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3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses consensus, conflict and interactionism as they relate to technology and cultural change. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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This never-ending infusion of news has cultivated a global society where people are better informed about events that impact - or merely interest - them. Jenkins (2001) notes
how "broadcasting will provide the common culture, the Web will provide more localized channels for responding to that culture and challenging the consensus narrative," which illustrates the inextricable connection that
exists - and will continue to exist - between mass media and on-demand information. One can readily use the magazine industry as a
point of comparison, counting how many publishers are giving away their titles for free six-month subscriptions just to continue circulating their magazines, hoping against high odds that the recipients will
enjoy it enough to purchase a full subscription. But why should they when the general public can retrieve virtually any desired information for free from the Internet. Print
magazines just cannot compete with the speed, ease and price tag offered by the Internet, sometimes feeling the financial pinch from their own Web sites. Correspondingly, much the same way
television eclipsed radio more than a half a century ago, the extraordinary technological advancements of computers and the Internet will ultimately overpower the once-omnipotent mode of communication known as TV.
Television has been an untouchable resource of information and entertainment for the last six decades; to have this legacy of communication standard unseated so quickly and cleanly by the
progressive technology of computers and the Internet is a harsh reality many have seen materializing since before the new millennium. Conflict inherent to
technology and cultural changes can be found in the way the masses have cultivated intangible relationships with faceless people. It can readily be argued that as beneficial and advantageous
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