Culture and Technology in Modern Media

Technology is a huge part of society today including the workplace. Everything about the workplace is evolved around technology from the hiring process to the job title. Before technology advanced you went through the following process: submitting a paper resume, face to face interview, and most job titles only require the usage of a telephone. The process has made quite a few changes. For example, we have social sites (Linkedin, Indeed, Snagjob and etc) that require you to upload a resume which matches you to job hiring. In some cases a skype interview is available and most of your job is surrounded around technology. Such as computers, telephones, email, instant messaging and skype. Recently, a new system called Slack has been adopted into the workplace. "workplace communication tools that also is on the decline. Now, as more and more companies adopt platforms like Slack, physical communication within the office is depleting ." (Keijzer, 2018). Adopting another communica...

Social media has changed the way we communicate, which caused an effect on our communication skills. The social media users has continued to increase over the years with a steady rise. Social media is a great form of non-verbal communication and self expression. Everyone has their own social site that is frequently used such as I am in favorite of Facebook. Over all social media sites because it allows to have have self-expression on my page even without posting a status. Such as likes, shares and even status, it can give you a insight on someone personality. However, social media is creating a social barrier for face to face communication. For example, " Approximately 93 percent of communication today is already nonverbal, and thus requires an additional means of helping people understand each other (such as smileys or emojis), since text does not convey the total palette of intonations or facial expressions.(Rampages, 2017). Which is the biggest issue in miscommunication. For...