MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture 1: MMEDIA 1A03-Week 1
12 Jan 2019
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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 profoundly 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 information and communications technology. Use of these technologies effectively becomes a requirement of life (necessary to fully participate as citizens). In 2011 a united nations report declared that access to the internet is a human right. The ruling stated that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law. Our current moment: often conceptualized as a time of mass participation in the construction and utilization of new forms of expression and communication. The combination of diverse media, especially electronic media, into a coherent communicative or expressive object or experience.
