I think digital media is impeding and expanding our knowledge. There are so many pros and cons to this topic. Digital media is so big in today’s world that it’s still expanding and so many new digital media outlets are coming out, but two major powerhouse digital media in today’s world are Facebook and google these two companies have data from millions to even probably billions across the world. One thing I like is my privacy and when I see our government is involved in data mining it worries me especially what they said in this article it states that “There are more than 100 million registered Twitter users, and the Library of Congress recently announced that it will be acquiring — and permanently storing — the entire archive of public Twitter posts since 2006.” “new york times” whenever I hear that the government is involved it automatically shows me that whatever we are doing is under watch which is creepy, this is a con toward digital media. The way it is helping us expand our knowledge is that we can access more information and learn from different digital media outlets, for example whenever am stuck on an assignment in go straight to google and it finds my answer or if im looking for a specific place it finds it or if I need to do research it helps me tremendously. Also, another example is youtube if you want to learn how to do anything and I mean anything youtube can pull up a video and there would be someone instructing you on how to bake a cake, lift weights, how to hack your iPhone, or hack someone on Xbox, this goes to show you you can gain knowledge from the web. Furthermore, we as a civilization have been evolving for millions of years and in the 21st century it’s happening even quicker we as a people always have something bad to say about new technology or even new digital media outlets, but before saying anything negative without the internet we wouldn’t be where we are at today without it.
Sep 16 2020
