SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Civic Journalism, Homophily, Conspiracy Theory
11 Jan 2018
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Allows for comments, responding, sharing across platforms. Social media focused on social connections, and designed with social connections in mind. *****you can have something be new media but it isn"t necessarily social media***** Decentralization of control over media resources that are central to the production of culture in the rst place. Youtube offers a user generated alternative to the mass media broadcast yourself . Produce a more from the ground up culture": you don"t have to wait for the news to come on at 7, different relationship with media now. One of the the distinguishing aspects of new and social media is that interactivity is central to it. Far more user to user (peer to peer) interactions. New media allows for more clustered networks of speci c interests. Echo chambers": when you surround yourself with people who share the same world view as you so all you hear back is your own opinion / thoughts.
