Critical reflection 1 (WEEK9)

Using McLuhan's "Tetrad of Media"choose a medium or media application or tool (e.g. newspaper, books, radio, tv, film, internet, computer games, handphone, instant messaging, blogging, online advertising, youtube, facebook etc.) and explain its media effects? Please refer to Week 9's lecture notes plus your own research to discuss this topic.


Handphone is a tool let us communicate and deliver message to each other as easily. People they are using handphone, they no need to use the public telephone to contact to other people. It is very waste time and trouble.

In enhances of handphone sure not only for making call and receive call. It also can be using in sms(short message service), mms(message-enhancement system)a system that enables sounds, images, or animations to be incorporated into text message.3G(3 rd Generation) it can video calling, high-speed video streaming, and mobile Internet six times faster than the current GSM and so on.

Nowadays, handphone was retrieved more functional. In previous, we can saw people make call with the cellular phone and now it become the small and easy to bring it out. From black and white screen retrieved to color screen. Previously handphone only can let us make call only but now it also have the function to have wireless online, take picture, MP3 and so on more.

For reverse of handphone. Nowadays, handphone seem like our necessaries. so we need to pay a lot when we making call. And sometime some "company" will call us want us join in to their group and many people was been cheated. Especially for the business man, teenage, housewife and so on. The over-extension of phone culture engenders a need for solitude.

What is obsolesce? Obsolesce mean if some aspect was enhanced and the old condition will been displaced. For obsolesce handphone makes public phone and normal telephone obsolesce. People was already think public phone and normal telephone is useless in their life so they will prefer to use handphone because it is more functional and convenient.