- Because new media technologies are constantly being developed further, being improved and becoming more powerful then the new machines need to be seen as desirable by the consumers otherwise they will not sell more products.
How do we often 'unwittingly give up our privacy'?
- By taking advantages of the new media technologies that are available because many of them are able to track your history of use, such as google can track everything you've searched for, and Amazon can track every product that you've browsed.
How have NMTs criminalised audiences?
- By offering new technologies such as file sharing the audiences have been illegally downloading music and practically stealing from the music industry even though they may not have realised it, and some violent videogames have been cited in murder cases.
What health and environmental issues do NMTs pose?
- Nobody really knows what the NMTs do to our health, because they are generally fairly new technologies so we cannot tell what the long term affects on our health are. People are worried about mobile phone masts being put up near schools, and the decrease in sparrows has been blamed on mobile phone signals affecting their fertility rates.
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