If anything can be taken away from the Intro to Mass Communications class it is that Mass Communications, in all forms of medium, are constantly changing and inevitably will always change. People’s needs and wants change with time and therefore what influences their life must be changing as well. New technology opens pathways for new medium while unfortunately leaving others in the dust.
In the past ten years mass communications have changed a great amount and they will only change more in the next ten years. While “older” medium such as paper books and newspapers will never entirely leave our society, “newer” medium such as the internet will soon be more used, if it isn’t already.
In ten years textbooks could be replaced by ebooks. Newspaper routes could be replaced by email alerts. No one can be sure what the future holds for mass communications but there WILL be a change, and evolution. All media is sure to turn toward the digital and electrionic fields. The internet and computers make everything faster and cheaper to keep up with the pace of society. Society won’t be slowing down anytime soon, therefore mass communications won’t either.
In ten years, I’ll be reading books to my children for sure, but I know that my kids will be turning to the internet far before I did. The lessons i learned on the chalkboard my kids will learn on their laptops. There is an obvious difference in technology familiarity between our grandparents and parents and our parents and us. There’s no denying that there will be a difference between us and our children.
