new media

• new media - digital screen based technology used for the comsumption and distribution of media content
• technological convergence - while the traditional media involved different devices for different media content the new media allows a single device to combine various forms of media
• new media features - economic convergence - technological convergence - cultural convergence - digitality - interactivity - hypertextuality - dispersal - virtuality
• digitality - being digital rather than analogue
• interactivity - consumers of media can contribute to a participatory culture and a collective intelligence
• hypertextuality - links between different media mtexts that form a web of connections
• dispersal - the new media has become less centralised and has adapted to individual choices
• virtuality - people can immerse themselves in unreal interactive experiences and exist in a virtual world
• social class differences of new media - there is evidence of there being a digital divide and creation of a digital underclass
• age differences - gap in the users of new media with the younger people who have grown up with it being more likely to consume the new media
• gender differences - both males and females use the new media but the way in which they use it is different - women are more likely to own e-readers where as men have game consoles
• neophiliacs - new media is good for society
• why is new media good - more informed consumers - democracy - more access to info - world is a global village - social life and social interaction is enhanced
• cultural pessimist view - new media is bad for society
• why is new media bad - lack of valid info - cultural and media imperalism - threat to democracy - lack of regulation - commercialisation - increasing surveillance - undermining of human relationships
• cornford and robbins - new media is evolutionary - builds on old media
• baudrillard - media saturated society has created a hyperreality
• mcluhan - global village the world is becoming more interconnected through globalisation
• keen - lack of control over new media is dangerous and can lead to fake news
• boyle and haynes - new media has added to old media not replaced it