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Effects of Use of Modern Technologies in Communication The innovation approaches or the new opportunities offered by people in the contemporary world have made us depend on the use of these technologies for socializing consistently. Besides, community uses these technologies for other purposes including the access of different kinds of information which are related to the individuals' required field of interest. Notably, the modern technology and continuous innovations we regularly hold in the palms of our hands keep on becoming more immersive. The account is frequently promoted that the mobile phones and androids such as the tablets are indeed changing s into social screen gazers, more motivated by the world which is contained in the cloud as opposed to the universe that encompasses us. The manner in which we are accessing the huge amount of information or big data at once through the use of the online technology which also common in the modern society is something which is interesting. Besides young people becoming addicted and dependent on the current technologies is also another factor which should be of significant concern to many. There are changes in the manner in which different people regularly use the modern online technologies and socialize with others in various locations through the utilization of the various features and applications which are found in the new technologies. It is also notable that the new technologies which are available in the today's world are much quicker and rapid that any person who employs them may find them convenient and efficient in their use. The internet is one of the SURNAME 1
While digital technology has been with us from early 19th century, its accelerated introduction into mass-culture can be roughly attributed to mass-marketing of Personal Computers, the PCs, in 1980ies (Reimer). Since then in mere 30 years every sphere of human life has been subjected to some degree of digitization, be it on the level of use of simple calculator, digital watch or mobile phone, or active online “surfing”, blogging, actively partaking in multiuser networking and gaming or working in the IT-related field. This situation not only signals of the ever accelerating largely techno-centric social transformation, but also pinpoints the paradigmatic shift of global world culture towards Information Society, described by Toffler as the society of Third Wave. "In a Third Wave economy, the central resource – a single word broadly encompassing data, information, images, symbols, culture, ideology, and values – is actionable knowledge” (Dyson, Esther; Gilder, George; Keyworth, George;Toffler, Alvin ). Even within this earliest phase one can already identify evolutionary phases of development, which can be very generally described by the concept of convergence, conglomeration or even consumption-unification. This convergence is taking place on the technological, economic, social and personal levels. Technologically one witnesses a combination of miniaturization and multipurpose approaches, leading to more and more advanced mobile personal computers at the same time possessing traits of communication devices, cameras, flashlights, navigation systems, television sets and entertainment platforms (a smartphone). Economically both in terms of management, control, production, time and location, we witness convergence of human worker with software and hardware, which are able to incorporate ever-growing multitude of functions. A miniature device is able to provide one with knowledge and in part skills of an engineer, developer, designer and producer, gradually heading for substitution of human workforce or at least enabling for outsourcing of most projects on the local level (work from home) and the global level (research and development abroad, joint real-time international development). Now the central element in human experience is that of personal and social life, which, notwithstanding the importance of issues of class, labor, means of production, et cetera, is the core of everyone’s experience (social networking). At the same time personal computers incorporated and at large substituted diverse forms of entertainment (music, television, cinema, library, sports, sex…), work (coding, writing, researching, banking, calculating…) and communication (audio, video, textual, experimentally even sensory). As a consequence, while digitization didn’t replace physical production and existence, it certainly assumed an equally important role and altered the ways in which we perceive and evaluate reality (time, space, social norms).
COMMUNICATION As per the rapid development of technology, everything has changed their style and shape. However, some changes seem very positive but on the other side, it affects many valuable and intimacy-booster factors negatively. Keeping relationship alive with people through electronic means is not as much effective as the real face to face interaction is, because face to face communication will enable you to get more as compare to being engaged in wireless communication. Thus, the upcoming discussion will reveal all the shortcomings of technologies that affect communication pessimistically. It's well-known that communication plays a vital role in human being society because maintaining the relationship with family members, peers, relatives, and with all those who are close to us and touches our lives in one way or another is indispensable. Simply if we observe people in our community nearly half of them have access to some sort of technological means such as Smartphone, computers, tablets, iPods, and much more types of devices to use it for stable contacts instead of visiting and communicating closely and physically. According to Larry Rosen, virtual communication is not commendable like real world interactions. To see the enrichment and ubiquity of technological devices we are obliged to interact more with virtual friends than real-world people. As addiction, communication through electronic means takes more time than real-world communication even we know that it keep us in distance while not perceiving each other closely and intimately, despite of this, still publics; especially younger generations are using technological sources for communication and messages. And if we keep such a way of communication constant it will not let us interact personally. One study, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, found people ages 8 to 18 spent more time on media than on any other activity – at an average of 7.5 hours a day (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts, 2010). It would have been a very good thing that people had considered physically existed communication essential and important. If they were aware that how much the real world communication is useful that may not have been engaged as much in non-natural ways of communication as they currently are. In 2010, a study proved that as internet use increased, time spent with family and friends decreased while 39% of Americans spend more time socializing online than face-to-face (Brown 2013). We may think as we are social by using electronic means for keeping relationship but according to Sherry Turkle psychologist: not engaging in real world communication is just a sip of communication because we cannot get comprehensive results from the virtual exchange of information.
This research report is about “The trend of using social media among MMU Students while discussing assignments”. The main objectives of conducting this research is to find out the different types of social media platforms used by MMU students when discussing assignments. This research is based on a survey of 45 respondents. Based on the research, it shows that the majority of our respondents like to use Facebook, Whatsapp and Skype while engaging discussion with their group mates. Besides, this report is also conducted to identify different purposes of using social media such as to share documents & files, to cope with current trend and so on. We also conducted this research to find identify problems that the students face such as inconsistent network, miscommunication. Furthermore, we also tried to come up with recommendations on ways to overcome the problems. Majority of the respondents suggested that applying tighter privacy settings could be the best way to avoid third party involvement which can eliminate the problems to a certain extend.
Internet is now part of our daily lives. Most of the people check their social media accounts, weather, their e-mails from Internet in the morning even before they get a cup of coffee. We have an intimate and direct relationship with Internet in every single second of our daily life. Sometimes it is not an option to use or neglect it. As Deborah Lupton says, we live in a digital society and this digital era have influenced our daily life, commerce, government, economy, social relations etc. . It was the late 90s when the human kind has met with the cell-phone. No exaggerating, this was a mile stone in the digital history after the invention of computer. But somehow the spread of cell-phone usage was faster than the computer’s. There is a long and toilsome history behind the keyboard under of our finger tips. What made Internet so widespread is open to discussion, yet we all agree that our hearts are beating with it. Our daily life is under the influence of Internet. In this literature I want to point out the effects of Social Media usage in Internet on our daily life, politics and collection of information somewhat like journalism. Public is kin to publicity and popularity, so it is best to start with the "Public".
IJISRT (International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology), 2018
Introduction: The development of digital technology and the use of the Internet has now become part of our life in every aspect of it, from almost all active ages. Purpose and Objectives: To know the goals of technology used by students. Methodology: This is a descriptive study, realized in the auditorium B-401 at the students of the second year of the Albanian Language-Literature branch, during the period 17 May-17 June 2017, through an applied instrument found by browsing the literature. Results: The sample consists of 50 female students who use every day mobile internet to read in any Wi-Fi environment which consists of chatting (21%), participating in social networks (17%), downloading music/ video (14%), getting information on school assignments (12%) or sending/ receiving-mail (12%). The other part of students use everyday internet to get information on books/ literary topics (9%), to read/ participate in blogs and forums on books and literary topics (6%), to read digital newsletters/ magazines (5%) and to download books (4%). They use the internet once a week minimum to get information on books/ literary topics and once a month to download books, to read/ participate in blogs, forums on books and literary topics or to read digital newsletters / magazines. Recommendations: monitoring students' usage and attitudes toward technology, how to provide the best support to those students who are not using the digital technology, and to provide a clear sense of the benefits of it.
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The authors of this paper focus on communication via the Internet and define it as a modern social issue. Its aim is to provide a basic theoretical overview of the issues in question. They also bring their authors' research conducted on this topic in adolescents using the method of an electronically published questionnaire. The pa- per describes different perceptions of the characteristics of both personal and electronic communication among respondents according to the time spent on the Internet and according to whether they manipulate with their identity at the Internet. The authors also point to some of the characteristics of the Internet use and the possible pathological tendencies in adolescent respondents who are one of the most vulnerable groups in consequence of the daily use of the Internet.
Media, Culture and Public Relations, 2002
This is a revised text of the paper published long ago; the text is reshaped, some things are added and some are left out. The paper puts forward a collection of features of contemporary world and life, and seeks optimal responses to the challenges this world brings about. We speak about noise and about the procedural nature of the life in technological world. We address issues of public discourse, manipulation, surveillance and freedom. Technology gives people great operative power; we question what impact may technology exert on morality and aesthetic experience, on aggressive behaviour and cooperation. The development and use of technology have been directed by socioeconomic system; we examine the issue of the shaping of such system, and point out what leaders and poets of this world should aim at.
The development of modern information technology has changed the world around us, but also the world within us. The Internet has begun to shape our development, behavior, and social norms that can be interpreted through phenomena related to technology and human behavior in virtual reality taking place on the Internet. This means that technology has a huge impact on everyday human life. When we talk about modern technologies, we often think only of smartphones, the Internet and social media as the main factors that have significantly changed our lives, social relations, but also health. And often they pay attention only to their negative sides. With good reason, because negative side effects are not uncommon.
Although it is necessary to understand the link between information and how quickly this can be obtained, this essay will focus on the consequences of using new media and technologies as an attempt to try to develop interpersonal communication. The first section explains the importance of technology in communication; the second part approaches the concept of “Hyperreality” and how images and simulated representations overcome reality. The last sections will evaluate the physical and social gaps that technology has created in society and how people increasingly avoid physical contact as a way to communicate.
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