Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Week 1 - Response to Content

What are the main issues in New Communications Technology?
There are many issues surrounding new communication technology, and the main one for most people is privacy. Whether this be privacy for themselves and their information or privacy for their children. Pre - teens, teens and young adults are all using social networking sights such as Facebook and MySpace. This can become very worrying for their parents, as these days everyone is well aware about what people can do on these sights and how people can be manipulated. It is not very often people pose as someone else and pose a risk to young people, however it does happen. Lee Simon in his book 'Social Media Dangers' aims at warning both parents and children of these dangers. He says that it is not very common for children to be asked to meet someone who has contacted them however he says, 'one of every five kids are solicited with a sexual solicitation'.(Simon, 2011, p.8). This shows us it is a real danger and a major issue in our everyday lives.


How do we distinguish between old and new communication technologies?
In the present day old technology is generally classified as analogue where as new technology is classified at digital. The constant development of technology and varying and increasing societal needs will continually force people to innovate and create new and existing technology to meet more needs and also, to create needs we never knew we had.

Under what circumstances will new communication technologies become old communication technologies?
New communication technologies will become old when another piece of technology is introduced that can achieve the same tasks but better, faster or more efficient. People will slowly change over to this new piece of technology and therefore there will be no use for the 'old' technology and no one will be using it. This is when new technology becomes old technology.
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