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Negative Impact of Modern Communication Tools
Negative Impact of Modern Communication Tools
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Negative Impact Of Modern Communication Tools
SUBMITTED TO
Dr. Ferdous
SUBMITTED BY
Md. Mehedee Hasan
ID. 16232003
MBA 2016
30 April 2016
Dr. Ferdous
Adjunct Faculty of Business Studies
Bangladesh University of Professionals
Dear sir,
I am pleased to inform you that I have completed the term paper as per your instruction,
on the theme which covers five basic tools of modern communication.
We would like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to work on this topic as it has
helped us to knowledge about negative impact of modern communication tools .
However, we have tried our best to complete the paper with relevant and to-the-point
information. But for obvious reasons it is very likely that the paper may have some
unintentional mistakes & lacking and may also contain some wrong assumptions. We are
looking forward to your kind suggestion in this regard.
We will be glad to answer any kind of question about any matter relating to this paper
and will be pleased to provide further clarification if necessary.
Yours sincerely,
ID: 16232003
Finally I have finished my first term paper for the first semester. First of all, all thanks
goes to the Almighty, because its only his blessings which enable me to do everything
that is good and also help refrain me from every evil deed. So, my deepest gratitude to
the Almighty for giving us the strength and the composure to finish the task within the
due time.
Next, our sincere gratitude goes to our honorable teacher Mr. Ferdous, Adjunct Faculty of
Business studies, Bangladesh University Professionals (BUP). It was a challenging task to
gather correct data from internet. From the huge amount of data I collect all relevant
data. It is not so easy task because I have to read our all data then collect. If I start work
earlier it could be more easy. Whatever, I wish I would learn from this mistake and
prepare ourselves for the future.
Finally a silent stream of gratitude is for my most adorned parents and friends, whose
blessings are always with me in this windy world. We beg pardon to my teacher for our
unintentional error, if any.
Todays youth have unprecedented access to modern technology and use them in
expected and unexpected ways. Youth spend many hours a day using the
technology, and the vast majority of them have access to Internet, cell phones,
smart phone, video games and many more. This chapter provides an overview of the
impact of modern technology on personal, educational, economical, social and cultural
aspect. Over and unconsciously use of these technology people face some impact. Some
impact are short term and some effects are long terms. Recommendations were made
for user ways to increase the benefits and reduce the harm that technology can
have for adolescents.
01 Introduction 01-02
1.1 Origin of the report 02
1.2 Background of the report 02
1.3 Objective of the report 02
1.4 Methodology 02
1.5 Limitations 02
02 Overview of Communication 03-06
History of Communication 04
03 About Modern Communication Tools 07-11
3.1 Computer 08
3.2 Smartphone 09
3.3 Internet 09
3.4 Social Media 10
3.5 Television 11
04 Negative Impact of Modern Communication Tools 12-22
4.1 Negative impact of Computer 13
4.2 Negative impact of Smartphone 14
4.3 Negative impact of Internet 16
4.4 Negative impact of Social Media 18
4.5 Negative impact of Television 20
05 Conclusion & Recommendation 23-25
Conclusion 24
Recommendation 25
06 Reference 26-27
Modern technology has experienced vast expansion in recent years, leading to its
extensive use by people from all generations. For a generation of young people,
technology has assumed a substantial stake in their social and educational lives. The
vast majority of adolescents have access to computers, the Internet, cell phones, video
games, Social media and many other forms of modern technology. With the increased
use of modern technology adolescents lives has fall into dinger. They face many health
and social and cultural problems. Proper use of modern technology in communication
people can reduce problem largely. So we should follow the recommendation rid of these
problem.
The objective of the report is to find out some impact of modern communication tools
and recommended about the tools. To full fill these objective first describe the use of
tools and then sequentially describe impact and then recommendation. So that we can
understand the bad impact of these tools and know how to rid of these problems.
1.4 Methodology
1.5. Limitations
To find out the negative impact of modern communication is not a easy job. It is very
difficult and time consuming. I am full time students of MBA, where I have course load
for 5 or 6 courses each semester. The university schedule is designed in such a way it is
hard to manage enough time to find out the negative impact of modern communication.
All Collected data may not be hundred percent accurate because I can not justify. So,
time and correct source are the main limitation of this research.
The history of communication began with man communicating with others like him, using
oral communication that was understandable to the listener. Hand signs and body
language played important roles while our ancestors communicated with one another.
Man then developed a sense of what surrounded him, by trying to depict all that he saw
and experienced, using mud and sharpened tools, to draw and carve on walls. Let's take
a look at how communication progressed over the years.
2.10 Typewriter
While many believe that William Austin Burt was the first to invent
the typewriter (called the typographer), it was Italian inventor
Pellegrino Turri who invented the first of its kind - including carbon
paper as ink for the typewriter - for the blind. William was the first
to patent the invention, in spite of Turri's earlier make.
Nonetheless, the typographer didn't have a chance to make an
appearance commercially, because no one was willing to patent it.
2.11 Telephone
Computer
Smartphone
Internet
Social Media
Television
3.1 Computer:
A computer is an electronic device that manipulates information, or data. It has the ability to
store, retrieve, and process data. You probably already know that you can use a computer to type
documents, send email, play games, and browse the Web. You can also use it to edit or create
spreadsheets, presentations, and even videos.
Using computer
For Communication
Education
Collect and Provide Information
For Research and Development
Field of Medical
For Entertainment
A cellular phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a
touch screen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running
downloaded applications.
Phones used to be all about making calls, but now your mobile can do so much more.
The range of new touchscreen Smartphone allows you to access the internet, use social
media, get live news updates, play music and video, and much more. They almost
universally use touchscreens for control, however, which can be a challenge for people
new to the technology.
Using Smartphone
For Messaging
To Listening Music
To Listening Radio
Searching the Web
For Phone Call
For Social Media
Giving and receiving Personal E-mail
Play game
Watch live television
Watching News
3.3 .Internet:
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the
Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link billions of devices worldwide.
The popular name for the Internet is the information superhighway. Whether you want to
find the latest financial news, browse through library catalogs, exchange information with
colleagues, or join in a lively political debate, the Internet is the tool that will take you
beyond telephones, faxes, and isolated computers to a burgeoning networked
information frontier.
Using Internet
For Communication
Research
For Education
Doing Financial Transaction
For Real Time Updates
Sharing Information
Using multimedia
Sharing multimedia
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3.4.Social Media:
Social media originated as strictly a personal tool that people used to interact with
friends and family but were later adopted by businesses that wanted to take advantage
of a popular new communication method to reach out to customers.
Youtube
Skype
Viber
a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used
to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education.
Television is one of our worlds most important media of mass communication. It shows
us information programs, like the news, documentaries, and sports events. We can
watch films, listen to interviews and hear the sounds of events that happen far away.
Television teaches us about countries and cultures and we can enjoy entertainment, like
series, comedies, game shows or sitcoms.
Using Television
Entertainment
Passing time
News and Information
Education
Communication
Products advertisement and promotion
Modern communication tools has taken a revolutionary change in our society in the field
of personal, social, financial and economical situation. Its also some negative impact
that affects in our personals and social life.
Though computer is a more beneficial but it has some negative impacts. Negative
impacts are-
Learning new computer skills and programs can put stress on workers, especially older
or less-educated workers. In addition to this, employees are constantly connected to co-
workers, clients, vendors and business networks throughout the workday. Because
interactions can happen instantaneously, often with a desire for instant responses, this
can cause additional stress in the workplace.
4.1.2 Distractions
According to CNET News, office workers are interrupted approximately every three
minutes by emails, instant messages, phone calls or other distractions. This causes
overall lower productivity as it takes eight minutes for the brain to achieve a creative
state. Aside from legitimate work-based interruptions, employers are also competing
against technology-driven distractions such as social media, online games, news feeds
and even pornography.
Aside from the widely discussed vision and musculoskeletal problems, according to
Communications Workers of America, there is an increased rate of heart-related disease
in computer-based offices due to the intense pressure of having work constantly
monitored via computer.
Many computers have CRT, or Cathode Ray Tube, monitors that give off X-ray radiation
that can affect your health. Being exposed to computer radiation can cause cancer,
tumors, miscarriage and birth defects, headaches and insomnia. The FDA requires that a
4.1.5 Addiction
Computers also give you access to a wide variety of information and entertainment.
People who use computers for this reason, which develop a computer addiction. This
may cause a person to become addicted to online activities like reading articles and
researching for fun, playing online games, visiting chat rooms, gambling or even
pornography or cybersex. This can cause the person to lie about their online habits and
activities, neglect family and social events and academic failure. Strong addiction may
require sufferers to seek professional therapy.
Stored documents or important documents i.g account number, password etc. can be
stolen by hack or free access of computer.
After people lose empathy and are accustomed to violence, it becomes the social norm.
Teenage girls are videoing themselves violently beating another girl; the number of
school shootings are rising and videos of people attacking homeless people are a few
examples of violent behavior caused by media.
Smartphone has been revolutionary changing in our society but it has some problems.
Using headphones and ear buds can cause people to lose their hearing over time.
Likewise, straining your eyes looking at phone screens can cause people to need glasses
much earlier in life.
Over use of mobile phone the mobile phones radiation can injure our brain that create
brain cancer.
4.2.3 Disconnect
Creating a lasting bond with other people requires face-to-face interaction. The more we
isolate ourselves with technology the fewer bonds we will form. People are expected to
do more work at home which takes away time they would be spending with their families.
Also, younger people prefer communicating online versus face-to-face. When people are
in the same room and communicating via text or instant messaging instead of speaking
to each other, theres a problem.
People are wasting lot of their time by browsing internet, sending unnecessary sms
(messages), to one another through their mobile phones. This is totally wastage of time
and money.
Your phones dont need to literally come in contact with dirt or mud to be contaminated
by germs. You carry your mobile phone everywhere you go and it touches many surfaces
that may not be clean. Your own hand that holds the cell phone may not always be clean
either. A research conducted in 2011, found that one in six mobile phones were
contaminated with some sort of fecal matter and E. coli bacteria, which could cause
fever, vomiting and diarrhea, if consumed; it stated that these germs were caused
because the owner probably did not wash his hands.
4.2.8 Infertility
All those men out there, do you know your phone can make you infertile. Yes, it might
come as a shock to you, but the radiation from a mobile can decrease your sperm count.
So, limit your phone use and also make it a point to never carry it in your pockets.
No matter whether you use smartphone one, chances are that you check your phone
even while driving, travelling and even walking on the road. Phones can potentially
distract a person and increases a risk of traffic accidents. Also, phone addicts find it
difficult to concentrate while working or studying.
These days, whenever teacher gives assignments to students, they tend to search it on
the internet and copy down the facts. But, this is not the right thing to down. This would
reduce their thinking capacity and they just cram the facts listed on the internet. This
also makes students lazier. If this thing continues in the future as well, chances are there
that students would not do anything on their own and just cram what is given on internet,
they would not even try to think whether the matter given there is actually correct or not.
The more you use internet, more are the chances that your privacy is disturbed. Hacking
the internet has become very easy these days, hackers are very intelligent and you
cannot even imagine how they are going to use this talent of theirs to spoil your life. Not
only your basic information, but some of your most confidential details might get into
their hands if you do not use the internet safely. Students must operate the internet
under supervision of their parents and even if they think they are old enough, parents
should not allow them to be that much self-dependant.
After alcohol and drugs, internet is the third most addictive thing. Once you fall a prey to
this drug of internet, it is very difficult to come back from there. The internet addiction
can be of any kind, a student might be addicted to the social networking sites or the
gaming sites and in the extreme cases, a student might even fall a prey to the gambling
sites. In the third case, student may even lose all his familys wealth.
4.3.5 Insomnia
Due to the presence of internet, some students shorten their sleeping hours. They sit on
their laptops late at night, chatting with their friends or playing games on the online
gaming sites. If this thing continues for a long time, insomnia may occur. This is a state
where a person is unable to sleep. This condition is very harmful as we all know that
proper sleep is a must for good health. Not only it would affect your mental growth, but
your physical growth would also be very much affected by it. These days, students check
their updates on Face book and Gmail even in the middle of nights on their mobiles. This
also causes problems in the eyes of the students.
There are many things available on the internet that should not be in the reach of
students. But internet does not have any hard and fast rule for that. A 5 year kid can
approach the content which only an 18+ is allowed to see. This leads to some kind of
moral corruption among the students. The innocence and purity of the school students
as well as the college students is extremely affected by such things.
4.3.7 Inactivity
These days, students hardly do any of the physical exercises. They prefer bikes instead of
cycles or walking. This may cause obesity. And, to add to this problem, internet is there.
Students spend most of their leisure time sitting at one place in front of their computers
and very less movement is done by their body. Lack of any kind of activity is one of the
root causes of all the problems occurring to the body. Even at night, instead of sleeping,
they prefer to waste their time on the internet. Many of other health related problems
may also rise due to obesity and inertia.
Students are often given a loathsome of projects and presentations to make. Well, what
happens nowadays is that they simply copy paste all the information available from the
net into their notebooks. Not a single student tries doing it on his own. This plagiarism on
their part leads to lack of creativity in the students. Due to this they hardly even
understand whatever topic their project is on. They do not get a chance to explore
anything on their own as information an almost anything is readily accessible. Things
become easier for them in such a way that it hinders learning.
This technology might be doing more harm than good. It is not only changing how we
communicate, but how we inter-act with each other in daily life. Social networking affects
our lives in many ways, including our communication, self-expression, bullying,
friendships, and even our own mental health.
A study that explored the relationship between teenagers, social media, and drug use
found that 70% of teenagers ages 12 to 17 use social media, and that those who
interact with it on a daily basis are five times more likely to use tobacco, three times
more likely to use alcohol, and twice as likely to use marijuana. In addition, 40%
admitted they had been exposed to pictures of people under the influence via social
media, suggesting correlation between the two factors. Although a correlation is all it is, it
makes sense that social media would amp up the amount of peer pressure to which
teenagers are exposed.
A study from the University of Michigan collected data about Facebook users and how it
correlated with their moods. Simply put, they found that the more avid users were overall
more unhappy than those who used the site less. Over more time, avid users also
reported lower satisfaction in their lives overall.
Posts on social media many times present an idealized version of whats happening,
what something looks like, or how things are going. This can lead users to constantly
compare themselves to others and think less of their own lives. If things are going
particularly well for people in your newsfeed and youre having a rough day, of course this
will likely negatively affect your mood. In fact, in 2012 a team of researchers in the UK
surveyed users, 53% of whom said social media had changed their behavior; 51% said it
was negative behavior because of decline in confidence they felt due to unfair
comparisons to others.
Social networking sites encourage people to be more public about their personal lives.
Because intimate details of our lives can be posted so easily, users are prone to bypass
the filters they might normally employ when talking about their private lives. What's more,
the things they post remain available indefinitely. While at one moment a photo of
friends doing shots at a party may seem harmless, the image may appear less attractive
in the context of an employer doing a background check. While most sites allow their
users to control who sees the things they've posted, such limitations are often forgotten,
can be difficult to control or don't work as well as advertised.
3. The more time students spend on social sites, the less time they spend socializing in
person. Because of the lack of body signals and other nonverbal cues, like tone and
inflection, social networking sites are not an adequate replacement for face-to-face
communication. Students who spend a great deal of time on social networking are less
able to effectively communicate in person.
4. The popularity of social media, and the speed at which information is published, has
created a lax attitude towards proper spelling and grammar. The reduces a students
ability to effectively write without relying on a computers spell check feature.
5. The degree to which private information is available online and the anonymity the
internet seems to provide has made students forget the need to filter the information
they post. Many colleges and potential employers investigate an applicants social
networking profiles before granting acceptance or interviews. Most students dont
constantly evaluate the content theyre publishing online, which can bring about negative
consequences months or years down the road.
6. Extreme usage of social media has reduced the level of human interaction. Because of
social networks the interaction with other people has become effortless and people have
isolated their lives behind their online identities. Face to face communication and
meetings has been reduced and many of us have lost the flavor and charm to be
together under one roof.
Has watching television become an essential part of your routine? Do you have the habit
of watching TV for long hours after returning from work? Do you and your family watch it
regularly during meals or before bedtime? If your answer to all these questions was
positive, it is time you cut down on your TV viewing, and incorporate healthier activities
like exercising and reading, into your daily schedule. You don't want yourself or your
children turning into couch potatoes. Limit your screen time, as the negative effects of
television are many.
A study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association says that adults who
watch television for three or more hours daily are at a two-times higher risk of premature
death than those who watch TV for an hour or less daily.
Studies in psychology have shown that watching intense emotions on television leaves a
long-lasting impression on one's mind. Horror scenes or other frightful scenes on
television have a negative impact on the minds of people watching. Verbal, physical, or
any other form of abuse shown on TV has a psychological effect on the viewers.
Television is bad, especially for kids, because of the kind of content featured on it. Sex,
violence, and horror have a negative impact on young minds.
Watching content with violence (includes bloodshed, horror, murders, etc.) leads to
aggressive behavior in children. Such negative elements also generate fright in them and
increase their stress levels, further leading to sleep disturbances.
Sexual content on TV leads those vulnerable, towards sexual behavior. Children and
teenagers form this vulnerable group. TV programs may not show the real picture, and if
not given proper sex education, youngsters may engage in sexual behaviors that are
unsafe or unacceptable.
When an actor or TV celebrity is shown performing a stunt, teenagers tend to copy his
acts without considering the risks involved. An actor, as a part of the TV program or
movie, may be shown engaging in a risky behavior such as smoking or drinking. Kids and
youngsters may feel like imitating that behavior, thinking of it as casual or cool.
There is a theory that when a person plays video games or watches TV, the basal ganglia
portion of the brain becomes very active and dopamine is released. Some scientists
believe that release of high amounts of dopamine reduces the amount of the
neurotransmitter available for control of movement, perception of pain and pleasure and
formation of feelings, although this remains a controversial conclusion. A study
conducted by Herbert Krugman found that while viewers are watching television the right
side of the brain is twice as active as the left which causes a state of hypnosis.
When people watch tv show, serials, movies etc. in other culture or other religious. By
watching television people accept other culture and eliminations own culture. Thats
cultural problem create cultural conflicts. Cultural impact influence peoples activities and
behavior. Cultural problem impost people to create social crime.
Though technology give speed but take emotion. Despite the fact that we cannot really
ignore that there are a number of ways in which technology negatively impacts our society, for
the better part it has greatly helped to make out lives better. Technology has greatly helped us to
become more efficient thus increasing our productivity. It has also helped us a great deal to be
able to save on many resources such as time and money and these are great benefits that
cannot be ignored. It has also worked well in bringing unity into the world by turning it into a
global village which has in turn helped people to more easily overcome their cultural, racial and
continental barriers.
1. Computer user should use computer for important purpose, because unnecessary
use create addiction to computer.
2. User should seating maintain at least 30 inch distance from monitor so that
harmful radiance can not affect.
3. User should use internet security to protect valuable documents from virus and
also take personal computer in safe place where unknown people can not access.
4. I recommend user dont over use ear phone and dont talk too much via mobile
phone.
5. User should wash hand before and after use mobile phone because it carry germs
and bacteria different ways.
6. Men should not carry mobile phone in our pocket because its radiation decrease
sperm count.
7. User Should not depends on internet every aspect of life because it reduce
thinking capacity and creativity.
8. We should reduce unnecessary use of social media because it loss our time and
money.
9. We should secure our account from unknown and unnecessary access.
10. We should not share account and password to unknown people.
11. We should not watching television more then 1 or 2 hours.
12. Should not watch other culture programs because it affect own culture.
Class lecture..
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