Media tecnologia

Newspapers – Are an older form of communication, it provides up to date events for locals and national news. The paper also includes advertisements for stores with upcoming sales, and the weekly food coupons. A person can look to the classifieds to find work, pets, automobiles and living spaces. There is a section in regards to sports and entertainments, another on the local news, such as high schools and college information. And another section about national news with politics. The newspaper is also something that you can hold and feel in your hands, some people like to feel and smell that paper and be able to turn the pages. It is also good for wrapping gifts with the Funnies section! There are a number of different papers, in Arizona we have The Arizona Republic, The Ahwatukee Foothills News, and The Scottsdale Chronicle to name a few, then there is always the infamous New York Times. For those of us not living in New York we can subscribe to the New York Times and have it delivered to our homes, or we can access the paper online or even more easily on our smart phone. Sadly, newspapers seem to be a dying sort, with the rise of modern technology, waiting to get the newspaper seems like old news. I will admit that waiting for my newspaper has only been to use to start the fire in my fireplace and for stuffing in a Christmas gift.

Digital Media – Items such as cell phones, iPods, or computers can fall into this category of digital media. Apple has created a sort of media phenomena with their products of phones, MP3 players and computers. Cell phones have come a long way since the “suitcase brick” that people used to tug around when they first started making mobile phones. Now we can use our phones obviously to make and receive phone calls, but also to browse the internet, text message our friends in “no-call” situations, take pictures, play games, listen to music and even read books now. The same goes for computers these days. A person can do so much on their own with a computer – they can create documents, power point presentations, videos, and their own music. The MP3 player can be used for music, but also if you are an iPod Touch user, you can have an internet enabled music player, you can use it for games and to take photos as well. The only downfall for all this digital media – a person gets consumed by always being in contact and now our airplanes are becoming WiFi enabled so we can stay in touch while flying! I don’t know about you, but I tend to enjoy my flight time as the only time I can be completely shut off from the world for a few short hours.

Internet – The world wide web is exactly that, it is a place that webs together an innumerable amount of places and information that people every where can access. A person can jump onto the web and look up symptoms for an illness at WebMD.com, they can check the weather on their favorite browser such as MSN.com or Yahoo.com, or check out local news for Arizona at AZCentral.com. Networking for business has come to the web as well with sites like LinkedIn, where employers can create sites for their companies, employees can network with others in their industry, its a place to look for work as well. A person can literally find anything and everything on the web, social networking sites like Myspace.com or Facebook.com have given the world a look into a person private life, but also they can control their privacy settings but still need to be cautious about what is put online about ourselves. The internet is a modern day instant newspaper, no more waiting for the paper delivery, running to the corner store to pick up your copy, or worrying about the sprinklers ruining the outermost pages.

Radio – While most tend to listen to the radio for music and flip through the channels during commercials there are some that listen to those commercials and traffic reports religiously. The radio also exists as an outlet for local police stations to send out Amber Alert’s when children go missing or kidnapped. There are quite a few types of stations, you’ve got your typical music stations that include news in the morning shows, then some that include news throughout the day, and then those that are specifically news shows or entertainment. With times changing and people not wanting to listen to commercials more often the creation of XM Radio and Sirius Radio have created a multitude of stations to choose from that are played with limited to no commercial breaks. Grated these radio systems cost a monthly fee, it seems that everything we want with ease of access cost us something nowadays. Even with the creation of iPods and other MP3 players the radio still blares from peoples vehicles as they drive down the road – you know it’s the radio when you hear the commercial breaks.