Evolution.
To change, to evolve, to metamorphose into something better, something new.
The innovation of technology in the social atmosphere is merely the chrysalis that continues to produce tools of the future.
In this class, we learned about the dangers and the effects of new media. We dug deep into why we associate parts of ourselves into facets of new media, particularly when it comes to social interaction with our devices.
The wave of new media persists and flourishes with social networking sites and apps that make it easier now more than ever to connect with one another via Facetime, Zoom, Google Hangout, Snapchat Calls, you name it. The problem comes in where we put a little too much of ourselves into certain new media mediums that leave us vulnerable to the pressures online. We live in an age where we deem ourselves valuable according to likes, friend requests, snapscores, followers, streaks, views, and subscribers.
After taking this class we learned the skills to acknowledge the dangers in communication technology, but more importantly we learned the skills designed to institute social change, using the powers of new media to establish real connection, not the fake kind.
Com Tech Report
I chose to do my Com Tech Report (a 5 min presentation) on Instagram’s filters, specifically the ones regarding facial change and encouraging plastic surgery to a budding youth, making it more apparent that we aren’t satisfactory as we are naturally.
McLuhan’s Tetrad’s & Youtube
Early on in the semester, we learned about Marshall McLuhan (a major communications head in the field) and his work on the four components that make the tetrad that helps define the media at hand. I chose to illustrate Youtube in my argument as a marketing medium with its incessant advertisements that have made the medium quite frustrating to deal with.
