1501ART - Tutorial Task One Summary

Communication technologies mingle in everyday life and culture. Focusing mainly on the internet, communication technologies have more recently been impacting the cultural elements in relation to everyday life. Things that are taken for granted such as mobile phones, and sms texting, instant messengers, and even blogging allow humans to expand their communication skills beyond their own physical boundaries. Communication to family and friends overseas for example, can be taken too easily for granted with a simple click of an enter key on the keyboard or hitting send on a mobile phone. These new forms of communication technologies have rapidly evolved over the past 6 years, and are set to make further advances in the way of communication.

In a fast paced world, so many people have access to the internet in their own homes, or failing that, a mobile phone or paging device. The internet has become as useful as a means of communication. Instant messaging has always been popular, including such programs as AOL and msn instant messenger. More so, blogging has become popular. Short for Web logging, "blogging" is where a person or group of people form a personal website where entries can be made in a journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Bloggers are in control of their blogs, therefore they are able to post about any topics they desire. Usually a personal blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
Blogging can become an unreliable source of information, due to the fact that anyone connected to the internet can create a blog and add data for someone else to read. Political Blogs can be common sources for unreliable and bias data and information, usually containing personal opinions of whoever wrote the blog entries. Questions to ask before relying on blog information should include, who wrote the blog?, who runs and pays for the site?, what is the sites and blogs purpose and where does the information come from? etc. These questions will help determine weather a blog can be relied on for an accurate source of information and data.

In conclusion, it is clear that web logging is becoming ever popular, and allows people to expand on their own physical boundaries of communication, all with a simple click of a mouse.