Today, during my one of classes, I was informed by a friend from America that Osama bin Laden had been killed by the CIA.
My friend lives in Los Angeles and I currently live in Sydney.
Our great technological capabilities connect people through wires and hard drives all over the world. It seems like an easy task to spread a message across dimensions yet for some reason convincing people that global warming has been a slow progression. I find that I often come across motivational videos such as "Coalition of the Willing" yet I always end up with the same thought: "I should do something, but I don't really have the motivation because I'm interested in doing other things."[1]
Although the internet serves as a library and a storage unit where you can find anything you want to look for, our generation does not use the internet as a place for change itself. Instead, the internet is place where our generation can interact with other relatives in other countries, share information and spark ideas that can promote change. Change occurs outside of the realm of the internet where the tangible interacts and creates reactions.
In order for change to occur though, there needs to be a common ground and a positive, general consensus for change which is achieved through people talking about events.
"A multitude can always veer off somewhere unexpected under the spell of some strange attractor."[2]
By placing a greater emphasis on the act of communicating and actually criticizing our opinions and ideas, unity and consensus will develop naturally and an increase in progress will be noticeable. The mediums we use to communicate rely on us to survive. They are just there to serve as slaves to our human needs.
We are the media after all.
[1] Knife Part and Rayner, Tim and Robson, Simon (2010) Coalition of the Willing <http://coalitionofthewilling.org.uk >
[2] Terranova,Tiziana (2004) ‘From Organisms to Multitudes’ In Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age London: Pluto: 101-106.
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