New Media

Suggested Essay Structure?

Remember to focus on key issues around new media – privacy, knowledge, understanding, education, friendship, behaviour, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, politics, economics, employment, education (essentially social change)

  1. Overview: New media always creates change (printing press, telgram etc)
  2. Q: so how has recent technology changed (society, individuals, organisations, ideas, beliefs etc etc)
  3. CSP 1 – show knowledge of CSP
  4. characteristics of new media (in reference to CSP 1)
  5. theoretical / conceptual analysis of new media (loop theory, network theory, Dunbar number, McLuhan, Krotoski)
  6. Critically thinking about new media (Baudrillard, McLuhan, Krotoski, Clay Shirley [collaboration], Henry Jenkins [fan culture consumption] B. F. Skinner, Zuboff, Lanier)
    • CSP 2 – show knowledge
  7. Draw parallels and conclusions
  8. Suggest future pathways / developments

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