Technology and death

Technoloogy has changed the way we handle the death of a friend or love one.  When someone close to you passes away you call everyone who is close to you to notify them of the death.  But what do you do about the people that you only know through the internet on social media?  What we do is we post on our social media sites the information of the passing of our loved one.  We also create posts to share our grief long after the passing of our loved one just to share our grief with our online friends who if they are good online friends they will encourage us back by commenting on our post to let us know they care and many times to let us know we are not alone. 



As a personal note from this writer I have many times placed something just like this to share my grief of losing my husband and my daughter with my online friends who in turn comment to encourage me and let me know I am not alone. 

The news in Technology

Technology has has a huge change in how we get our news and how fast we get our news.  Before the advances in technology we received news in one of two ways, newspaper and television news.  With the newspaper we got the news the next day and with television we got the news the same day if it happened early enough to make it to the newscasts.  With the advancements we now receive our news immediately if not sooner.  We now get up to date news via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram no matter where we are we are connected.  While this seems like a great thing to be able to get the news immediately it can also be a bad thing.  Take the case of TMZ releasing the news of the death of Kobe Bryant's death before his family was notified.  For his family to receive the news at the same time as the general public was inexcusable to have happen. 
  

Reference

TMZ. (2020, January 27). Retrieved March 6, 2020, from https://www.tmz.com/2020/01/26/kobe-bryant-killed-dead-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas/

Technology changes the arts

The advancement of technology has completely changed how we connect with people not only across town but across the world as well.  Technology has made big changes on the arts such as music and painting.  Many artists have turned to social media to promote their art. There are various ways this can be accomplished such as a setting up an Etsy page to sell their art.   A singer can also post videos on YouTube to promote their art. 


Reference

Etsy. (n.d.). Retrieved March 6, 2020,

YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved March 6, 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/

How technology has changed the way we interact

How long has it been since you have written a check for anything or used a telephone book to look up a phone number.  With the introduction of smart phones they became a source of portable technology and an accessory we carry with us everywhere we go. When is the last time you actually carried a camera with you to take a picture?  Now we always have a camera with us with the use of our smartphone. 






Technology has changed social relationships in the way that many people now spend their free time staring at their smart phone instead of having a face to face conversation with the person who is many times sitting right across the table from them.






Technology has a big impact on business many times allowing working people to be able to focus more on their skills in order to complete their job more professionally and to be able to communicate instantly with colleagues both in other states and countries (2019).




Roberta

References

How technology has changed the way we interact. (2019). Retrieved February 13, 2020, from https://www.newenglandcollegeonline.com/resources/sociology/how-technology-has-changed-the-way-we-interact/

4 ways technology has changed the way we communicate

In the past 50 years technology has been responsible for many changes in the way we communicate.  Many of the changes have taken place in the media as well as the speed of how we communicate.  Some of the basic means of communication have not changed and these are - thoughtfulness, clarity of expression, and good listening (Rosenthal, 2017).

Over the last ten years technology has made many powerful changes on communication, some good and some not as good.  Here are some changes that have had a big part of the change.

1.  Communiction abundance - It is less costly to have live, interactive conversations using many types of media which include Skype.  The downside of this is that being so cheap as to the point of being free people do not seem to give it much thought when they communicate this way.

2.  Asynchronous conversations - The advntage of using e-mail is that it gives you time to think about what you have written before you hit the send button.  Writing letters has become a lost art so to speak when many people used to keep letters they received as keepsakes.  Now we fire off e-mails without thinking or editing them as many people read an email and delete it as if it is nothing important.




3.  Less face time - We have become more reliant on our mobile devices that we have far fewer face-to-face conversations with people.  When speaking face-to-face people tend to stop to think what they are saying before they say it or at least stop and correct what they just said to clarify it.





4.  Self-Expression unleashed - Because of such things as blogs and twitter along with many other social media sites practically anybody cah find an audience for what they want to say.  While Twitter is a great site for getting information out during a disaster it can also become a place for haters who just want to spew their hatred.





Roberta

References:
Rosenthal, B. (2017, April 4). 4 Ways technology has changed the way we communicate. Retrieved February 13, 2020, from https://communispond.com/insights/blog/2017/04/04/652/4-ways-technology-has-changed-the-way-we-communicate/