Technology and Human Communication

Role of the internet
By Mary Anne Winslow

With the expansion of broadband Internet, connections and progressively more complicated ways of density, new media is fundamentally reshaping our communication atmosphere; though it is the produce of two characteristic sets of equipment. Form one point of view ‘old’ media, from the age of publish through transmit and motion picture have a long reputation corporate practice and are clearly synchronized both in conditions of issues of content and allocation. Issues of possession, selling and allotment are well understood and have decades of authorized precedent demarcating limitations.

On the other hand ‘new’ media, focuses primarily on transformation from analogue to digital, are seen as too recent to have a well-established tradition of regulation and are too different from their predecessors to be easily regulated by older laws. The Internet is a social and economic fabric, created by people for the sake of human communication and interaction. It provides new areas for cultural expression and experimentation in a global socio-economic environment.

Basically it allows for more interactive and innovative ways for people to do what they do in 'real life'. Thus the Internet is but an extension of human imagination and creativity, a theorist named Lanier, argued that it is "the most precise mirror of people as a whole that we've yet had". However, while the image of the Internet as a mirror is accurate, it is still not a mirror of people as a whole. The fact that only an estimated 5-10% of the content on the Internet is of non-Western origin while the developing world population represents more than half of the world's population indicates how far the Internet is from true cultural and global diversity.

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