- speed
- time
- feedback
- share accsess
- storage
- share
- history
- connectivity
- participation
- discover
- retrieval
- knowledge
Key Words associated with New Media – complete table with examples or notes below each key term.
| share | active | creative | host | |
| example or comment | ||||
| story | re-connect | personalise | stream | |
| example or comment | ||||
| experience | store | scale | immerse | |
| example or comment | see hear and experience events that have happened not having to be there | |||
| interface | live | adapt | binge | |
| example or comment | ||||
| conversation | re-perform | circulate | endless | |
| example or comment |
| TOPIC | NOTE / COMMENT |
| The Printing Press (Gutenburg) in the Medieval period mid 1400’s | the impact of new technology |
| Impact of new technology in South Korea as a result of promoting greater digital interaction (speed, connectivity, spread etc) | mental health internet addiction? Choices made? ‘A world without consequences’ ‘Senses over meaning’ |
| On-line / digital connection stats | |
| Theodore Vail | The Network effect |
| Norbert Weiner Loop Theory | Loop Theory – predictive behaviour But is behaviour shaped and altered through networking and digital communications (pushing / pulling) Issues around privacy and individual psychology (mental health / wellbeing) and the environment Virtual worlds / virtual identities (hypperreality, simulation, implosion – Jean Baudrillard) (Judith Butler ‘gender performance / David Gauntlett, Anthony Giddens etc ‘fluid & multiple identities’ The |
| Robin Dunbar – The Dunbar Number | The Dunbar number suggests that connectivity for individuals, communities or groups is typically 5 o 6, with an upper limit of 150. So who benefits from greater connectivity? Companies, organisations, institutions – ‘small elites dominate’ (Andrew Kean) |
| Clay Shirky | |
| Vannavar Bush | associative not linear thinking the demise of long form reading So changing rules for logic, rationality, truth, understanding, knowledge. Baudrillard implosion (a culture imploding in on itself rather than expanding and developing?) |
| Tim Berners–Lee | the inventor / creator of the World Wide Web – developed and given to everybody for free?!! Why? What did he hope it would achieve? Is he satisfied or disappointed with how it has developed and made an impact on society? |
| Marshall McLuhan | The Global Village – ‘a sophisticated interactive culture’ |
| The impact on political and economic decision making | |
| Conclusions, suggestions, reflections and predictions |
stats:
- 8hrs a day cell phone use for teenagers
- 2.93 billion facebook users
- spend an average of 5 years and 4 months on social media
- 4.9 billion social media users
- 5.07 billions internet users
- 16 millions new members on Netflix during covid.