MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marshall Mcluhan, Interactive Art, Hypertext Transfer Protocol
23 Apr 2017
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In a digital society, multimedia content is accessed, shared, utilized, and created by millions of individuals. Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary daily life and they shape how we live and how we understand ourselves and our culture. Many aspects of everyday life, work, politics and culture have become mediated by info and communications technology. The use of these technologies result in a change in agency (the ability to make a difference) Agency: the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. Digital society: united nations report declared that access to the internet is a human right. Information society: a society where the creation, distribution, manipulation, and use of info is a driving force in politics, economics and culture. Knowledge society: focuses on economics; knowledge as a commodity. Digital citizens: people who participate in an information system.
