Friday, 22 February 2013
Communication Technology Essay Assignment
In
21st century that we live in, communication can be done in many
different ways other than conventional speaking right in front of each other.
The reason for that is because of the existence of communication technology and
the wide interest in this technology from people around the world.
Communication technology is improving as we speak and more important sector is
depending on it to gain benefits such as business and politics. Communication technology
includes telephone, radio, television, internet, and social media.
Communication
Technology impact on public and private life
Communication Technology has a profound impact on
both public and private life. In public life communication technology serve
more advantages than disadvantages. We can find friends through social media or
online game sites, we can even find suitable partner through dating sites. The
disadvantages are that people can provide false information and exploit the
advantages of social media on people public life and cause misunderstanding,
loss of properties or sometimes even lives.
In private
life, the disadvantages are more than the advantages. The advantages are that
we can communicate and stay connected with our family or friends online, but it
is also easy for hackers to access our personal profile online. Many cases have
been reported that such incidents do frequently happen. For example, taken from
a website;” Gang Used Social Media Sites to Identify
Potential Victims” (Teen Prostitution 2012). Our private lives are easily
exploited through the advancement of Communication Technologies too.
Development of Communication and
Information Technology
Communication
technology helps us in many ways. Communication Technology can broadcast
information to a wide range of people around the world in a short period of
time, this is very useful for advertisements, conveying important messages to
wide range of audiences and updating citizens of current news. Communication
nowadays can even be accessible from anywhere as long as the device can connect
to the internet and there is internet coverage in that area. Part of the
advancement of communication technology is credited to the invention of
Smartphone in the market that makes it easier to access and connected to
different types Communication Technologies.
Social
media has became the most popular and most effective aspect of communication technology,
the reason being users around the world can communicate with each other
anywhere and anytime they are on the internet. Social media became the most
used communication technology in comparison to television, radio, and
conventional telephone. Advertisement companies and even political figures
around the world use social media network to convey their message. As shown in
a video online, radio took 38 years to reach a market audience of 50 million,
television took 13 years, internet took 4 years, Ipod took 3 years and social
media giant-Face book took only 2 years. (Did You Know 3.0 2012) This proves that communication technology
is improving over the years and is an important way of broadcasting
information.
Communication Technology has been improving and
developing since the first television was born, many ideas and suggestion of
what the future will look like with the continuous development on communication
technology. Avery interesting example of the advancement on communication
technology is a device called Sixth Sense technology. “Sixth Sense is a wearable gestural interface device
by Pranav Mistry, a PhD candidate in the Fluid Interfaces Group at
the MIT Media Lab”. (Sixth Sense 2010) This technology shows that
technology can be more interactive with human and someday we will not have to
wear or bring many different types of devices such as hand phone, watch, I Pad,
IPod, but one device can provide information from all the devices we have now
combined and so much more.
Advantages and Disadvantages of
Communication Technology
As mentioned above, Communication Technology
provides advantage and disadvantages to our society. The advantages of
communication technology are none other than the reason communication
technology are being invented for, to let people around the world to
communicate freely to each other, but now communication technology can share
even more things such as photos, videos, and even organize events with people
we did not know before. But with the nature of communication technology to be
free and open to everyone, some people tend to misuse communication technology
for personal gain and interest by affecting other people. Besides addiction, the
issue of communication technology these days are users around the world did not
use the provided communication technology “smartly”. Users of communication
technology should be aware and educated about the do’s and don’ts using
communication technology such as social media. There have been cases where
people post their social number or even bank account carelessly on their social
media that attracts the idea of exploiting the advantages of communication
technology. Some users that post all kinds of photos on their social media also
provide ample of information to the public and easily can be targeted by
culprits.
Legislation concerning
Communication Technology
To protect the people of their country, governments
around the world have made health, safety and communications legislations. In
Ireland, Data Protection Act 1988 has been produced and was amendment by Data
Protection (Amendment) Act 2003. This act is to provide security when important
personal information is given to an organisation or individual to a person. The
aim of these rights is to help you to make sure that the information stored about you is:
- factually correct;
- only available to those who should have it;
- only used for stated purposes.(Data Protection
Commissioner)
Freedom of Information Act 1997 have also been
produced in Ireland and amended by the Freedom of Information Act (Amendment)
2003. The Freedom of
Information Act establishes the following statutory rights:
- A legal right for each person to access
information held by public bodies and government departments
- A legal right for each person to have official
information relating to himself/herself amended where it is incomplete,
incorrect or misleading
- A legal right to obtain reasons for decisions
affecting himself/herself. (Freedom of information in Ireland)
In summary, communication technology provides
advantages and disadvantages and without a doubt have a huge impact on society
and the future. Communication technology can be said to be the invention of the
century because of the changes it make to the human race, it can be said to be
the “line” that distinguish between the era of information technology in
comparison to the last era. Communication technology provides an insight to our
future and will continue to bring benefit to our society provided we keep in
mind of how to use communication technology efficiently.
Bibliography
·
(Did You Know 3.0
2012) Did You Know 3.0 (Officially updated for
2012) HD
·
(Teen Prostitution
2012)
·
(Data Protection
Commissioner)
·
(Freedom of information
in Ireland)
·
(Sixth Sense 2010)
Pranav Mistry
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