Bloom Like a Lotus

Since we live in a society where we want everything now and we basically have the ability to access everything now, there is one other important detail that goes along with that. We also expect and assume that the information we access immediately is accurate. According to Harris (2015) “ The public should expect accurate online information, yet too often news stories, PR materials and other information are inaccurate.” We expect the content that we find online to always be accurate, but unfortunately that is not always the case. We have to spend time researching and comparing articles to verify accuracy. We also have to consider the actual source that it came from. Often times, even if it is a major company we assume it to be accurate, but unfortunately that is not always the case. According to Mitchell, Gottfried, and Barthel, (2016) “Only about two-in-ten Americans (22%) trust the information they get from local news organizations a lot, whether online or offline, and 18% s...

           As a society, our expectations have changed for how we consume the media. Social media has become a huge source for news consumption. Since social media as become so popular, all of the major news companies have their own social media pages.   According to Desjardins, (2016) “ For the most part, legacy print media stalwarts are dying a death by a thousand cuts.”        News companies are reverting to digital technology as their main source of communication. Twitter is one of those widely used platforms that numerous people get their news from. According to Barthel and Shearer (2015) “ One way to study Twitter is to look at tweets, which allows us to say, for instance, that  86% of the Twitter conversation using the hashtag #Ferguson  was, in fact, related to the events in Ferguson, Missouri, or to say that the Twitter conversation about Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras  was largely negative ...

      We live in a world where we want everything to happen now. We don’t want to wait for things. We don’t want to anticipate finding something out. We want the answers immediately. It appears as if we have technology to blame for that. According to Mening, (2016) “ In a recent study of 2,112 people,   Microsoft found that we've progressively suffered from a decline in attention span. The study found that we now have an average attention span of eight seconds, compared to an attention span of 12 seconds in the year 2000. More shocking, perhaps, is the findings of a similar study by Jampp that  found that  our attention span decreases by 88 percent every year. If this persists, it won't take long before the human race is barely able to focus.”      With the progression of technology, generally speaking, it is making society become more and more impatient. With the being said, we want everything ‘right now.’ We don’t wa...