New Media: Master or Slave.

New Media is becoming an increasingly integrated part of everyday life, with the internet fast becomeing a basic human right and fast replacing both postal mail and most forms of print media in terms of popularity, the question of whether new media is our master or our slave becomes all the more important. New Media is master only to the extent that we allow it to be.

Email can often be peoples master as most people check their email daily even though everyone knows that the vast majority of their mail will be junk that they dont want or need, be it spam, chain letters, or communications from people we are trying to ignore.