Part 4: Project Media

PROJECT OUTLINE 1

PROJECT OUTLINE 5

The following is the list of things that I will keep in mind in my project in regard to the six questions from the postman. This is on technology advancement and the role which it has played in the life of most people since in one way or another they have interacted with at least one type of technology in their daily lives. There are many positive and negative impacts that technology advancement has brought.

The technological advancement chosen 

The technological advancement which I have chosen is social media. This is an area that involves sharing of thoughts, ideas, and information and this has brought the creation of many virtual communities globally. The reason why I chose this technological advancement is that it has been widely accepted and adopted. So many people in one way or another interact with social media platforms almost every minute. There are many social media platforms and they include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and many others. Learning has become very easy as a result of this, (Anderson, et al, 2018).

The six questions which I am going to discuss are 

1. What is the problem for which this technology is the solution? 

· Connectivity issue; many people want to be connected and this has brought a lot of learning from each other in a very easy way.

 

2. Whose problem is it?

· Lack of connectivity yet people would like to know what is happening in other parts of the world.

3. Which people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by a technological solution?

· Media institutions; this is because people will not be relying on such media houses to get information but they can get it from social media platforms.

4. What new problems might be created because we have solved this problem?

· Addiction to social media

· Spreading of fake news

5. What sort of people and institutions might acquire special economic and political power because of technological change?

· Companies that deal with manufacturing and selling of those devices which are used in accessing social media platforms.

6. What language changes are being enforced by new technologies, and what is being gained and lost by such changes?

· English; this has made most of the people forget their native language since they are communicating in a way that will be understood by many people, (Hjorth & Hinton, 2019).

 

Steps in answering the questions 

· Consideration of the technology which I have chosen; in this case, I chose social media because a very high percentage of the people nowadays are very familiar with these platforms.

· Benefits of using the technological advancement; the advantage is that people are in a position to connect so easily with people who are in different parts of the world. This is making learning to be very easy for people.

· Challenges of using the technological advancement; this is that people are spending most of their time online and some have become very lazy, high instances of some institutions are closed and the likelihood of forgetting the native languages since this means using English in most of the times.

Obstacles encountered 

· Some of the questions have not specified whether one should answer the question based on the technology which has been selected or it is supposed to be all technology in general. I decided that I will base all my answers on the technology which I have chosen.

 

 

References

Anderson, M., & Jiang, J. (2018). Teens, social media & technology 2018. Pew Research Center, 31(2018), 1673-1689. Retrieved from http://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Teens-Social-Media-Technology-2018-PEW.pdf

Hjorth, L., & Hinton, S. (2019). Understanding social media. Sage. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZL6rDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=social+media&ots=Q8uOzc9Tau&sig=MiCJxqxuIN-SqWnCtnLCRiTf6b8