New Technology

The innovation of snapchat 

Snapchat was created in 2011 by Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown and Bobby Murphy who were all students at Stanford university. The app was designed to communicate but using elements such as photos that disappear 30 seconds after sending. The app became highly popular and is still used by many teens everywhere. It is only about 10 years old however it dominates the social media industry and it used by millions around the world today. 


Social elements probably highly contributed to the use of this social media platform. Once one person started using it it diffused to other teens and became a main form of communication for their age group. Our generations were at the age where we were acquiring cell phones and getting social media accounts and snapchat just happened to be on the uphill. It was a new innovative way to talk to your friends and send photos to make chatting a bit more personable. It also was a convenient and free app so anyone could get it, which made it spread even more. Its one of those apps that nobody ever really got tired of and stopped using, its kinda just a natural habit for teens to use snapchat on a daily basis and multiple times a day to communicate. 

It has a lot of positives because it is a quick way to communicate and build stronger relationships however it is all being done behind a phone screen. Alot of less face to face interaction is taking place now in society because of social media such as this. Teens resort less to spending time with friends and playing outside with their friends, because they'd rather be on their phones. Its also easier for some people to say certain things within snapchat then face to face. It has just become the norma as a way to communicate rather than doing it directly which could be seen as bad. Generations after us could be even worse and less social as technology advances even further then it is. 




Articles Used:
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/history-of-snapchat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

Eight Values of Free Expression

The Most Important Value

One of the eight values of free expression that sticks out to me is the marketplace of ideas value.While not only does it represent freedom of speech it exhibits the rights to have opinions different than others too. It is one of the most important because it touches on everyone contributing their own ideas to possibly develop an even bigger one. Everyone has a different outlook and sometimes judgement is clouded by other biases or personal experiences, so having everyones ideas put into one and being able to draw conclusions from that is pretty cool.  i personally could relate to sometimes not contributing my thoughts/feelings towards something and later regretting not speaking my mind. I have the power to do so, so why wouldn't i use that to contribute to a greater idea. I see it as a bunch of different minds are coming together with all kinds of different thoughts that maybe build off of eachother to form a huge idea that maybe hasn't been thought of before. 

It also shows just how important community and contributing ideas is because if people didnt all come together and do this there wouldn't be new ideas made today. Opinions only stay opinions unless they are expressed and put out into the world. I think it is important that people are able to come together to share ideas to possibly form a bigger one. While all of the values of free expression contribute differently, i see this one as benefiting not only the ones contributing ideas but society as a whole when they are put into place for public use. New inventions, ideas and ways of thinking all come from these ideas that were once thought up and eventually expressed to others. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketplace_of_ideas

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History of Cassette Tapes

Originally refereed to as the compact cassette, introduced by Phillips in Belgium in 1963. It wasn't until 1965 that completely blank cassettes were created for recording devices and playback. By 1953 1 million households contained tape recorders that allowed the actual cassettes to be played and listened to. The actual casette  It contained 2 miniature spools that had an analogue magnetic tape made of polyester that had the ability to record and playback. They were originally created for dictation machines but later developed into something much more. It could come in blank forms for recording purposes or already loaded with content such as music. It allowed for easier and cheaper recording and playback than previous devices. Both Phillips and Sony related portable cassette platers that allowed those to listen to things such as music anywhere. Some cars even developed cassette players within them so that things could be plated while driving other than the radio.  For almost 2 decades they were extremely popular however  in 1980 they began to decline because of the discovery of CDs and other forms of playback. In 2001 less then 1% were sold due to this drastic decline. They are much less used today with the formation of smartphones and new technology. When Phillips created this device they had no idea what it would transform into as years progressed. From the walkman to the iPod to the first smart phone. All of these devices contained playback services as well as recording capabilities. 

Today, we probably cant imagine life without a portable device that we can listen to music on while walking to class or driving in our car. The advancement of something so small has turned in to a bigger idea that has transformed the way we listen and stream today. 




Related Articles.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape
https://southtree.com/blogs/artifact/the-convenience-of-the-cassette