Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Statement 1 is correct while statement 2 is incorrect, so only the first stands.

Statement 1 is sound because the new means of communication have indeed promoted an ideology of limitless, always-available communication that seems to know no bounds.

Statement 2 fails because these new means are not against electronically extended interactivity, they positively enable and expand it, linking people across distance.

The second claim inverts what the new media actually do, denying the very connectivity they are built to provide.

Reading the second as correct would misstate the direction of the technology's effect.

The rise of networked media is defined by widening interactive reach, not by resisting it.