Communication is one primary factor that involves the society today to its capabilities of progress for the future. This is primary the reason why it is very important to consider social current advancements with regards communication in actually assessing the capabilities of the people in understanding the importance of interpersonal communication within the human communities. In this regard it is important to discuss the different patterns of modern communication in the society today to actually interpret the improvements that are presented to the human population in terms of interpersonal communication.
Among the topics to be discussed herein include those that are involving the modern procedures of group communication used in different areas of concern in the human society such as education, business and plain social connection. The Impact of PODCASTING in Interpersonal Communication THE writers of science fiction stories often describe a world where giant computers control government, industry and commerce. More than that, they envision the time when every home has access to a computer that serves as a household manager and provides knowledge and information or advice on any subject—all at the touch of a button.
During the last 25 years, the use of computers has grown from something of a novelty into a multibillion-dollar industry. Twenty years ago, there were only about 100 computers in the world, whereas today there are about 300,000. The next two decades could see them numbering into the tens of millions (Chandra, 2004,15). Along with all these, videos and audio effects were also inculcated into the educational processes in the learning industry. Different ways are designed to be able to reach the students’ interests through the use of media visual aids.
As the process continued to get along, more and more inventions came with it, thus making the learning process more innovative and easier to grasp for the students. When the internet began to enter the information-transfer industry, learning through the world wide web also became possible and easier for many students of all ages. Everything tried to adjust for these students’ demands from the services of the Internet. With all these improvements in the computing industry, sending messages through the use of the Internet connections around the world have been much practical for meeting people from every part of the earth.
Now, even education is already available through the net. Podcasting is one of the innovations found to be very effective by net learners today. What is podcasting and how far has it reached efficiency when it comes to the applications of educational programs? Has podcasting taken over the traditional way of reaching the students with the necessary informations they need for learning? The roots and Effectiveness of Podcasting Podcasting has been first introduced to the media systems in the year 2000 and when the years 2001 came, the wide innovation of the podcasting system has been started.
It was year 2003 when podcasts began to appear on many websites in the Internet. (Cochrane, 2005, 47) This technological application works through ‘push-feed’ system. It is through the choice of the subscriber that the applications and the videos are transferred through the net towards the site being checked out by the surfer. In an overall view, podcasts are media materials that are passed on between providers and receivers through the Internet. It is mainly characterized by an analogous system of presenting the videos to the audiences (Farkas, 2006, 56).
The videos created through this application are posted through a publicly accessible site and then the tabs are provided for the surfer to access the certain video they would want to view. The surfer is able to access the podcasts through an available URL (a general-purpose Internet address). Then through this, the podcasts are then passed to the surfers for viewing. Once these podcasts are activated, they serve as a regular updating program which at the same time constantly informs the surfer of the new updates regarding their subscriptions.
(Felix & Stolarz, 2006, 53) Podcasting and how it affects the Education Process As mentioned earlier, the technological innovations in the new era have obviously changed the trends of educational processes in the present system of educating. In connection with this fact, podcasting has also had a promising venture in educating the society. Through the use of high and excellent animation and video streaming, learning could be brought out about in a more lively way.
As education experts mentions how some people have the hard time learning things especially without the existence of visual aids, podcasting could be a big help in bringing the necessary informations to learners who are highly inspired through visual effects. In addition to that, the existence of portable media processors such as celphones and other media player devices, the podcasting system becomes a very practical way of being “regularly” educated despite of their busy daily lives.
College students also have much benefit from the said application as much of their subjects learned from school could actually be posted through the Internet and be posted as a video cuts. As it has been described by Internet experts and media enthusiasts, podcasting has not only been used to simply entertain the public through the use of shared videos. Now, school lessons and other video clips from classrooms could already be sent through the internet. In this manner, the students who are usually left behind in their subjects have the chance of catching up through the use of podcasting.
(Demopoulus, 2006, 74) Blogging and E-Mails A COMMON resource provided by the Internet is a worldwide system for sending and receiving electronic mail, known as E-mail. In fact, E-mail represents a large portion of all Internet traffic and is for many the only Internet resource they use. Unlike the regular mail, E-mail often reaches its destination, even on other continents, in minutes or less unless some part of the network is heavily congested or temporarily out of order. When your daughter inspects her electronic mailbox, she will discover your E-mail.
The speed of E-mail and the ease with which it can be sent even to multiple recipients all over the world make it a popular form of communication. E-mails used to be the main ways in which people could communicate to other people around the world through the Internet. However, the market for information posting has gradually grown fast and now, the birth of Internet blogging has been introduced. One of the original Internet goals was global information sharing. The teacher mentioned in the previous article located another educator on the Internet who was willing to share already developed course materials.
Within minutes, the files were transferred, despite a 2,000-mile distance. (Holtz & Demopoulus, 2006, 87) By using a Web browser, a person can easily and quickly views information and colorful graphics that may be stored on computers in many different countries. Using a Web browser can be similar in some ways to actual travel, only easier. One can visit the Web exhibits of the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Holocaust Memorial Museum. This ability to move nimbly back and forth from one Internet Web site to another is commonly called surfing the Net.
With all these goals, Internet Blogging has been introduced to host several Internet surfers with regards to their want of being able to inform others of what they need and what they want to know. Along with this, it is also through Internet blogging that many information sharers are able to post their data through the net for others to appreciate and even learn from. Blogging Benefits The word ‘blog” came from two words, ‘web’ and ‘log’. The main idea of web logging or blogging at that is for Internet surfers to be able to log in the Internet system and thus be able to post their ideas to be able to share the informations to other surfers.
(Mc Bride & Carson, 2006, 65) There are numerous types of blogs, which are found in the Internet. Usually, these informations are divided by the subjects that they discuss, and are also highly opinionated. The first blog types, which became popular in the Internet community are personal blogs which looked too much of a personal diary of several surfers. Then as time pass, the topics for blogs became more diverse and are more related to the current events in the society. Most blogs contain four divisions. These divisions are the title, the body, the permalink and the Post date.
The title is mainly the header which suggests in what genre of topic the blog belongs to, while the body is the main idea of the blog. The permalink is the URL of thee full, individual article and the post date is the exact time and date when the blog was posted through the net for public viewing or reading. (Stone, 2002, 85) Because of the wide scope of the blogging activity with regards to the topics being discussed by ‘bloggers’, many Internet surfers find the articles especially done by people around the globe to be very popular.
At times, blogs are referred to as very entertaining means of writing as well as reading. In this regard, many surfers are also able to learn so much from the blogs posted through the worldwide web. Blogging and Education USING the Internet, David, a teacher in the United States, acquired course materials. A Canadian father accessed it to stay in contact with his daughter in Russia. Loma, a homemaker, used it to examine scientific research on the early beginnings of the universe. A farmer turned to it to find information about new planting methods that make use of satellites.
Corporations are drawn to it because of its power to advertise their products and services to millions of potential customers. People around the globe read the latest national and international news by means of its vast reporting and information services. (Tremayne,2006, 41) Imagine a room filled with many spiders, each spinning its own web. The webs are so interconnected that the spiders can travel freely within this maze. You now have a simplified view of the Internet—a global collection of many different types of computers and computer networks that are linked together.
Just as a telephone enables you to talk to someone on the other side of the earth who also has a phone, the Internet enables a person to sit at his computer and exchange information with other computers and computer users anyplace in the world. Some refer to the Internet as the information superhighway. Just as a road allows travel through different areas of a country, so the Internet allows information to flow through many different interconnected computer networks. As messages travel, each network that is reached contains information that assists in connecting to the adjacent network.
The final destination may be in a different city or country. It is also through the Internet that bloggers are able to connect to the word and inform them of the necessary things they should know. Yes, even the college courses and the curriculums of different universities across the different countries could already be found available in many web blogs which are easily accessible for students. Media Procedures and Mediums in Human Communication Journalists and editors often select news that fascinates the public but that may not be of real significance.
Priority is given to what is sensational or eye-catching so as to increase circulation and ratings. Stars of the entertainment and sports worlds are featured, regardless of what kind of role models they provide for the young. Therefore, if one of them takes a lover, marries, or dies, it often makes the news. Television news generally features subjects that have visual appeal. The head of a major television broadcasting firm, as reported in TV Guide magazine, “declared he wanted ‘moments’ on the broadcasts—gut-wrenching, sensational moments to lure the viewer in every story.
” Indeed, attracting viewers is usually of greater concern than is educating the public. ( As quoted by Sahver, 2000, 87) The way events are portrayed may fail to provide the whole picture. As an example, a weekly supplement to the French daily Le Monde told of “three television sets exploding [in France] in just fifteen days. ” Although this was presented as something unusual, the number of explosions of television sets for that 15-day period was actually smaller than normal.
(as quoted by Richardson, 2006, 74) Yes, one of the most popular media systems used in the society today is the television works. Along with this are the Internet and other technological devices used for information transfer. Today, these popular trends in media are also already used for educating the young generation. Media and Education Former advertising executive Jerry Mander wrote regarding the impact that television has on our lives: “More than any other single effect, television places images in our brains.
” Those mental images, however, do much more than entertain us. The Family Therapy Networker magazine says: “The language, images, sounds, ideas, characters, situations, values, aesthetics of mass media become the stuff of our thoughts, feelings and imaginings. ” (as quoted by McChesney & Newman, 2005, 78) Images transmitted to our mind through the eyes exert a powerful influence on our thoughts and actions. Indeed, among the many ways of influencing the society, media has so far reached its peak effect in the people of the communities around the globe.
This is the main reason why educators consider media as a major way of influencing or in some ways encouraging the students to study hard in a very effective way. Media has long been used as a medium of sharing information, but it is just these times when educators realized the effects of media on the young generation. Media is considered a way of sharing or passing information through many types of information transfer. Now, the most appreciated means of information travel is the Internet. Surely, the Internet holds the most possible informations available for sharing through technological devices.
Through this, the basic forms of educational help such as online libraries and even online courses are already available through the net. These trends in technology and in media have in many ways affected the ways in which students prefer to learn. Media culture as well as the innovations on the said field of technological advancements has had some vast effects upon the educational improvements in the society for the past few decades. In this manner, many students around the globe intend to adapt better to the media generated learning than the traditional way of obtaining knowledge.
Although classrooms are still present to cater to the personal needs of classroom students, many students rather prefer the ‘virtual education’ enhanced by media simply because of the fact that many students today are more busy compared to the students of the previous decades. Collaboration of Educators through Media As it has been said earlier, media remains to be the most influential means of information transfer today. On the other hand, Internet remains to be among the top choice of both students and educators as well. Certainly, in this manner, educators are also able to collaborate with one another through the Internet.
They are able to interact with each other on how to use this recent device of media technology in a more effective way of educating the young generation. Being able to see how far other educators are able to cope up with these educational changes is an important factor for the growth of the educator. In this manner, educators are able to evaluate themselves as well as with the way they teach thus, they are also able to make amends and adjustments on their teaching methods to be able to provide ample knowledge to their students even simply through the use of the Internet. Conclusion
Indeed, technological innovations are highly appreciated by the society today. Education, as one aspect of social learning has also embraced the said innovation and thus accepted the challenge of getting along with technology’s new inventions. Through these innovations, education became more accessible for many and also more practical to obtain even for busy people in the society. As the present generation continues to face many technological advancements, it would not be very surprising if education also continues to evolve along with the social changes, and thus keep getting better.
Through all these innovations, it is true that education also keeps getting more progressive and developed, designed for the new generation to appreciate and accept in many ways possible. THE Internet certainly has potential for educational use and day-to-day communication. Yet, stripped of its high-tech gloss, the Internet is beset with some of the same problems that have long afflicted television, telephones, newspapers, and libraries. Well, the Internet can place such information at one’s fingertips.
It enables a person to sit at his computer and exchange information with other computers and computer users anywhere in the world. It allows users to sell products, to make purchases, to make banking transactions, to converse, to listen to the latest music recordings—all in the privacy of their own home. Little wonder, then, that some experts predict that over 320 million people will be using the Internet by the end of this year. Use of the Internet is thus becoming commonplace in many parts of the world. With schools and libraries aggressively promoting its use, millions of young people have access to it.
In the United States, nearly 65 percent of youths between the ages of 12 and 19 have already used or subscribed to on-line service. In the article “21st Century Skills: Will our students be prepared”, John Wilson as quoted by Judy Salpeter commented on the need of innovating educating systems this way: “While previous works have focused on technology, this goes beyond what we need to do to provide to prepare students for a world that is vastly transformed by technology, making it necessary to constantly learn and adapt”.
Surely, this means that constant adaptation to the new innovations of technology as a means of educating the people would naturally bring great results to students with their preparation in facing a world of technological inventions.
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