Intro - Digital Media

• Digital media


  Includes both the tools used to create media such as text, images, audio and video, and also the idea of communicating and sharing through the internet and the web
• Technologies have revolutionised the production and distribution of digital media content as well as its consumption
• Education has undergone tremendous changes, with advanced technologies now commonplace in supporting learners from early years through to higher education
• The medium is the message


  The way in which we are entertained or receive explanations can have as profound an impact as the actual content which is being communicated
• Most of us now have an expectation that our learning and entertainment will include audio and video technologies, and this has changed the way in which we learn and are entertained
• Audacity


  A freely and openly available audio editing tool
• Issues of privacy and data protection, as well as copyright and intellectual property rights, need to be considered when sharing digital media online
• A media database of images and sounds has been provided on the module website which can be used, and other files are made available under a Creative Commons license
• Digital media used as a 'consumer'

  • Television
  • Radio
  • Online music and pictures
  • Social media
• Digital media created as a 'creator'

  • Photographs on camera
  • Videos and audio recordings on smartphone
  • Posting to social media