How Technology in Mass Media Has Changed Society's Expectation and Culture

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No, while Alexander Graham Bell may not have invented that specific rotary phone, his technology and patent for the telephone was a game changer and truly changed society’s expectations of technology. As you can see, kids these days had no idea how to use the rotary telephone but the foundation is still the same and one that eventually led to the creation of smartphones….which I’m sure each one of those kids can use without flaw. The telephone allows people to easily connect with others and those expectations have grown exponentially the more technology grows. We now have smartphones over landlines and can take a conversation wherever we go. Instead of meeting face to face, we now have Facetime and Skype applications that allows us to see the person that we are speaking with in real time. Even something as simple as text messages and email has taken the place over phone calls and paper mail or fax. People demand to connect in any way possible because of technology. “Needless to say, the nearly nine million views of the YouTube video demonstrates how many people are affected, indeed ambivalent, about the painfully evident gap in our society; a gap caused by the evolution of mass media” (Rodriguez, 2015).

As the Industrial Revolution essentially paved the way for more efficient manufacturing and the creation of new machines which also helped revitalize infrastructure and a more dependable transportation network in Britain, so has the Information Age changed the path for people to communicate in today's time. "Technology has given people the tools to do their jobs at home. People are also forging new communities in cyberspace and developing new relationships with their neighbors in real space. Arguable, technology has the potential to increase individual freedom and strengthen community - even though so many people argue it does neither at the moment" (Ayers, n.d.) Those very same people that have the disbelief in what it has the potential to do are the very same ones that are wandering around aimlessly letting anything and everything on their phones dictate how they perceive the world. With people like that technology will never get to the potential that it has.

Reference:

Ayers, S. (n.d.). 99.07.07: The Cultural Impact of Computer Technology. Retrieved March 06, 2017, from http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1999/7/99.07.07.x.html

Rodriguez, K. (2015, November 30). Effects of Mass Media on Society: How Media Convergence Changed Our World . Retrieved March 5, 2017, from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/effects-mass-media-society-how-convergence-changed-our-rodriguez