Social Media Opinion

I love the way technology has advanced in a short period of time and the way it allows the world to do anything. In the power point we learned about the transmission model which tells us how communication works in different types of arenas like interpersonal communication, small group, mass media and social media. Before social media, there was only one sender (TV, radio, newspaper, speaker) of a message and the audience which can be from one person to the whole world. The job was simple, the sender sends content through different types of mediums and the receiver gets the message, decodes it and send feedback if possible. Now with social media is more participatory because now anyone can be a creator of content and receive information at the same time. Social media has given us the tools to create whatever we want and show it to the world without the need of a big media company.