A few months ago in one blog I read an opinion that computers have destroid a family custom to watch TV in the evening - the main activity that could daily bring all members of a family together before and gave them a common content to discuss. Now everyone has its own computer and even if sitting in one room with others can enjoy one's own content independently.
Today I read a more ambitious statement about a danger of separation power of new media in an article by Sean Gonsalves about media biases:
- With the Internet and the ability of news consumers to pick and choose what news they want to engage, I wonder how America will ever have a meaningful conversation about any national issue when we're all living in our own individual media bubbles, clinging to news that affirms our individual world view while rejecting any information that doesn't fit neatly into our political philosophy as worthlessly "biased."
The number of different popular internet servises is really impressive. And I think that in reality this diversity provide consumers a choice they are confused by. In a blog Regular Geek I found a list of the most popular social media services.
Social networks:
Social media:
Other related sites:
As Marshal McLuhan warned in his book "Understanding Media" (or better to say, as I understood what he had been trying to say when I was reading the book in a Russian translation), thanks to the new media the world is tending to be tighter, is going to "implode", loose its specialisation, is going back to a village, tribal community where information is delivered so fast that it's impossible to fence yourself from it. Who knows maybe that fragmentation will make this process less painful for us. And instead of indiscriminate total fusion we'll get a social regrouping on a new basis.
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