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8. Pros and cons of mobile multimedia & mobile communications
Nearly unlimited possibility of creation and publication of the MM content is limited not mainly by the availability of the technology, but rather by the cost limits.
In relation to the subject of MM, the following pros and cons can be pointed out:
- Pros:
- supporting creativeness
- supporting the process of self-understanding by creating artificial (virtual) worlds
- strong support for the feeling of participation
- supporting the visualisation of otherwise invisible worlds (mathematical processes, data discovery)
- an educational tool having the potential never known before
- Cons:
- nearly unlimited possibility of manipulating the content, and consequently, its addressee
- suggestiveness supports reflection-less consumption rather than perception
- ''videoclip culture'' - heating up the perception and sensual excitement, emptiness filled up with anxiety
- convergence and fuzzification of borders between reality and generated worlds can lead to existential mislead
It is generally experienced that the public decision bodies can rarely succeed in directing the technological expansion and societal changes in the chosen directions. Nevertheless, an attempt should be made to take the above eight groups of problems into account when the decisions are made on spending the public money on research.
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