COM CM 380 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Denis Mcquail, Internet, Understanding Media

• School: Boston University
• Department: Mass Communication, Advertising & Public Relations
• Course: COM CM 380
• Professor: Vigil

Document Summary

In the digital era, distance is barely limited because communication is immediate now. In the social sense, there"s still a distance. It"s different communicating with someone in person and over social media: credibility: In the oral tradition, you tend to know others" credibility more. But information that"s hard to access is rare and more valuable. In the olden days, everything was handwritten and getting copies was expensive - so information was extremely valuable. Thursday october 11: changes with medium - community vs. individual, consumption and participation: social, antisocial, pseudo-social, interpretation: correct vs. incorrect perspectives, creation: message-making and message dissemination, transactional v. invitational. Implications of convergence (these changes affect 8 areas): media organization, before convergence, media content was created and published by centralized media organizations. 4: digital and online media have blurred lines between interpersonal and mass communication, blog: short for weblog; a website where people post journal or diary entries arranged chronologically.