Looking back on class assignments, I can for sure say that media will always evolve and politics with go with it. One day on our smart.....whatevers, we probably will see a hologram image of live events happening. Technology will forever change how we get our daily or minutely news. Media and social media have become an important aspect of our daily lives. It's like we can't put our phone down long enough to enjoy the moment. We have to be in the "business" of the word. Politics and political events have become right to our finger tips. We can "like", "retweet", or start or join a hashtag for a cause. Mass social media has become a voice of the world. When Boko Haram kidnapped the school girls, social media exploded with #bringbackourgirls, prompting governments all around the world to get involved some way to condemn the actions. A global community brought together by the evolution of media. That is how media is changing forever and the world changes with it.
Hey Jason,
ReplyDeleteYou make several interesting points about media and politics. From what we have learned in class we have been seeing a tremendous amount of relationships between media and politics. As you mentioned above, the Boko Haram kidnappings, caused a huge call for support from many political leaders and activist. They used twitter to communicate with people and to help coordinate their efforts at getting people involved in trying to save all the girls taken. As Clay Shirky stated in "The Political Power of Social Media," "Recent protest movements.....have used social media not as a replacement for real-world action but but as a way to coordinate it." (Shirky) I believe that this is true with social media in todays society. It can be used as a tool to coordinate movements and to also deliver messages to political figures as well. For example, the mother of Steven Sotloff used an Internet video to communicate with ISIS. I think that media is changing the world but is it changing the world to fast?