CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Digital Divide, Human Computer

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

Document Summary

Interactive: the ability to contribute to as well as consume media, generally reserved for activities that extend beyond merely changing channels. Newness can refer to updates of long-established commodities: ex. Media companies own internet companies, but also television shows with complementary websites on all devices: possibility that one might speak of convergence from three different perspectives, technology, services. Usb, cloud: compressible: large amounts of data can be reduced via compression and decompressed when needed. Livingstone"s observations: new media are interactive in a way that previous media were not, old and traditional media are still the basis for much of the conceptual apparatus that we bring to the media. Internet history: while convergence has now spread across a range of platforms and devices, it was the emergence and mass popularization of the internet that heralded the rise of new media. Growth of the internet websites and hypertext markup language (html)