CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: User-Generated Content, Web 2.0, New Media

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Whether, and how, technologies can act as factors in wider social change while being already embedded in a social context. Content and digitized media, arising of another process. The interlinking of computing and it, communications networks, and media content that occurred with the development and popularization of the internet. Convergent products, services, and activities that have emerged in digital media space. Networked information and communication technology (ict) devices. Convergence opens up the possibility of much broader geographic reach in the production and consumption of media. Second element of convergence is morphing of devices as they become multi- purpose conduits for a range of activities involving digital media. New media can also be thought of as digital media. Lievrouw and livingstone"s three elements = artifacts, activities, and arrangements. What differentiates old media from new media is that new media are interactive in a way that previous media were not usually thought to be.