CMNS 253W Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mature Technology, Internet Meme, Social Forces
8 Jul 2016
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Content and digitized media, arising out of another process, a fourth c, New media can also be thought of as digital media. Manipulable digital information is easily changeable and adaptable. Networkable digital information can be shared and exchanged between large numbers of users and across distance. Dense very large amounts of digital information can be stored in small spaces. Compressible capacity can be reduced through compression and decompressed when needed. Impartial digital information carried across networks is indifferent to how it presented, who owns or created it, or how it is used. The artifacts or devices that enable and extend our ability to communicate. The communication activities and practices we engage in to develop and use these devices. The social arrangements and organizations that form around these. The differential access to and use of the internet according to gender, income, race and location. New media are central to debate about globalization and its impacts because they enable borderless communication.
