NEW112H1 Lecture Notes - Telstar, Nonverbal Communication, Sound Intensity
Document Summary
Cct109 may 8- lecture 1 textbook notes convergence: the process by which media technologies, industries, and services are merging. Internet, email, mobile phones, computer games, digital cameras, and instant text messaging is simply preposterous: only folks on shows like big brother and survivor don"t have access to such devices, and that was their choice. This takes us to the larger question of whether, and how, technologies can act as factors in wider social change while being already embedded in a social context. One way that "new media" had been defined involves the combination of 3 c"s: computer and information technologies (it, communications networks, content and digitized media, arising out of another process, (a 4th c), convergence. An oral culture without writing, print or electronic media seems to be biased toward a particular pattern of sensory and expository capacity that encourages ways of seeing, hearing and knowing. All communication media and communication technologies are extensions of basic, innate human communication capacities.