The first blog is always the most difficult, you never know what to say and write. So like most people, what did I do?
I Googled it.
From listing out all the different media platforms and applications I use and circling the ones I use everyday made me realise that there are so many different sources of media out there that we use on a regular basis.
While it occurred to me that I use the likes of Facebook and Instagram typically everyday, I didn’t occur to me that Google was included. Spotify was included. Even Microsoft Word was included! We have all these media applications and platform all around us, it would be more of a challenge not to use them. In fact, we rely on them a lot in our lives.
Yes there used to be other ways to do the things that we now use media for, such as things as simple as talking to one another, but now we have the option to do this in so many different way; call, text, email, snap, video chat, the list goes on…
And the amazing part is, the conversation can be totally different depending how you decide to communicate to somebody (no wonder so many texts/messages are misinterpreted these days).
Language and New Media is already opening my eyes, so this blog really is going to be interesting to write over the next few weeks.
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