COMMUNICATION INFORMATION AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
How are new media technologies changing the nature of communication and what is the impact on social and personal skills (such as language, literacy and numeracy)?
What is the impact of new technologies on domestic, leisure and professional relationships especially across interest or ethnic groups?
How can human factors be introduced into the design process for new technologies, and what are the limiting factors?
How do we interpret and communicate about our world through language and non-verbal communication?
How are literacy, knowledge and new media technologies related to exclusion and inclusion in society?
- Exclusion – processes by which groups and individuals are unable to participate in the networks and opportunities available to society as a whole. Social exclusion may be caused by poverty
- Inclusion – processes where individuals or groups are able to participate in the networks and opportunities made available by society. Reducing poverty may enhance social inclusion
- Language – ways of communicating through words, with common vocabulary, syntax and grammar
- Leisure – time spent for the pursuit of wellbeing, satisfaction and happiness rather than for financial gain through work
- Literacy – ability to read the written word
- Media – means of communication to audiences, mass media include television, radio and newspapers
- Non-verbal communication – use of physical gestures or signs in place of spoken words as a way to convey messages
- Numeracy – ability to use and understand numbers and mathematical techniques
Synopsis
The article highlights the issues society is gradually starting to face as the social utilities we are aware of are being replaced with new media technology and interaction which is slowly becoming the new method of communication. Aswell as the statistics to households and their each individual use of technologies which are changing communication in the world as we know it, the risk of the complete distinction of physical and verbal interaction with one another is slowly commensing. Within our society younger users and generations who are growing up in a world full of technologies day are becoming less aware or how we should comminicate. A childs bedroom now generally consists of a television and/or a laptop/computer syste, which allows younger users to retreat to the bedroom domains, further allowing them to check their social networks online via the internet communicating with friends without stepping outside their front door. This, ultimately suggests the slow and painful demise of societies knowledge of interaction and gradually and surely we will soon be trapped in a world full of technology with little or even no verbal communication used to ensure we know what we are doing each day and who we are going to meet.
Bullet Points
> The changes in the ways in which we communicate with one another, focusing on the transition from verbal to internet based conversations and interactions
> Children growing up in a society that has shunned the traditional values of interaction and family values as we know them are being destroyed by technologies dominance
> Statistical values for households owning nmt’s and how they are used
> Socities development with these technologies, and even though the changes are drastic and immediate a vast majority or us are still unaware of the dramatic change in our social utilities they new media technologies are constructing.
Quotes
“Exclusion – processes by which groups and individuals are unable to participate in the networks and opportunities available to society as a whole. Social exclusion may be caused by poverty”
“Language – ways of communicating through words, with common vocabulary, syntax and grammar”
“Media – means of communication to audiences, mass media include television, radio and newspapers”
