Suggestions of hot and cold media point to the need for people to observe or escape. Hot media presents the user with a means to observe a world with limited to no interaction or a cool media outlet that present limitless interactions and meaning. (Haliday, 1978)
Hot media although a staple in viewer ship, presents an either affirming or alienating standpoint to the consumer, whereas cool media reaches to the unknown and constantly changes as its interpreted. To find meaning in media such as is the study of social semiotics, technology may be viewed as a youth and male driven vehicle. What is known is that technology fuels the ever-changing dynamic of social media. The more interaction is allowed; the most things can either unite or divide a group/culture.
Because so much meaning is derived from social media and its products, new memes and meanings pop up all the time. A meme is an idea or behavior that spreads from person to person and carries with it cultural meaning or symbols. Such example would be "pedo bear." Somehow a stuffed bear became the image for pedophilia. Here cultural meaning attached to an otherwise regular image. (Hodge and Kress 1988)
Society or culture has become more and more reliant on technology. The ease and convenience of clicking and sending drives the present day forms of communication. Twenty years ago, a philosopher by the name of Donna Haraway famously said there will be a hybrid of human and machine termed, "Cyborg Manifesto. On page 150, the term is shown. "We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs" (Haraway 1991) although this hasn't happened in a literal sense, it does interpret simply the techno-culture of today. Have people become dependent on machines to communicate? The answer to this question may be too soon to answer. What is certain is that techniques applied in the past are still present today.
Symbols have long been used as an effective means of communications. Technology evolved the way symbols delivered and interpreted by consumers, but the meaning behind them hasn't changed. Sex and beauty sells and no matter how evolved communication between cultures has become, universal triggers will forever remain a constant. Iconographical symbolism, the use of universal and evocative symbols, can be divided into two main groups: abstract and figurative symbolism.
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