Ng Zeng Woon/ Have the new media changed our lives for the better?

New media has not changed our lives for the better as it has affected the kind of information that we are able to refer to take or use from the Internet. With new media, it brings about a new dimension for users who are now able to freely upload any form of information online, be it statistics, facts or definitions. This may lead to an increase in unverified information and hence the information may also lack credibility as such.
However, assumptions that all information lacking a certain level of credibility are false ones. Some of these information come from organisations such as government agencies; organisations from which their information pose a certain level of credibility which they substantiate further with backing data. Also the common Internet user is trained in cross referencing data in order to verify its credibility and ensure that the data which they collect are of trustworthiness. For instance, in projects, students or parties involved in researching for their projects have to sieve out the right data out of a vast ocean of data which can contain both credible and non-credible data. In addition, they would need to substantiate it with the source in which the information originates as well as evidence to substantiate the information used as well as proving that it is credible.
As such, it is not necessarily true that new media does not change our lives for the better.