Shadow Medium Guides The Mobile Interconnection Time

The first cellphone was born in 1973.And from then on, the cellphone has grown from a communication tool to a new medium combined with newspaper ,broadcasting,television and internet. The cellphone's convience was very remarkable. And it has the ability to influence people at any time. Combined with other mass media,the cellphone transforms our feelings.Some scholars call it shadow medium,and this comparison is suitable. The combination of cellphone and internet is remarkable and has huge potential. It was thought that the most unthinkable revolution in the future will be based on the ability of mobile interconnecting. And the cellphone is a good example.The cellphone is very young, but many fields in our lives have been transformed by it. Some were sharp and some were progressive. The double roles of the cellphone make its double influence. As a medium, the cellphone is combined with newspaper,broadcasting, television and internet. New forms of media were born, users could read newspaper, watch television with cellphone. The advantages of two media are also combined. The cellphone which can photograph helps journalists. It also enables the users to report, which challenges the professional journalists.More pictures are taken by users at the scene of action. And editors have to sharpen their eyes to make sure the pictures are true. And journalists may lie with the help of cellphone. The form of some programmes must be changed. The difference between the journalists and readers blurs. The users get more channels to get information,and their communication with programmes becomes easy..The cellphone itself also faces challenges. The combination of cellphone and newspaper or television is not mature. The two are trying to find suitable programmes for cellphone. How to make profit and how to divide it are also waiting to be settled. With the development of the 3G cellphone, cellphone will be more competitive.As a tool of communication between users, the cellphone has influenced us for years and transformed much.We get extended by chatting with people far away.The whole globe looks like a village.On the other hand, we can be found very easily. You have to answer the phone even if you don't want to. Users lose the feeling of quiet. The cellphone helps strengthen the family relationship,and changes someone's reading habit. Simple pictures are popular and text finds its new stage.Some users are depending on cellphone so much,and in Japan where cellphones are popular this dependence is apparent. Sometime it becomes anxiety. Users may have the illusion that our cellphone are ringing. Lying is easy with the help of cellphone,and couples distrust each other partly because of Fengxiaogang's movie Cellphone.Spam messages and ring noise are also puzzleing us.Previously many scholars are interested in cellphone and release papers about it. Kuangwenbo's Introduction of the cellphone medium and Paul Levinson's Cellphone:The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everying ,Tongxiaoyu's the Principle of the Fifth Media and Zhuxiaosong's the Fifth Media:Separate Media and Directional Communication under the Wireless distribution are outstanding of them.Cellphone is developing, transforming our lives.It also has disadvantages,but on the whole it suits our convenience.As a medium, cellphone must solve many problems,mature provisions, technical standards,commerical pattern,etc.The cellphone medium has show its huge advantage, and with the help of technology and other tranditional media it will develop rapidly.