COMS 203- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 203
• Professor: Tamara Shepherd

Document Summary

Objectives: define & understand new media in historical context, view new media scholarly. Twitter, facebook, instagram, snapchat: flew & smith (p. 3) things all new media has in common, computing & info tech (it, communications networks, content & digitalized media. It"s a feeling: attached to a date, culture, societies, mediated, mediated through individuals in archives, eg. Scrolls are fragile & only accessible to certain individuals, original content mediated through specific channels. Histories of new media: how electricity has been applied to communications, that feeling of newness, cultural assumptions, representation of history. Media archaeology: method: reading the new" against the past, positioning digital media within broader histories, eg. Telegraph, telephone, film, radio, tv: not just one single narrative. When old technologies were new (1988: carolyn marvin. Intro of electric light & telephone: communications revolutions . The telephone could reproduce the heinous as well as the holy carolyn marvin.