Ever feel anxious and helpless without your mobile phone? You are not alone: millions of consumers of entertainment, information and digital media have found their lives transformed by the power at their fingertips.
According to recent World Economic Forum research, about 50% of the world population believe that increased use of digital media is improving human life. From how people work to social networking, digital media is integrated into much of what people do, improving productivity and facilitating how people interact and communicate.
Much of the impact of the use of social media is beneficial to both society and individuals. It is allowing unprecedented levels of social interaction, communication and communication building across boundaries of place, time and social context. With the increase in the use of digital media, new learning methods are possible.
Digital media has given the common person the power to interact with politics on a different level. Nowadays, politicians have to be careful with what they say or do as it can spread fast around the internet.
Digital media has also made everything people do feel like a big marketplace. A person in Madrid can create content for a website in Chicago fairly easily. A person in Tokyo can design the graphics for a client in London, and they don’t have to move. In a way, digital media has made the world come together.
References
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/how-digital-media-use-is-changing-our-lives/