MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Locative Media, Kinetic Art, Network Society
22 Feb 2018
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In digital society, multimedia content is accessed, shared, utilized, and created by individuals. Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary daily life and profoundly shape how we live and how we understand ourselves and culture. Many aspects of everyday life work, politics and culture have become meditated by information and communications technology. The use of these technologies result in a charge in agency (ability to make a difference) Use of these technologies effectively becomes a requirement of life (necessary to fully participate as citizens) Capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. United nations report declared that access to the internet is a human right. Ruling stated that disconnected people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law. Information society: society where the creation, distribution, manipulation, and use of information is a driving force in politics, economics, and culture. Knowledge society: focuses on economics; knowledge as a commodity.
