Current Research on Media Rituals and Contemporary Technologies

Applications and current research (related to modern media) analyze four contemporary articles that reflect current research on media rituals and modern technology. The authors' studies (Anderson, Bilic, Csaszi, and Maj) have worked on spreading the notion of media rituals and their applications, especially in the form of numbers and the Internet. By critically analyzing the content of these authors' papers, this will further explain the importance of media rituals for everyday life.

Modern media technologies, including the Internet, websites, and various social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.) make it easy to quickly create and share messages created by users and use other handheld devices You can share instant messages with users of (Sundar and Limperos 2013). In summary, these technologies are different from conventional quality. The difference between modern social media technology and traditional mass media is interaction (Eveland 2003). Users are mostly sources and recipients. Second, by providing the user of digital communication technology with the ability to shape, customize, and guide online dialogues, modern media transforms previous passive mass media receivers into sophisticated communicators, autonomous , Reinforced self-efficacy and personal agents. 2013)

Depending on how society uses modern technology, it will decide whether the technology is good for harm. Modern techniques widely used such as the Internet and television are basically not bad. The problem is that current media applications are interfering with progress. - It is said that we are in the era of digital revolution now. You can become "friends" and "oppose" with people who have never met in social networking. You can chat with monkeys online for 30 minutes, but you do not know the real identity of others.

I have studied several new media technologies on the technical determinism that helps or hinders our understanding of modern mass media. These media technologies include the Internet and digital television. Various commentators thought that it would change our way when the Internet was in its early stages. For example, reading a newspaper is no longer the same. Some people recommend logging on to download news online without going to a shop to buy daily newspapers. However, so far it was not so. The number of newspaper publications has not decreased so much, but the issue volume of daily newspapers has increased slightly.