Week 1 of Semester 2 started out similar to Week 1 of Semester 1; confusion, a disability with time management and expectations and revelations about the courses I enrolled myself in.
Lecture 1 for New Communications Technologies marked the beginning of Semester 2 for me. During the lecture we were instructed that we needed to begin a blog. Now, you wouldn't exactly call me a computer professional; I am more the learn-the-need-to-know-skills about computers; however as I write this I have successfully begun drafting my first ever blog. The first challenge for our first commencing Tute Spark was to create our own blog site and email the information off. I can safely say this task is now complete.
I am studying New Communications, however how can we distinguish the difference of what defines new and old communications. We live in a society where technology is forever evolving. The constant advancements in technology in turn effect the most efficient and valuable way in which society communicates. Ten years ago social networking was nothing more than an idea, now social networking is the way in which the 21st century communicates. Families would have to wait weeks to receive a letter from their children traveling the world, however through advancements in technology we can now have access to programs that allow us to see people on the other side of the world.
New communications become old when a new device is created and designed in a more efficient way and provides the same outcome. Thus, every new communication will eventually become identified as an old communication.
