Critical reflection 2 (WEEK 11)

It’s typical for a new technology to be adapted within a culture and used to support existing patterns of behavior. With your own relevant examples, answer these questions.

1) What kind of culture influences through technology can you see from today’s world?
2) Is there a possibility to reshape the (new) culture today via new technology, How?

In my opinion, I think it is possible to reshape the new culture today via new technology. According to the Bob Garfield’s theory, the TV culture also out of date already why impossible to reshape the culture via new technology??

Nowadays, many people use the internet to watch the TV program. They only need to wait a few minutes then they watch their TV program when they free. Sometime we also can download it then we can watch it every time every day in every where. Though the network TV program we can watch the live demonstration, spot coverage. For example, Beijing Olympic ceremony, spot competition, news and so on. So from the Network TV program we can know the situation in other country, and get the new information on the time.
Use the TV program, we no need spend a lot of money to buy VCD player, DVD player, tape player to watch the TV serial. It is waste money.

Except the television, another example is dictionary. We can see less people are using dictionary now. It very thick, heavy, and troublesome. So less people bring it again. When we want t find some word it also troublesome to find. But nowadays, people are less using dictionary again. They use computer dictionary when they are facing some problem. Inside the computer dictionary is more functionally compare with the dictionary. We only need to key in the word and press enter, and the meaning will appear on the screen. The size of computer dictionary is small so easy to bring it out.

There are the examples of new technology I give, it was make our life easy and change our culture today.