Social Networking Impact on Traditional Information Distribution

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UPDATED MARCH 2022

SYLLABUS 

  • The impact of social networking technologies on traditional methods of information pubilication and distribution, including use of mobile devices  11 ATAR, 12 GEN

 
Traditional methods of information publication and distribution

Traditional methods of communicating to family and friends was usually by the following methods.
    •    Face to Face
    •    By telephone
    •    Writing a Letter
    •    Telegram.


Face to face meant you would need to walk or drive to their house in order to communicate with them.
By telephone was another method for communicating. This has been changed to include video calls as an option.
Written letters were sent through the postal system and delivered to them.
A telegram was used for urgent communication. To send a telegram you would take your written message to the post office and they would send it via ‘electric telegraph’ to another post office where it was decoded and hand delivered to the correct house. They were usually very short as they charged by the word. 

Impacts

The impact of social networking on these traditional methods has been significant.
    •    Face to face has now changed to include long distance face to face communications and uses smartphone video calls.
    •    Telephone is still available but has been expanded to include conference calls with many users in the same conversation, if that is desired.
    •    Letter writing has almost been replace by smartphone text message, instant messaging and emails.
    •    Telegrams have certainly been replaced by text messaging.

Impacts on Information, publication and distribution

    •    Before instant messaging and emails most communications were paper based.
    •    These paper based industries have become less important in our society for many.
    •    Paper based industries have needed to adapt to survive in the business world.
    •    This has affected workers in these industries in unemployment, retraining and the like.
    •    It has also affected the transport industry which no longer need to transport the large quantities of paper based publications.
 

 FOR YOU TO DO
    1    Describe how information was created and distirbuted before the internet.
    2    Describe how social networking changed traditional methods of publication and distribution.