Sunday 3 April 2011

Week 5

In contemporary, people live is media era. Internet provides a new platform for whole society either individuals or global industries. Media seems can be seen everywhere in people daily life. Since facebook established, media has more thuoroughly converged people's life. According to Deuz(2011), as media become pervasive and ubiquitiou, forming the building blocks for people constant remix of the catagories of everyday life. People use media for different sakes, such as entertainment, communication, business on diverse websites. People can edit their personal blog or facebook profile showing their personalities, their characteristics, even or their professional aspects. Those website space belong to people themselves for their own sytlish to construct. Therefore, media completely has impacted on people lifesytle. Besides of providing space for people, media also build time relationships. It expmlifies an increasing speed of travel and telecommunications as a benchmark for a global change in people’s awareness of reality itself.

However, mobile phone is another media which has impacted people’s life as well. Bell (2006) claims cell phone is obvisouly pieces of technology. People use mobile phone not only for communication, but also technical devices. With 3G mobile phone spreading the world, people can use mobile phone as a little portable laptop surferring internet, chatting on line. Mobile phone seems not just objects and technology, but also a system of ideas of family, of intimacy, emergency and work. It has strong capacities more than communication.

Reference list:
Deuze, M. 2011  Media, Culture & Society   
SAGE: http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/33/1/137 (Accessed 03 Apr 2011)

Bell, G. 2006 Knowledge, Technology, & Policy  The Age of the Thumb: A Cultural Reading of Mobile Technologies from Asia  


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