Digital Media Culture

            Reading this section of the book made me realize how important technology has become to society. It is amazing to know that now a day new thing are invented that takes such little space and weights almost nothing. For instance, now you can buy a USB that can store important documents and information. Not only documents can be stored in this particular device but memorable photos and videos. In such a little item you can store so much and connect it to any computer device. The reason why I brought this particular term up is because, it shows only shows us how much technology has expand among us. Before we would have been obligated to take a huge device in order to share certain information. Now is easy and plenty of light weight devices.

            The internet has become the most used device in today’s society as we are all familiar with. As mentioned by Barker the internet is an open resource in which any person can go into. It does not matter the age, gender, sex or class, nationality you may belong to. As reading this description I found it both beneficial but then again not really. Why you may be asking yourself? Well for one I found if beneficial because the internet is a free place where people from different cultures can come together as one. And secondly get along with no issue on who you are and what you may be getting involved with. I do believe it is the one place where people can share information without caring about a person’s economic status nor race as already mention or even what political party they take part in. Thirdly the internet has become a helpful resource to all users. It shares information that can expand ones knowledge and often times allows people who do not read to actually practice it more online. The only bad thing is that often time’s peoples identity has been stolen through the internet. And many incidents that are not positive have occurred because of the internet such as dating and many women either disappearing or getting killed. Other then that the internet has more positive usage then negative. It is a matter of know how to make good use of it rather than doing something risky. For many parents I believe they should just teach their children about the risks and also monitor their internet browsers.  Something else that was brought up was the blog access. The reason why I decided to talk about the blogs was because we are currently using them in our class. In the description used compares to the way I understood the usage of the blogs. The blogs are used to inform people about a particular situation and one is to post their opinion about it. I really enjoyed the fact that this actually exists it has been the first time I ever make use of this. I enjoy the fact that one can read anything and post up their thoughts freely. There is no right or wrong answer you just find out about different thoughts and discuss it with people from different places or in our case classmates.