Mobile phone has become a necessary for every people to stay connect with
other people. Last time, people use mobile phone to call and SMS. But after the
smart phone have invent, people make it as multipurpose device, for instance
music player, camera, game player, and etc. Moreover, with the cheaper cost of
the mobile data service, people now use the chatting application more
frequently since mobile data can use anywhere and anytime. Thus people now are
constantly online with their mobile data or Wi-Fi with “always on” situation .
Which mean people stay online even when they are outing or traveling so that
they can always check the update of status on the smart phone.
The change of Communication in several level
When new media still not commonly
use, people only communicate in small group yet most of them are face-to-face
communication, hence people are hard to interact with each other. But after new
media comes in, it changes the way of people communicate. According to Bala
(2014), the new media has bring lots of impact on various communication level. In
group communication, people can interact regularly in 10-20 people even in
hundred people in a group and the information are shared virally. Bala (2014)
also mention the impact of new media towards public communication, politician
used the internet to connect young voter to attract their vote and this way are
very successful. Last but not least, there are also impact on the mass
communication. The mainstream TV and radio channels, newspaper now will
checking social networking site to get the latest news update, this is the
fastest way to get the news. Besides, new media provide the platform for
journalist to write their article and blog without depend on the editor or
publisher, they can write more freely and gain more revenue than the past.
People use web search more frequently
In the past, people gain the
information they need by going library or using non-web search. But now a days,
most of the people has taken less time to gain their information by using web
search. In fact, according to a research, they found that web search are
unsurprisingly faster than non-web search. This causes many people makes use
web searching for information as an everyday activity (Chen, Jeon, & Kim,
2013). According to Purcell, Brenner, and Rainie (2012), there are total 91% of
the internet activities are using a search engine and the highest rate of
people who search for information are university student due to they use to
search for their academic information. Thus we can see that, the invention of
new media causes people change their information searching method from non-web
searching to web-searching, this causes the information flow became very fast.
How one issue are facilitated and implicated by mobile media
Through mobile media there are many issue
that can be reach easily at any time and place that have network line. Many
event and issue that happen around the world can be known by the person from
the other side of the world in just a few second and a click. For example when
a tragedy MH 370 happen that cause the shock to the world, people furiously
stated to search latest information about that tragedy and one of the medium
that they use to search the information are mobile media.
By using
mobile media, people especially the victim family can search the latest news
about the tragedy facilitated. Information such as how the family are, what
really happen to the flight and other can be reach by mobile media. Although
that information cant be find until today, the use a mobile media very helpful
in this tragedy. People use the mobile media such as Facebook, Twitter, news
apps like BBC and other to get the information about the issue. by getting the
information, and the news spread many news about the sympathy message from other
country and helping hand to help reach rapidly.
The use of
mobile media also implicated the search of the flight MH 370. It is because
when the news is spreading people are trying to help. There are many rumors
about the flight can be heard. Some said their saw the flight and other tells
the different story. The rumors can
disturb the investigation, but it also can help when the information are
right such as when their found the the part of the flight in the Reunion
Island.
The advantage of mobile
media in the issue
There are many advantage of using mobile media nowdays. The
event and issue of MH 370 are the example how mobile media very helpful as a
tools to get information in just a few second. Getting such a fast information
are important so that the family of the victim of flight MH 370 can know the
latest news about the flight where ever there are. The advantage of mobile
media in this issue also can be look when people around the world show their
sympathy through their social media.
The disadvantage of the mobile media in the issue
Although the information update
are very fast and instant, the information are not necessary accurate. This is
because everyone can share and post the information and causes the information
overload. The information overload can hence cause confuse of which information
are truth and which are not rumour. In case, the fake news about MH 370 has
found causes many people believe and get fooled by the news (Divakaran, 2016).
Many people were believed it without verify the reliability until the news has
been prove that it is fake. Hence it is very important to verify the news
before share in public.
References
Bala, K. (2014). Social media
and changing communication patterns.
Global Media Journal-Indian Edition, 5(1), 1-6.
Divakaran, P. (2016, February
12). Fake report on MH 370 pilot in Taiwan fools some people. The Star online. Retrived from http://www.thestar.com.my
Purcell, K., Brenner, J., &
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