{"id":6473,"date":"2015-11-12T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2015-11-12T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T06:44:08","slug":"lens-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/lens-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Lens of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lens<\/a>

Lens of change<\/p><\/div>\n

Asa Briggs and Peter Burke in their book A Social History of The Media from Gutenberg to the Internet, look at the progression of life through the lens of change. Change is not always any easy thing to grasp and at times it can be viewed as positive and negative at the same time. Their self declared vantage point was contained in the introduction. \u201cThis book will concentrate on changes in the media; in presenting them, an attempt will be made to avoid two dangers \u2013 that of asserting that everything has got worse and that of assuming that there have been continuous improvement. Either way, the implication that trends have moved in a single direction must be rejected, although writers trusting in it have often been eloquent and distinguished in their own fields\u201d (2)<\/p>\n

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The author\u2019s personal journey of reporting the changes in \u201cthe Media\u201d was to focus on major movements and changes in technology but also in the perception of the change as they were lived out. Steam and electricity would be a good example of this following of change.\u00a0\u00a0 How it affected society as it changed and forced movement away from the past and into the future. There was not an immediate jump to embrace the change but eventually the convenience of the change and the nature of the change became necessary.<\/p>\n

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Interesting in the preface it was revealed that the authors themselves, writing about the Internet and progressive change would \u201cavoid\u201d the use of these advancements.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cnote that the text was written partly in long hand and partly on a personal computer by two academics whose resistance to driving cars and using email is in no way incompatible with an interest in technology and social change in the present and the future as well as in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The vantage point of the author dictates the reporting of the subject at hand.\u00a0\u00a0 In reading there is a focus on the facts of the information and some opinion of the change is given but often it is simply from the viewpoint of a reporter reporting what has been seen or heard.\u00a0\u00a0 So they would be witnesses to the change but not necessary in favor or against the change. Almost like they were neutral to the change. Or maybe they were even slow to change. Or resistant to change.<\/p>\n

\"Videophone\"<\/a>

Videophone<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of things that are of interest to me were their reporting on two subjects that I find intriguing.\u00a0\u00a0 One was their observation concerning a \u201cfailed\u201d product, the videophone. \u201cThere was one feasible invention which did not take off- the videophone- much \u201cflashier\u201d than a voice- alone phone.\u201d (262) It is so fascinating that the ideas of man that were before there time when connected to today\u2019s technological advances it makes perfect sense.\u00a0\u00a0 I can talk to my family from around the world for free from this simple idea that didn\u2019t work at the time but now is a basic standard for the simplest cell phone. How the layering and building of the development of social media and communication media has progressed and become a standard for countries that at times would be considered third world but the simple \u201cvideophone\u201d is now a part of their world.<\/p>\n

\"Globalization\"<\/a>

Globalization<\/p><\/div>\n

The second would be the introduction of globalization. The quote that I take away from there is simply this. \u201cGlobalization might be inevitable but we don\u2019t have to like it\u201d The progression of the media and the progression of man as a whole are going to happen but how they are embraced or rejected or even tolerated dictates the happiness of those who are enduring the change.\u00a0\u00a0 Change is some thing that happens and we can either like it or endure it but it is going to happen.<\/p>\n

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It is refreshing to look factually at change not with a bias one way or the other. This is incredibly difficult and gives a different viewpoint to work from. Change will happen and will continue to happen. To determine if it is good or bad is still to be seen.<\/p>\n

Kevin<\/p>\n

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