Don Topscott: Part three

As we discussed in class from today’s reading Growing up digital part three from tapscott there was lots of valuable points that were brought up into class discussion. Something that was very interesting to me that was being discoed in class was how new media has been effecting lots of things for example, politics is something that is growing and spreading quite quickly. New media is shaping political views as well as social behavior. During the 1990 was the time when there was only two main for politics to reach out to people and get their campaign to continue forward which was wither through broad casting or in order to have a campaign you would have to have people come to your dinner and they would have to pay 500-2500 for their own plate. This limited their ability to reach out and get more supports but since technologies have evolved so much now there are so many different ways to be able to reach out to whoever you like and this is also giving you the opportunity to go worldwide. For example, our president or any party democratic or republican have lot more types of media to reach out to whomever they would like in any part of the world. Facebook and twitter are a good example, now any party can post a status or even comment or share something on either Facebook or twitter and anyone can go and look up their information this is one big step allowing us to get to know what type of person our president really is. In the early 2000 people did not really care who our president really was, as long as he got the job done and know what he was doing that was all that mattered. These types of technologies allows us to tap into more people and have access to more information about what they really are up to. Now days it is more likely to see candidates on media to get more support and more people to vote for them while it is allowing the parties to reach a much broader audience. This was all starting to change during 2008, the new network era. This is a lot more efficient as it also allows us to communicate and discuss our ideas with whomever the person is your try to persuade. Also another thing that was a very valid point was that there is a need to get rid of the old system and bring in the new, “hire more young people”. There is a lot more happening today than there ever was back in the day because of the new Medias that have allowed us to get connected.