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technology
PHONES/SMARTPHONES
Muggles, muggleborns and those with muggle influence in their families (e.g. their Dad is a muggle) probably do own a smartphone. It's the 2020s after all. That being said, these don't work properly in areas with a lot of magic (Hogsmeade, Diagon, The Ministry, etc) and won't even turn on at Hogwarts.
The only student who managed to get around that, to date, is Cernunnos Largo!
Those who come from all-wizard families are very unlikely to have phones. They only types of people who have them would be muggle fanatics (think Arthur Weasley), who view them more as a collectible.
social media
Again with the above: muggles, muggleborns and muggle-influenced wizards probably have social media accounts. As they are wizards, however, they probably don't use them as much as muggles do.
We don't want to see any characters being made on this site who are social media stars or are striving to be that. It just won't work well in this universe and should be something left for real life sites.
music platforms
As with the past century or so, besides live performances, the main method of music consumption was through vinyl records. Until about two decades ago, the wizarding world could only listen to their own creations and muggle music that was pressed on shellac and wax cylinders. Advancements in music technology have allowed wizarding folk to consume much more music than ever before both magical and muggle. Instead of the old windup gramophones of years past, there are more modern turntables to be used. This allows for vinyl of any RPM (rounds per minute) to be played with no issue. It only took decades, but now the experience of listening to records is more efficient with the turntables being powered by magic than electricity or having to be manually operated.
The wizarding world, in Britain at least, had only just adapted the use of cassettes in the past few years for ease of listening wherever. Being magnetic, the cassette itself was easy to adjust for magical use. The only issue was the players for such a listening format. With the help of Arthur Weasley's collection of muggle artifacts, a device based on the Sony Walkman called Audire was created. Audire, meaning to hear in Latin, was made specifically to listen to music on-the-go without the worry of carrying around records and a player suitable for spinning them. Some of the first magical releases to be pressed on cassette are Celestina Warbeck's entire catalog up to that point and the Weird Sisters' first few albums.
television
One of the latest innovations coming out of the United States is wizarding television. Unlike radio, which was adapted swiftly after the non-magical world found the technology, this took over half a century to make a splash among the wizarding population. Many found the idea of television to be unnecessary, such as the British Ministry of Magic in the 1980s, but groups of wizards in America began to realize its importance and how it revolutionized mass media as we know it. Over the past decade, older style TVs, mainly CRT televisions, were being discarded in favor of sleeker, newer flat screens, and the magical community in America realized that this was their chance to make an impact in how news and entertainment was consumed.
Thanks to the rapid development by their no-maj counterparts, the wizarding world was able to skip many of the awkward stages that occurred in the evolution of television. However, magical television is still fairly primitive. Instead of being broadcasted digitally, television programs are transmitted through analog means, modified to work with magic. As more and more of the non-magical world makes the conversion to digital and streaming services, it’s expected for the technology to gradually become more widespread due to the likelihood of Statute of Secrecy breaches decreasing. The risk being present, however, leaves for a limited number of channels just like the early years of non-magical television.
There are three major broadcasters: NWBC (National Wizarding Broadcasting Company), SBS (Snakewood Broadcasting System), and ORB (Owl Rousing Broadcasting). In addition to those channels is one dedicated to children’s programming and Audiovision, a music channel akin to old school MTV, and a small number of channels providing to a local area. All of them air a percentage of primarily pre-2000s no-maj media alongside programs targeted towards a magical audience; most magical programming come in the form of public access television, so they’re usually catered to the locale a wizard’s living in. Shows air in both black and white and color. Ilvermorny has a few of the first magical televisions in the recreation lounge.
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