CMNS 253W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: New Media, Neoliberalism
20 Jan 2017
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Network connectedness is one of the keys of this. Most served, most functional when characterized by consumers and prod o o. New media as one key aspect of new epoch. Analogue: processes in which one set of physical properties can be stored in an analogues form o o o. Live sound of someone singing vinyl record. Media are industrially mass produced, physical artifacts that circulate as are readily commodified. Digital: all input data are converted into numbers, which are abstract and sym. Released from confines of physical artifacts, data can travel far and fast a processed quickly and automatically o. Data can be accessed at high speed, by multiple users simultaneously. Data does not need to be accessed linearly. Digital content can integrate data, text, sound, and moving and static images. Impartial: digital information carried across networks is indifferent to how it represented, who owns or created it, or how it is used (flew and smith, p. 5)
