ICT has impacted entertainment and leisure byenhancing and providing us with different waysin which we would casually spend our time.With the use of these technologies, the ways inwhich we can entertain ourselves hasdramatically increased.
Impact of ICT on Entertainment• An advantage to this is that anyone can get access to almost anything on the internet from online games to videos on youtube• However, the development of these technologies has meant that many people stay inside, watch TV, play online games etc. Therefore you couild say that the amount of leisure activivies that people do have decreased with aspect to the wide range of entertainment technologies.
ICT has made a huge impact on entertainmentand on how we spend our time casually. Thisindicates that the increase in technologiesprovides us with more ways of entertainingourselves. Many things that did in the past cannow be done on the computer more easily.Now almost anyone can easily get access tothings like music, music videos and online gameswith the touch of a button.
Examples of Entertainment in ICTICT provides users with a great number of entertainment.Here are the main ones:Playing computer games can be a popular leisureactivity. They are published for personal computers. Anindividual player can play against the computer or cancompete against other players.The internet is used as a channel for the distribution ofmusic through music download websites.Using ICT enables you to communicate with others andsocialise online with friends using certain websites likeFacebook.The next slide explains some of these in more detail
Music in ICT• Back in the 1950’s there were only vinyl records and the radio. Today we listen and gather our music in a number of ways which all consist of ICT.• The invention of the compact disc made a huge leap in sound quality- no more hiss crackle in the old vinyl records.• We can pay for a music track in an online music store and download it to our computer, laptop or personal mp3 playerAdvantages: ICT allows you to have many ways of listening to music, on the move or through our living room Disadvantages: The music indsutry is so concerned about illegal copying that Digital Rights Management (DRM) methods have become common. These sometimes cause a problem when trying to listen to perfectly legal music.
VideosNow It is so easy for anyone to catch up with anyTV episode they have missed or any programmesby going online and watching it. Many of the mainTV channels such as BBC and ITV have their ownwebsites and players like bbc iplayer where anyonecan watch something they missed on that certainchannel.The good thing is that you only need access to acomputer and internet and you can watch itwhenever you feel but the bad thing is that thevideo can be slow and take time to load.
Bibliography• http://www.teach- ict.com/gcse/theory/social/miniweb/entertainment. htm• http://wiki.answers.com/• http://igadgetlife.com/wp- content/uploads/2008/06/bbc-iplayer-beta.jpg• https://www.google.co.uk/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
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