New media is an avenue of the people to stay connected with their family, relatives and friends in the cyber world. Aside from old type of media: broadcast and print, internet is a new media of the modern era because it relays information through different web and social networking sites. This is an arena where people can interact, be updated at all-time compared to customary media such as print, radio and T.V and to stay connected in cyber world as if in just one click, you can be in your destination.
There are many advantages of new media as it plays vital role to the modern world. First, it is a main tool to access information anywhere and anytime. It is mostly used by the students nowadays in doing a research without spending a too much time in a mind-numbing library filled with hefty and dusty books. Our second best friend next to Google, Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is one example of the new media inclination. Second, it adds up to the new media craze because of its interactive features that allows people to exchange their ideas, views an opinions about one certain topic posted in the internet. Third, it will be easy for us to send our feedback every time a particular discrepancy is publicly observed or any erroneous remark done by a famous personality as if you have the freedom to ventilate your opinions. Fourth, new media has its way of keeping up with today’s generation because of its digital frame like the use of global positioning system to locate the familiar and unfamiliar location as well as it is a visual roads and rail networks of communication. Being born with our umbilical chords connected to the internet here in our modern, modern generation, it is not impossible that the new media caught the attention of today’s youth.
Talking about the disadvantages of new media however, we have attitude first on our list. Now that more students rely on the internet when doing their research, the values of the books are now being lessened. Because it’s faster getting the information that we want from the net rather than in books, plus the process of finding and borrowing it, sometimes we set aside whether the information that we got from the net is too broad unlike the precise, compact, and juicy stuff captured in books.
Next one is laziness. Because we know that the answer to our homework is just one click away in our PC’s at home with our ever so friendly best pal, internet, sometimes we tend to copy – paste the information we need and don’t read our research at all. Now, that wouldn’t happen if we copy it from a book using our pen and paper wherein we can read while we write unlike dragging the whole article out and pasting it into a freshly opened Microsoft Word.
And the worst one is plagiarism. It is easy to get ones’ work without everyone noticing it because the internet is so huge, not everyone can get through it thoroughly to check if a person’s write up is just a stolen idea from another. But be in the traditional media, more people will know whether that idea was just copied from a movie, a show or a magazine.
Everything has good and bad effects. Once we understand the proper usage of that thing, we can get to utilize it to the fullest without the consequences of losing our values in life.