DSDN 171 Assignment 7

I believe that a "symbolic universe" for this era  would be the one based on a structure of communication.  In a world where communities/families can be separated by thousands of miles, something that is happening more often as people have to look elsewhere for jobs, communication is becoming of bigger importance as people want to keep in touch.

One instance of this is social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.  People use these to keep in contact with people who they cannot see in person often, such as friends and family overseas.  People also use it to try and contact people who they would normally not be able to contact, such as celebrities.  They also play games with each other over vast distances.  The communications of today allow the world to be almost one community.

The media and designers are helping the world become this one community by designing faster and cheaper communications that become more accessible and easy to use allowing more people to keep in contact with the ones they know and also meet new people of similar likes.