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The Trends of Digital Communication

The document discusses trends in digital communication and their impact on society. Three key trends are described: 1) Increased reliance on technology, especially among children who live much of their lives online 2) Emergence of social media like blogs, messaging, and microblogging that allow people to share information and connect online 3) Concerns about overdependence on technology and constant online connectivity disrupting personal life balance. The document argues that libraries must be aware of these trends and use tools like blogs to engage students and bring relevancy to the library.

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The Trends of Digital Communication

The document discusses trends in digital communication and their impact on society. Three key trends are described: 1) Increased reliance on technology, especially among children who live much of their lives online 2) Emergence of social media like blogs, messaging, and microblogging that allow people to share information and connect online 3) Concerns about overdependence on technology and constant online connectivity disrupting personal life balance. The document argues that libraries must be aware of these trends and use tools like blogs to engage students and bring relevancy to the library.

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THE TRENDS OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION

Every year, it appears that more and more people are relying on technology to live their lives. It

has wreaked havoc on society, families, workplaces, and personal life. Three emerging themes

are directly relevant to living in a technological society, and they overlap in some respects.

Because many children live their lives through the internet, these trends are particularly

significant to the school library. To reach such kids, the librarian must be aware of current

trends and applications, as well as be able to apply them in a library context. The librarian uses

them to make the library more relevant to students and to bring the library to them where they

are. Blogs, online journals, emailing, instant messaging, and micro-blogging are all examples of

social communication on the web. People use these apps to keep track of their life, educate

others about their activities, make recommendations, vent about a hobby, and a number of

other things. Almost every issue under the sun has some form of social communication.

“Exploring web 2.0 and libraries,” 2006, describes blogs as “a place online where people go to

write about their views, ideas, feelings, and so on in their own voice in order to share it with the

masses.” Someone can respond to the writer on a blog by leaving a comment, which the

blogger can either publish or delete. A blog could be used in education or at a library to share

thoughts on a topic, to recommend books, to share thoughts on a book, to share news about

upcoming events, to share information about a prior event. It’s a place where you can talk

about everything you want. It might turn into a virtual book club. Participation in the blog

should be encouraged. “Technology trends for a 2.0 world,” 2007, states that the more involved

students are, the more likely they are to care about the library. Blogger.com, edublogger.com,

and blogsopt.com are among the most popular blog sites (Naslund & Guistini, 2008).
Microblogging is a type of social media that allows people to express themselves quickly. The

development of social interchange around the world has been revolutionized by the advent of

digital communication. Communication technologies like smart phones and laptops make it

easier to disseminate information on the Internet. While constant connectivity allows users to

get rapid news from local to global networks, the “Evertime” communication model’s excess of

information supports the phenomena of “Pushback,” or social media resistance. Netizens are

concerned about the over-reliance on technology to manage time and energy, as well as the

online image and relationships that are formed to provide emotional fulfillment. In order to

maintain social-personal life balance, this essay will first look at ways for rejecting internet

connectedness in the context of behavioural adaptation and social agreement. Emerged. The

importance of social media is validated by Castells (2008) using the public sphere model. He

claims that reactive communications like “likes” and “comments” have influenced the growth of

people’s reputation and popularity. The Child Mind Institute (2016) opined that the “digital

natives” of the current era are addicted to social media, spending an average of more than 11

hours per day in front of a screen in search of a sense of belonging and connectedness, in which

one’s personal life has been profoundly impacted.

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