Week 1 - Response to Content

The main issues between New Communication Technologies are the most obvious and advertised. Instances such as cyber bullying and hacking are probably the two biggest issues in New Communication Technologies. A perfect example of this is Julian Assange and the still unfolding 'WikiLeaks' saga. New Communication Technologies are the only thing that made it Possible for Assange to gain access to and publish Government documents online.

We can distinguish between old and new communication technologies in multiple ways. The most obvious being the time of which a certain form of technology becomes availible to the public. For example; mobile phones became availible for the first time to the public in the 1980s. These phones were large and had to be transported in suitcases. On the other end of the scale, we have 'Smartphones'. Phones like iphones and blackberrys fall into the group of a smart phone. They are relatively new and their availibility and affordability has boomed since 2009.
This makes the old mobile phones a form of old communication technology and the new 'smartphones' a form a new communication technology.

For new communication technology to become an old communication technology, it must be replaced by something more effecient, easier to use, and serve a greater purpose. As proven with the evolution of mobile phones.