On a day to day basis, it seems as if media is taking over the world. I would like to take you on a trip. On this trip, I will explain to you how electronic media seems to be getting more powerful than print media in both context and delivery. Fasten your seat belt, this is going to be a bumpy ride!
Back when I was in elementary school, my babysitter would always take my sister and I to the library. This just took me on a walk down memory lane! Your only source was the library. From the fifth grade until now, it just hit me that media transitioned right before my eyes.
Electronic media has a way of having viewers engaged. How convenient is electronic media? Whether your on the bus headed to school or clocking into work, it is as if it is always there. I almost forgot to mention that I dislike, with a passion, going to the library. Everything would annoy me: the unorganized books, the limited amount of time you had to be on the computer, having to wait in line to use the printer, and so much more. “Libraries have been around too long and are no longer relevant”, says author author Terry Deary from the newspaper article The Guardian. Print media should just retire and let electronic media should take their positions.
According to the NYTimes article, “The End of Books” by Robert Coover, “…the last futile gasp of a once vital form before it finally passes away forever, dead as God”. I know that you probably think that this is just a bunch of jibber jabber. Coover is basically saying that books should be put to an end. It looks like society spend more time using their cellular phone than they do in going to a library. Your phone is in the palm of your hand and it allows you to have access to the web worldwide.
We have reached the part of the trip that I do not like. Hopefully, this car ride made you realize the importance of “new” media and why it is being broadcasted so much. Now, I have to gas her up and take her on another ride!
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