CMN 2170 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: User-Generated Content, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mass Media

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2170
• Professor: Elizabeth Dubois

Document Summary

Interactive: gives users the ability to contribute as well as to consume media. Two-way: content receivable and send able. Made up of the following: computing & information technologies (it), communications networks; and, content and digitized media. Convergent media combines computing, communications, and media content. Section b (1&3 above: newspapers, dvd"s. Section c (2&3 above: cable tv. Section d (1, 2&3 above: internet. Elements to consider in the context of new media . Artifacts/ devices that extend our ability to communicate. Communications activities and practices we develop to use these devices. Social arrangements and organizations that form around these devices: all to say that new media is not a linear process. Hard to distinguish between channel and source: few people can be the ones to send out media, system limited to one way communication, *different from hybrid media system (see what media do we have. Channels include: radio, television, podcasts *potential for hybridity, newspapers.