New New New New Media

Looking at New New Media, I began to think about evolution. Not necessarily in a scientific way, but the evolution of media. History shows us that some media forms become extinct because of newer and better technology takes its place. In my term paper, I take a look at one specific medium that in it's heyday revolutionized communication but now, thanks to new competing technologies is becoming less relevant. The medium I speak of is Radio, specifically terrestrial radio. Go figure, I concentrate a bulk of my education and training in a technology that may be the next to go.

Other than radio, I believe new new new media threatens all modern day prevalent communication technologies of yesteryear. The personal computer in conjunction with the almighty internet has the ability to facilitate the transportation of any message, image, sound and text. Through social media, users are getting a more personalized bevy of information. They receive what they want to. There's less of the need for the mass message when social media has given individuals a platform on the global stage.

I'd like to say this evolution will take years perhaps a lifetime to get to the point of extinction for mainstay media technologies like radio and television. I'd like to say that because I'm hoping to have a career in either of the two, but the most amazing thing of about new new media and tech-o-lution is it's speed. It's moving pretty fast now and it only seems to be getting faster. It's impossible to predict where media will be, "When I'm Sixty-Four."