Key terms

  • 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.

shareactivecreativehost
example or comment
story

re-connectpersonalisestream
example or comment
experiencestorescaleimmerse
example or commentsee hear and experience events that have happened not having to be there
interfaceliveadaptbinge
example or comment
conversationre-performcirculateendless

example or comment

TOPICNOTE / COMMENT
The Printing Press (Gutenburg) in the Medieval period mid 1400’sthe 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 VailThe Network effect
Norbert Weiner Loop TheoryLoop 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 NumberThe 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 Bushassociative 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 BernersLeethe 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 McLuhanThe 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.

Leave a Reply