition and faced with a strong opponent, the electronic media. In accordance with a study, "since the year 2003, the amount of printed material in use for recreational purposes has gone down whilst the use of TV and other …show more content…
On the other hand, it is no doubt that all the living things have its existent value. As traditional media, the print media must own some irreplaceable superiority to survive in the long time. First, It is relatively safe that private information can 't be exposed and spreaded to everywhere. Moreover, pirates can be controlled to some extent. Second, it doesn 't have too many limitations. People can use it wherever you are, and newspapers as well as books are cheap to buy, so those poor people can also read books and attend school. For example, India has a big population, and it still is a developing country, so it is impossible to popularize the electronic media, and they also think "on-line articles are not as in-depth as the print versions" (Patil 9), so the print media is given more attention. It is reported that "the total circulation of newspapers increased from 156, 719, 209 copies in 2004-05 to 180, 738, 677 copies in 2005-06" (Patil 13), and that is just ten years ago, now its trend still keeps increasing. Third, the print media has an ancient history, some people would like to chase classical beauty and make themselves literary, hence they always collect newspapers, magazines, and books. Some people like the odor of paper, thus they like reading newspapers and books in paper. According to a survey conducted in Israel in 2015, the people who like the smell of books and the feel of print book take up 23%, and habit takes up 20% (Davidovitch, Yavich, & Drucknan 133 ). Hence, it is obvious that the print media will be
Being published in 2007, this work greatly accentuated the problem of a society where the media dictated exactly what and how information would be transmitted to society. However, in the modern technological era, the media’s content is less important to society due to our ability to select, and as a result the argument presented by the author, along with most of his concerns, is
The author utilize people and data to support the drop-off in reading among teens because of technology. Ludden bring in two teenagers to say why they don’t read. The author provides a parent to show the impact of technology on a 10 year-old. In the article it talks about social media “10 year old...less reading..more attached to digital media platform.” (Ludden.1) and “many distraction on the internet.”
The constant stimulation of fast cars, music, and TV also caused the population to lose interest in reading, they don’t have the attention span to do it. The ideas of a
Is Bradbury's Fantasy Becoming Our Reality Technological growth is one of the biggest moving innovations in our everyday lives. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury speaking about the future society where books are outlawed and no one thinks for themselves. Bradbury speaks about the struggle that certain characters have trying to involve books back into society. In our everyday lives, we are constantly flooded with social media and always have a need to pick up our phones. Children are beginning to learn keyboarding at a much younger age, as opposed to working on their penmanship.
In a culture that increased in greed and a world of instant gratification media has and will continue to become skewed and not beneficial for the whole of
The first newspaper was published in a high trafficking area in Rome in early 59 BC. The newspaper eventually turned into the earlier version of the book in 1455. The creation of the newspaper eventually made school systems better in modern day, The newspaper eventually turned into the earlier version of the book which is what we use to educate our schools and communities today. Overall, newspapers were actually a great contribution to modern day U.S. by creating better school systems because then eventually evolved into the early version of the
Loud cars, music, and massive advertisements like the gum commercials create an overstimulated society without room for distractions like books, self-reflection, or appreciation of nature and the suppression of thoughts. Bradbury gives the reader a brief history about why society started hating books, first condensing them into shorter bite sized pieces, then just writing titles, and forgetting about them all together in the end. He says he world is happier like this. The book also talks about the idea that different groups were offended by literature.
Lynn Hunt focuses heavily on the ramifications of print media during
As the digital age comes upon us, more and more Americans become dissatisfied with the state of literacy in this generation. Because the Internet paves the way for shorter and shorter interactions, namely articles versus novels and six-second viral videos versus films, many people that grew up in the age of the Internet have a preference for this condensed form of entertainment. Dana Gioia of The New York Times asserts in his essay “Why Literature Matters” that the decline of reading in America is destined to have a negative impact on society as a whole. Gioia opens his essay with a bittersweet account of which trend is occurring in the twenty-first century America arts scene. He notes that as college attendance rates blossom, the interest
In other words the new technology is controlling us. The new generations have the tendency to rely more on the new technology which make them more reliable to changes compared to the old ones. Technological convergence is in fact affecting our everyday lives or even our work lives. It is valuable for the marketing industry as all media is grouped in a single device. These types of new devices have become a new tool for trend search.
While MEG’s broadcasting decreased 17% and digital media increased 8%, its newspaper was down 43%. According to Figure 1, only newspaper division has kept declining since 2007. By contrast, digital revenues on local websites have increased for many years, from MEG Annual Reports, various years. Even broadcasting business performed better than newspaper, which met a dramatically increase in 2010. Given the sustain development of electronic media, it’s inadvisable for MEG to sell its digital media or broadcasting division.
Technology has always been progressing thus it is rampant in our society today. We use technology; depend on technology in our daily life and our needs and demands for technology keep on rising (Ramey, 2012). Wherever you look, you will see people holding different kinds of technology like cell phone, laptop, tablets and etc. It appears to most of us that technology is a necessity to the point where we can no longer live without it. According to Gavin (2013), technology moves at a rapid pace, and can be hard to keep up with at times.
Printed media would include printed books, newspapers and magazines, and other traditional or analogue media, such as pictures, film or audio tape. The popularity of digital media, together with the internet and personal computing, has caused a major change for publishing, journalism, entertainment, education, commerce and politics. The universality of digital media and its effects
Everyone knows that reading is important, but have you ever asked yourself why is that so? Reading is one of the most beneficial and practical activities that a human being can do. Unfortunately it is a disappointment that people these days read less. As we know, books were the main source of entertainment centuries ago, but with the widespread of technological advances such as the cinema, television, internet, among others, many people left their books on the bookshelf. The purpose of this speech is to present the benefits and the importance of reading.
Higher Education: Media literacy may also be incorporated into various programs offered by colleges and universities. This would encourage critical thinking and analytical abilities among students. They could then analyse, for instance, how pertinent issues that concern them or their community are addressed in the local media such as newspapers and news channels. This would in turn help them to become aware citizens and possibly, active particiapnts in the dialectic relationship between communication and democracy. D. Libraries: Libraries are generally have computers and offer people access to the internet.