CMNS 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-7: Substantivism, New Media, Social Forces

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New media can be explained through constructivism, it has an audience and creats a public sphere where social and technological logic is present. In terms of politics media is an extension of self for politicians. Determinism technology operated according to an inexorable logic inherent in technology itself (technology seen as a part of natural evolution: how print media has evolved to digital media, evolution in news media and how it influences politics. Constructivism instrumentalism and substantivism combined, technology is shaped by social forces. Invention of facebook, wikileaks, any social media outlet, news outlet: technology must have social and technical logic.

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