Critical reflection 2 (WEEK 9)

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.

Internet is global computer network, a network that links computer networks all over the world by satellite and telephone, connecting users with service networks such as e-mail and the World Wide Web.

In enhances of the tetrad of media, internet was not only for searching information. We also can use internet of chatting, sending mail and using video call to communicate with each other. For example, MSN and Yahoo Messenger. We also can get entertainment from the website like Youtube, and download game, movie, song and so on.

Nowadays, internet was retrieved more popular and functional in our life. In previous, when we search some information we need to wait very long time, it very late and slow, and make people be fidgety. But now, we only need to wait a few second to get the information. It is fast, and we also can get the clear information.

For reverse of internet, although it is very useful in our lives, but some time internet also very trouble in our life especially for virus threat. It was bring many of negative effect for our computer, and sometime it also will damage our computer system. Besides, when we search the information from internet, sometime it will link us to another webpage like the “yellow page” so it will provide wrong information and show the pornography to let people have negative thinking or make people confuse

For obsolesce internet it makes news paper, dictionary, telegram, fax obsolesce. People only search from MSN, Yahoo, Google and any other website then they will get the news that happen beside us. For dictionary, we no need turn off the thick dictionary to find out the mean of the word, we can use Wikipedia to search, and it fast can clear. Next, people no need get the expensive fax machine or go out from home to make telegram to deliver message to their family and friends. It is waste money and waste time. They can deliver the message immediately by use MSN, Yahoo Messenger or e- buddy as free.