Culture on New Technology

What kind of culture influences through technology can you see from today’s world?

All of the above images show how our life going on these days.Nowadays, almost everyone has a computer. And hearing that kid as young as 5-6 years old playing with the computer is not something new. You can really see how the computer have really changed our society. The most obvious group influenced by the computer should be kids and teenagers. In Asian countries, kids are spending more time on their computer rather than playing outside or doing something healthy such as exercising. They are attracted to playing games such as online games and can spend up to 4-6 hours non stop just playing.

Is there a possibility to reshape the (new) culture today via new technology, How?

There are chances of ways to reshape the culture we see today with new technologies that can be created in the future. How exactly? Well, big software companies may come up with ways that can limit the time for kids to spend on their computers, or can just limit of how long they can play games.

Media Imperialism

Media imperialism means that someone manipulating the media to influence people to do something that he wanted them to do. This is a terrifying power if they misused the power it will only cause chaotic situation. Media imperialism also apply in the government conspiracy. The politician used this kind of dirty trick to pull an action. For example in the documentary video “The Power of Nightmares (Part 3 - Shadow in the Cave)" George Bush blindly takes action on the people who that he assumed to be terrorist to be caught. It’s all about one thinking then he apply the media imperialism to make his assumption become true but it’s not actually. The news also had been manipulated by the government for example the tragedies of September 11 the media told the world that terrorist did the plane crash but after that there was many doubt about the explosion some says it was government conspiracy.This is how the media imperialism works and it's pretty much the same as mind control it’s has the power to control the world by using media.

McLuhan's 'Tetrad of Media'

McLuhan was the one who created the tetrad of media. As we can see, there are 4 human action that make up the tetrad made by McLuhan, which is enhances, reverses, retrieves, and obsolesces. There are many type of medium but I'll choose mobile phone as my subject. Mobile phone have been widely use these days, and it's convenient to bring them anywhere as it is small and mobile. This will enhances the speed of people get connect to each other by calling or just sending a short message(SMS). So, Primitive or old ways of communicating like using carrier pigeon, heliographs, smoke signals or telegraph will no longer be used. In the future, the probability of people will not see each other face to face will be higher due to the advance in the technology world.

Obscenity, Pornography and Indecency

Obscenity, indecency and pornography is a different kind of topic and I will explain about the differences between each of it. First of all, obscenity means is to describe anything that has to do with inappropriate words, media forms, and pictures which portray any offensive particularly in sexual issues which still can be accepted in moral standard. However, indecency is very much different to the obscenity. It menas something or someone looked unsuitable or no manners. There are lot of example of indecency,such as screaming and kicking anything in public without any reason, or wearing something that expose most of his/her body on the streets.Many teenager nowadays love to do those indecency stuff because they think it is kind of cool to do it. Last but not least, pornography is an explicit representation of sexual things in some of media form, for example, videos,pictures and magazines. Pornography normally a social taboo for the society but last few years has saw an emergence in its popularity, thanks to the contribution from the Internet.