Mark Poster's Postmodern Virtualities talks about the forms of communication in both the past and the present. Previously, communication was often strictly limited to sender-receiver formatting. However, in today's age and with the evolution of technology and how that technology is mandated, we have moved beyond that limiting format into a nearly endless cycle of feedback. In Grunig's Excellence Theory, there exists a public relations model called the Two-Way Symmetrical Model of Communication. This model concludes that there exists a relationship between the communicating parties, that the communication is democratic.
Communication has also become nearly universal. I studied abroad in Shanghai recently and I'm able to still talk to the friends that I made there, whether they're in Singapore, California, Boston, or India. At the same time, however, the more accessible communication becomes, the more limited and controlled governments make it. Communication and media becomes political. In China, censorship is law. Sites like Google, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are blocked. Instead, they use government controlled applications, like WeChat, Taobao, and AliPay. As Poster writes, we cannot expect technology to truly become universal, because there will always be those who wish to control it.
Communication has also become nearly universal. I studied abroad in Shanghai recently and I'm able to still talk to the friends that I made there, whether they're in Singapore, California, Boston, or India. At the same time, however, the more accessible communication becomes, the more limited and controlled governments make it. Communication and media becomes political. In China, censorship is law. Sites like Google, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are blocked. Instead, they use government controlled applications, like WeChat, Taobao, and AliPay. As Poster writes, we cannot expect technology to truly become universal, because there will always be those who wish to control it.
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