The ways to get news

As the generations keep changing, the way of getting news also gets changed. Many decades ago, people could hear news only from other people after many days of the actual incident happened, or even after it was solved. Later, the development of society and technology brought us convenient ways of getting information such as printed newspaper, radio, etc. However, nowadays those are already considered as old ways of getting news. People, especially young adults, get their news from Internet every single minute. I have noticed that most of people in our class and university use their smartphones to check newest news by using different kinds of apps. We do not even need to go to their websites to check once we subscribe it to emails or apps because the news will be simply “delivered” to us. I found it interesting that many classmates mentioned social networking system as one of the sources that they have, because I never thought of Facebook or Twitter as a source of news. But soon I understood because, for example from last weekend, people were able to know what was happening during the Super Bowl even though they were not watching.

I assume that Carr and Hedges would not be happy with this phenomenon because they think the SNS is constantly decreasing civic literacy. They believe that the more time we spend on Internet, the more stupid we are becoming. However, as a blogger, Sullivan would see this more optimistically because the Internet makes people to spend more time on Internet reading articles or any other words, and interact with others. There are more opportunities opened for people to participate in literacy.