Blog 1 - Is new media having a positive or negative effect on culture and human communication?

New media has definitely changed the way humans communicate. The new media has transformed communication, especially since the invention of mobile phones. The change in communication began when the world wide web, as this allowed people to communicate across the world. Access to the internet is now available on mobile phone or PDA’s allowing even more options of communication along with calling and texting. However, this has caused to question whether new media has had a positive or negative outcome for our culture and communication.



As communication has become much more convenient it has definitely improved communication, which can only be a positive thing. However, the ability to send an e-mail to the other side of the world I think has caused governments and officials to be much more observant of their citizens, especially since the beginning of the 21st Century. So what effect has this had on our culture? Well privacy has become much more of an important aspect in human rights passed down from the EU. There are now more rules and protocols for the police and secrets service in order to acquire personal information such as accessing personal e-mails.

I think as a whole new media has had a positive impact on human communication as there are so many different ways to communicate nowadays. Communication has improved vastly compared to what it was just 20 years ago. However, some may say new technology has reduced physical human interaction for example calling someone instead of meeting up. Whether this is has a negative effect on human communication or more convenient is a difficult to say but I personally think that new media has had more of a positive effect on culture and human communication than a negative affect and will continue to do so in the future.