COMM 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Clay Shirky, Media Space, Prosumer
20 Jan 2017
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New media as contrast with older, mass media. Old media: media space as static space, linear form dominant, window provide window on the world. New media: media space as navigable space, database form dominant, control panel-provide way to control. New media theory interested technology and networks. Connection to : information society (interested in roles of information/data in daily life, public sphere (internet facilitating public debates, i. e. the cybercitizen) Debates about new media: digital divide/access, net for entertainment not political activity, lack of understanding of how people use new media. Rise of the prosumer: everyone is a media outlet (shirky) Context applies to commercial and non-commercial contexts. Wider society via new media now has public arenas that facilitate rise of mass amateurization: people (facilitated by tech) have changed the system, mass amateurization- audiences acquire resources for personal production & distribution. Shifts in news cycles- movements towards deprofessionalization process & structures, shifts in institutional prerogatives & what constitutes news.
