“A change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by natural or supernatural means.” this is the definition of Metamorphosis. It speaks a lot of change, alteration, and modification in someone or something. Mediamorphosis is designed to change and create inventions to catch up with the new era. When I say catch up, it just simply symbolizes the difference of what the essentials are for human beings from the early 1900’s and the current. Cars weren’t a big thing before because walking wasn’t a bother. Cellphones aren’t in every person’s hand before because writing letters and meeting up with people were considered the primary way of communication. The evolution of purpose to start needing objects started when people saw loopholes in their capabilities – some inventions were able to help, while some were useless. Not only our physical capabilities matter but also our mental, emotional, intellectual, financial, and many more.

The theory of Mediamorphosis has 6 principles: 1. Co-evolution and Co-existence – Old forms of inventions influence the new ones; 2. Metamorphosis – New media gradually transforms from the old media.; 3. Propagation – They have communicatory codes that are spread and passed on. 3 communicatory codes are Oral, Written, and Digital language.; 4. Survival – For something to survive, it must learn to adapt. In this time of day, it would be risky to not include the audience’s perspective of what’s going to help them and what’s logically enough to be created. Magazines are one example. They were first made for lots of people and their over-all point-of-views but now, they cater different races and is more open.; 5. Opportunity and Need – There must be market opportunity. It must convey solutions to our social, political, and economic problems.; 6. Delayed Adoption – Not all inventions are expected to be accepted rapidly by people. It takes time and it takes a great amount of marketing to be considered a “want”. Just like computers, it wasn’t a hit because of it’s complexity but because of the enhancements through time, it became more appealing and user-friendly.

A lot of Mediamorphosis’ ideas are focused on the development of media through processes that include the use of online services. The service approaches fast, and easy to use news. The old media is suffering like print. With social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and gadgets like smartphones, and tablets, we’re consuming more news. Print media is now desperately creating news that will catch our attention like talking about unnecessary celebrity news, sports update, articles about sex, war, and crime. They write provocative news just to get emotions out of people and get opinions whether it may cause negative outlooks on their works because indeed we have an appetite for scandals and gossip nowadays. The print media’s also struggling at how they will get news. Most of them still rely on what’s been reported in social media while the best stories are being told and created by brave journalists in front of scenes in real time. Yet, with all their unfortunate situations, print medias are the one who report honest and frank news about what’s important. A lot would be seen when talking about politics and government and they’re more reliable. What we see on social media isn’t always what it seems to be because of tweaks that are made to excite the readers.

Is the progress made by human beings helpful? What have we become after social media became important to us. Mentally, I have been very aware of a lot of happenings around the world but it comes as a negative effect for others because of the abrupt opinions that makes a lot of talk and disagreements. Emotionally, it has bad effects for everyone because it’s making boundaries with communication. We get to share more, but we don’t accept a lot of ideas. Physically, some became lazier, while others used the media to be more aware of health. Others get to flaunt their beauty, while others got more insecure with artificial and edited faces everywhere. This proves that people are going to be using social media to change the world. It just depends on how the people will react to everything that will be provided to them.