Archive for July 17, 2008
The power of media
I think It is very powerful thing. Since the invention of the radio, television,telephone, and the computer. It has made a very big impact in our lives. Today in our communities we have almost have everything that is used for media. W e have the regional radio that broadcasts from Mistissini. I think everybody has a television in their houses. I think computers are almost in every household in the cree communties. It was two or three years ago when some of the cree communities had cellphones. The only community that don’t have cellphones are Whapmagstui and Eastmain.Some people in my community have cellphones,but they can’t used them until they go down south or visit the other cree communities. The computer is the main thing at our house. I have five teenagers and they take turns at the computer . Sometimes I think the computer is on for twenty-four hours, I don’t think it is ever off. There are two main forms of communication in my house that is the computer and the telephone. I’ll give two example of my two teenagers. My nineteen year old daughter is always on the phone talking to her friend and sometimes she chats on the computer with at same time. She does this from the time she gets up, until she goes to bed. If we had the cellphone working here in our town. I think she would use the cellphone to text message her friend. My media freak is my fourteen year old son. He’s into everything that has to do with new technology. If you showed him a brand new form technology. He will know how to start it or how it works from just looking at it. He plays with guitar hero and plays with computer at the same time. I think these days children are advanced with new technology, they learn so fast.


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