DC2533 | Use of Digital Media Technology in Daily Life

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In our everyday life, everyone uses the digital media technologies in their free time.
The programme in the digital media technology focuses on enabling the technologies for the
systems of digital media that consist of technologies in order to examine media, generation of
interactive media, coding and processing, optimise the wireless and the wired transfer and
then distributing the 3D contents those are digital. The digital media technologies those are
used in the daily lives by the people include television, WhatApp, Netflix, Snapchat and
many such social media platforms those are used every day (Selwyn & Stirling, 2016). The
people heavily use the digital media and they are becoming an addiction for the people. The
maximized utilisation of digital media is varying the life of people and the means by which
the people collaborate and connect in the framework of society at the civil society and at
work. Much of this influence of this utilization is beneficial to the society and the individuals.
These are enabling unparalleled intensity of interaction those are social and communication
transversely the context of time, place and society (Hoge, Bickham & Cantor, 2017).
However, not all impacts of the maximized utilization of media those are digital are good.
There are researches that have indicated that when people extremely utilise digital media it
can harmfully affect their growth in terms of behaviour and their physical and mental health.
Connectivity those are hyperactive, maximized digital connection of things and people has
probability to modify the outline of interaction those are social, as the interaction those are
face-to-face can be hanged into online interaction (Dobson, Robards & Carah, 2018). In
addition to this, the enablement of greater technology can be a threat to the job security,
which is considered as a skill in the urbanized world.
The effect of the digital technology that can be negative or positive on an individual
depends on the place where they live. A survey demonstrated that about one-quarter of

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people from the country of USA and Germany believe that digital media has upgraded the
excellence of whole life (Voorveld et al.,2018). In contrast to this, about two third of the
people in China and Brazil believe this. The people in the Country of South Africa are
divided on this question.
Nevertheless, in spite of considering that the digital media has upgraded their life, a high
proportion of people in China and Brazil believe that they should reduce the utilisation of
digital media.
The extreme utilisation of social media also has bad effects on the people. The
negative effects of people include:
Depression of anxiety: Spending too much time on the social media can have a great effect
on mood (Siddiqui & Singh, 2016). The users those are chronic have mental health those are
poor and consists of indications of depression and anxiety.
Cyber bullying: Before social media, bullying was done face to face. Social media makes it
very easy to meet new people and then make friends with them. However, it also enables
them to bully other people with very little effort (Kennedy, 2019). The people who bully
people can utilise the anonymity that are provided by the social media to gain trust of people
and then can utilise the social network to terrorize them in form of their peers.
Fear of missing out: The fear of missing out is a kind of occurrence that is natural along with
the social media. It is a kind of nervousness that the people obtain when they are afraid of
missing the knowledge those are positive.
Unrealistic expectations: most of the people on the social media form expectations those are
unrealistic of friendships and life in the minds of people. Most of the sites of social media
have a lack of authenticity online. Some of the people use SnapChat in order to share their