8th Topic: Technology and Media

It’s typical for a new technology to be adapted within a culture and used to support existing patterns of behavior. With your own relevant examples, answer these questions.

1) What kind of culture influences through technology can you see from today’s world?
2) Is there a possibility to reshape the (new) culture today via new technology, How?

Here is a "viral video" that I found which fits the answers to the question perfectly, created by anthropology faculty & students at Kansas State University:



1st Critical Reflection
What kind of culture influences through technology can you see from today’s world?
There are many kinds of cultural influences through technology nowadays that gives a huge impact throughout the world. One of the basic influence that I can see is most people nowadays use to type the words rather than writing it down by using mobile phones or laptops. More and more people start doing this as the found out that this way we can edit it easily to correct the spelling, grammatical errors, and rearrange the words easily. By just pressing the key, the letters will come out instantly rather than need to draw the lines to create a letter which takes time. Other than that, we can also write notes on our mobile phones which we can easily carry it anywhere rather than bringing 2 items like a pen and a small notebook.

2nd Critical Reflection
Is there a possibility to reshape the (new) culture today via new technology, How?
With all the technology around us which grows each second, there is a possibility to reshape the culture. Past great writers may just use a feather pen to write a story, while writers today use computers to just type the words away. I found an interesting article regarding on this topic:
The students’ inspirations may have been great painters like Braque, Dali and Hockney, but their canvas was a computer and their palette Photoshop, version 8.0.
Princeton University weekly bulletin

Based on the article, we can conclude that the cultures have been changed with the presence of new technologies. This helps us if we look it in a good way which enhance our way of doing things. Lastly, our culture today have been reshape by the influence of the new technology that expanding worldwide.

Personal Reflection
The class this week was pretty interesting. The lecture is about the technology and media that is changing our culture by Mdm Helena. The video on the twitter that's say about Facebook and the Internet Culture was really interesting, not to forget about the use of iPhone that which changes the culture and make our lives easier.

This is also the last post for the Media Culture blog assignment. Throughout this class, I really enjoyed learning this subject and I've learned a lot on how media works around us. Thanks Mdm Helena & Mr Radzi for guiding us throughout this semester. =)


with... as always... PASSION!
~Fadhil~

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