SOC 232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Augmented Reality, New Media, Hybridity
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Books, newspapers, magazines, film, cinema, recordings, radio, television. E. g. , social networking, youtube, augmented reality, second screening, apps. New media vs traditional media: hybridity: enable integration of new and old technologies, networked and nonlinear: many-to-many connectivity, interactive: content is user-generated and continually modified, almost everywhere all the time. We are always available: many of us are connected all the time, and communicating electronically is becoming the way we live rather than just something we do. Smartphones allow us to always be available to others and we may have difficulty escaping this contact. Some people have become dependent on this constant connection. When blackberry smartphones were unavailable for several days, many called it a. Being constantly available might help us to strengthen our relationships with these significant others. But new media may also be keeping us apart: We are more connected, but at the same time more alone.
