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)
- Overview: New media always creates change (printing press, telgram etc)
- Q: so how has recent technology changed (society, individuals, organisations, ideas, beliefs etc etc)
- CSP 1 – show knowledge of CSP
- characteristics of new media (in reference to CSP 1)
- theoretical / conceptual analysis of new media (loop theory, network theory, Dunbar number, McLuhan, Krotoski)
- 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
- Draw parallels and conclusions
- Suggest future pathways / developments