What have been some of the effects of the new media on society?

Since the technology has been developed such as internet, the new media replace the old media rapidly. New media provide people new way to have a communication and collaboration each other. It has been effected our society positively and negatively in many ways.

Fact
- New media provide people a new way to access people by ucc, email and text message.
- New media provide people a new way to do an advertisement by email, banner, ucc video clip.
- New media provide people a new way to exchange and share a information
- New media create new business model, such as youtube.com, amazon.com, online game industry
- New media provide webbased educational environment. by using blog or wiki, Professors and students are able to have a communication.
- What I am doing is the part of the new media effect that I post my assignment on my blog

Positive Effect
- New Media provide people faster way to have a communication, such as email, text message and messengers.
- With new media, people are able to communication anywhere by laptop, pda and mobile.
- People are able to easy to gather a wide and variety information via internet.
- People are able to have collaboration the work via web based technology which is Wiki
- The social networking sites make people having a new connection with people via blogs and social networking sites.
- People are able to communicate not only from local people but also people from all over the world.
- People are able to express themselves by ucc.
- Change the life style. It has been changed the shopping habit. People are able to gather more information about products and purchase the product via online shopping sites.
- Change the lifestyle. People is no longer need to be at home to see the favorite TV show, people are able to watch it whenever they want via web based broadcasting

Negative Effect
- Violation of a privacy, such as selling personal information
- Weak protection of copywriter the digital contents. People are easy to copy and share the digital contents by p2p, messengers, web pages and CD/DVD.
- Weak protection from cyber stucking

When new technology innovated, it always has a positive and negative effect. We are at the transition period that the new media replaced old media. While New Media provide people many positive effects and it help to improve high quality of life, it also give us the assignment.