The Future of Media – Final Exam We’ve been looking at convergence-technological, cultural, and economic- and its influence on media. We’ve looked the at the history of mass media- print, radio, and...

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Title: The Future of Media – Final Exam
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Contents
Introduction    3
Why the Internet should be regulated    3
Call for Internet regulation by Senator Elizabeth Warren    4
The Future of the New Media    6
More privacy and security:    6
Less personal content, but more memes:    6
Mobile-focused experiences:    6
More visuals:    6
Future of “Legacy” Media    7
Conclusion    7
Works Cited    8
Introduction
In the history of this planet, we are living through an exciting time. Innovation is the name of the game in this time of exploration and discernment. When it comes to the media, this famous saying that "the only thing that remains constant today is change" could hardly be accurate. Because data is the answer to everything today, the press is no less important for affecting almost all people's lives. The much-discussed powers of transformation and diversion drive this transition or more accurately, this revolution in the press.
Why the Internet should be regulated
The politically correct era, in which cyber-libertarians believed that neither national nor international government agencies could play a role in cyberspace regulation, was gone forever. We have now reached the high-water mark of the official (and rather bizarre) belief that government is inappropriate to control the Internet. As supported by Kurbalija, the irreversible dissolution of the anti-governmental organization is not induced by intervention by politicians who are involved in regulating the Internet. It is because the Internet is just too popular for any other culture and economy to be viewed.
Over the next few years, the Internet, primarily for the purchasing of hardware, software and services and, more significantly, with the Internet becoming an essential online commerce tool will continue to generate considerable money. When politicians continue to believe in non-discrimination values, universal access, fair and open competition, intellectual property (Pavlik and McIntosh).
It seems that Internet regulation violates certain principles of freedom, such as freedom of expression. Well, if you have a high court that equates pornography ludicrously with freedom of speech it is an understandable, but misplaced position. The state used to protect the fundamental unit of society, the family. TV and films have been regulated for content and with good reason without this supervision. As argued by Yoo, people forget that freedom demands responsible behavior: we equate freedom with license, assuming that freedom means that you can do whatever you want.
One of the government's fundamental aims is to regulate society's behavior to guarantee domestic order, which is why we have laws. The internet is a medium that affects all social levels and when that channel encompasses barbarism, culture will inevitably represent that, if one knows what to look for (think of an elephant in the living room). There is more information available than we did before the Internet in human history but we have never done anything constructive with all this knowledge and are more...