This week, we do not have the lecture because Monday is public holiday. Finally, I spent this Monday to visit my friends who live in Bundora. On the way to Bundoora, sitting on the tram, I still thought about the topic I chose with my group mates, that is the institution.
This topic seems like easy but actually it is not simple. It is about the institution of media or the relations between media and institution. There is no doubt that there are rules in every area so that everything in that area can work without too many problems. Also, in media this area, there is an issue that appear in this century, will the new media replace the traditional media? According to the description of Google, ‘most technologies described as “new media” are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulated, networkable, dense, compressible, and interactive. Some examples may be the Internet, websites, computer multimedia, computer games, CD-ROMS, and DVDs.’ And then, also from the Google, ‘Traditional Media – television, radio, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, tax press and other print publications.’ The development of new media is fast and large-scale; more than 3 billion people are now using the Internet, according to the United Nations agency that oversees international communications. By the way, the number is keeping increasing. Comparing to people who burn in 20ty century, those young people who burn in 21st century are more familiar with new media.
So someone thinks it is possible that the new media can replace the traditional media.
In my opinion, I do not want to see a situation that the traditional media will disappear because of the new media. Moreover, I do not believe that the new media will replace the traditional media, and the coming situation may be that the traditional media would live with the new media. For example, in the history, the function of painting is similar with modern photography, recording people and events. However, the painting does not replaced by photography, they living together.
