DIGITAL REVOLUTION

Digital revolution and social media

Digital revolution and social media

Introduction

In a technological sense, social media is all about integration and interoperability, the coming together of computing networks, information and communication technologies, and digital forms of information that are inherently adaptable, delivered via “intelligent” platforms, applications, and devices. The processes that facilitate media convergence are shaped by, while also shaping, social practices and cultural values; the ways that we produce and consume digital media to communicate science (as well as politics, sports, and so on) are changing. Where once people had opportunities to collate and filter scientific information via various “traditional” communication channels, now digital technologies are also playing an important role (Davies, 2007, 25).

Digital Revolution

This new cultural manifestation that arises as technological convergence of electronics, software and telecommunications infrastructure, resulted in what today is called: digital revolution. Electronics has provided the equipment development process information at a phenomenal pace. Then, development of software for these machines, which has grown in complexity as the support constituted by machines has evolved.

Software or software that is designed to improve user interactivity, the conception of it more simple for a user who eventually do not progress in their skills at the same speed as the rest of the system, allowing mass in the use of computers. It played an important role in the perspective of software vendors, to make it as attractive to the user and allow that user intuitive play in the development of performance and utility of the above applications.

On the other hand, the advances incorporated in data compression make the user get a better performance of their teams, helping to minimize the physical limitations of hardware. To this is added, the development of communications software, has made viable the use of networks from large university laboratories and military facilities to companies and households in each user connected to the Net Telecommunications have given above the interconnection capacity and in themselves provide a clear example of convergence that has been mentioned and technical development in this regard. It has allowed the co-existence and use of fibre cables copper, coaxial, fibre optic transmissions via satellite and radio shortwave (Davies, 2007, 20).

This process of co-existence is possible because the basis on which sit the sectors involved in the process of technological convergence, using digital technologies, employ a common hardware, such as microelectronics, to which is added to the high software component incorporated into their products, and intensive use of communications infrastructure that enable the relocation of the various elements of the information in different geographical contexts.

The summation is that the combination of these technologies, gives rise to a new conception of information processing, in which communications are opening new horizons and paradigms, which makes the digital revolution benefit and inevitable. This processing is done almost exclusively on local environments, so that the communication was an underappreciated role. Moreover, the central strategy of corporations, was the existence of a compatible information systems department centralized in a single ...