Sunday, October 16, 2011
Communication in Global Affairs
The instantaneous ability to send a message or a video to the other side of the world is a luxury that is so easy to not think about. Today, this fast paced communication has evolved to You Tube, Facebook, Twitter, texting, email, and Skype. The world is so much more connected than ever before. Individuals from different nations can coordinate international protests with far greater ease, such as the worldwide 99% protest against major corporations, the stock market, and taxes. It has also led to such violent organization as that of the Arab Spring leading to revolutions in countries such as Yemen, Syria, Egypt, and most notably, Libya. Some nations, such as China, have tried to sensor this by only allowing access to the areas of the internet that they approve for the people of their country. This does not work fully, but I feel is very wrong. Communication is one of the things that sets humans apart from the rest of the world. Trying to sensor what they hear and say will only lead to ignorance, and a lack of understanding. This revolution of communication has united the people of the world more than any crisis or war ever could.
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Along with this, I was talking to my hair stylist the other day when I got my haircut, and she told me how she has this app on her phone where she can play like 20 games of scrabble at a time with other people who have the same app. She said that she has one game going on with someone from Australia and one from England and some from other countries. I think that is so cool, and so weird at the same time. That we can "interact" or talk to other people who we have never met face to face before, and who are around on the other side of the world!
ReplyDeleteYea, I think that its amazing. Being able to contact anyone around the world with just the touch of a few buttons, its incredible, and I feel like modern people often take this for granted. The whole system has become so common that we often loose sight of the importance of communication in our world. However, there is a downside to the growth of communication. As communication has become easier, I think that people are beginning to misuse it. They are choosing text and calling over talking face to face more and more often. We are losing real human interaction little by little, and thats not a good thing.
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