Digital Media and Technology

Digital media and technology is one of the fastest growing concepts in the world. It has changed the way we do just about everything. It has made a considerable transformation in how we communicate. From MTV to the Internet, digital media and technology has provided tool to allow expression that was once only available to one’s own mind. Audio, video, lightning, data, security, phones, and even heat and air conditioning id going (if not already) to digital format. Today, technology has provided tools to extract these images and thoughts to others. Digital media and technology is already an essential pert of other technologies. For example, it is used in computers, telephone systems, and compact discs. Everyday there is a new form of digital media emerging. These forms can be from web-cams, flat-screen TV’s, color screen cell phones, digital subscriber lines (DSL), virtual reality systems, holographic theaters, digital papers and palm pilots. The rapid developments in digital media technology have profound effects on human communication. Both personal and mass communication will change and adapt as a result of the emergence of new t

For example, there are interactive CD ROMs and educational computer games for children. These things include making programs, storing materials in archives, and getting the signal from video to home. " Another disadvantage is that the unregulated content (most visible in the diversity of the Internet) allows a platform for dangerous voices- terrorists, white supremacists, pornographers, etc. It seems to me that digital media and technology seem to be replacing people- bank assistants, shop assistants, and receptionists. Data, text, sound, images, animation, video and all of their combinations will be communicated in digital form. The negative impact of the electronic digital media age is that it takes away from the originality and imagination of the producer. The positive impact of the electronic digital age is that while it takes away from the originality of the idea, it makes it faster and saves time when producing the idea. With digital technology, hackers are able to tap into computer systems to receive information that may be confidential. One disadvantage is computers always seem to crash. One advantage is a wider choice of communication mediums such as CD"tms, minidisks, digital audio tape(DAT), cell phones, digital TV, digital video, digital radio, the Internet, Digitext, email, desktop publishing, digital editing, sampling, digital watches, and word processors. In movies and music videos, animators and directors draw their ideas on paper. A new infrastructure will be created, giving everyone access to digital services. New, electronic media will emerge and current media will have to accommodate and utilize the new tools in order to stay competitive. The electronic digital age has both a negative and positive impact on creativity.