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ARTICLE 5 - Can you recognise a change in pattern of media use (eg. Blurring the lines between works, leisure, family commitments?)

            The use of media really has change the lifestyle in our daily life. The more we becoming a modern society, the more we depend on the technology especially technology in media. Media technology has become fundamental tools in the relationship of work and family. Media can be said as tools that help us in stored information or tools to deliver the data or information. To recognize this changing pattern of media use in our daily life activities, we really need to understand how it is actually a process of shift from modernity to postmodernity. According to Lister, Dovey, Giddings and Kelly (2009), this new media technology could contribute to increase productivity and educational opportunity and open up different creative and communicative horizons. It has shape our life where we always ‘live’ in the connected world.             Modern media technology has made us ...

ARTICLE 2 - The Advantages and Disadvantages of Computer Mediated Communication

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BLOGGING TASK 2 After watching the video, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of CMC based on Walther's SIP: Is Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) GOOD or BAD? After watching Season 6 Episode 16 of  Modern Family  titled ‘ Connection Lost ’, the  TMP team  were amazed and impressed by how much technology; especially  CMC  has become a part of our everyday lives! In this article, we will discuss about the  advantages  and  disadvantages  of  CMC  which was used as means of daily communication by the Dunphy family. Joseph Walther  developed a theory known as  Social Information Processing (SIP) .  SIP  as compared to previous theories on  CMC  (as discussed in Entry 1), argued that  CMC  can build intimacy and has the same depth as F2F communication even for cross-cultural communication, it’s only weakness is a slower rate of transfer (Jarvenpaa & Leidner,...

ARTICLE 1 - Experiences of Computer-Mediated Communication

1.0 Introduction According to (Amado Cordova et al , 2013), Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) consists of a variety of technologies and techniques that use online discussion boards, chat rooms and e-mails. This type of technique does not involve real-time communication or visual communication. That means, the CMC is any form of communication between two or more individuals who interact and influence each other to use this type of social software for communication via separate computers through the Internet or network connection. Hence, today is a technology and science era that has many forms of social software or social media created to help people easily communicate or do any kind of work better and faster. For example, the type of social software or social media that is really high percentage for people using it is Skype, Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Instagram and others. In Malaysia, referring to (Mahat, 2017) , statistics from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia ...

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