After studying the assigned reading 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook: Chapter 54:
Traditional and New Media, and then reading "The Impact of New Media on Inter cultural Communication
in Global Context" complete the following assignment by synthesizing the readings. Considering the
statement “technologies are simply tools” write a short essay that incorporates answers to the following
prompts:
A) Explain how that statement relates to the keywords describing new media: "manipulate, converge, and
instant."
B) How does the concept of intercultural impact of new media increase the complexity of the statement?
You should especially consider the new experiences, for human beings that the convergences of new
media and globalization bring about.