In new communication technology the main issues are many. Hacktivism has become a bigger and bigger issue, although the security is getting better. Governments have lost control over important secret files, people’s identities have been stolen and people’s privacy has been destroyed. So, privacy is also a big problem. Bullying and racism is an issue as well. One reason is that people have the opportunity to write anonymous letters and posts, and post pictures and movies that is illegal do to the law. Although the information may be incorrect, it spreads fast and does a lot of damage.
We can distinguish between old and new communication technology. The old ones may be radio, television, oral, written, graphical and smoke-signals. The new ones include more recent inventions, like the computer, internet, e-mail, mobile phones, social media and smart phones. The way we distinguish between them are: When a better alternative occur and it has the same or more functions than the present one, the alternative becomes a new while the present one becomes an old communication technology. An example is the computer, which currently is a new one, but is moving against getting old. It has lots of new competitors that replace it on several levels, like the ipad and the blackboard. The technology develops faster than before, which make the new ones older faster.
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