CMNS 253W Chapter 3: - Approaches to New Media Notes
18 Jan 2016
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Chapter 3 - approaches to new media o. Two important parts of media - form and content. How content is affected by form is important o. Recurring feature of the development of the internet and popularization of digital media technologies has been their ability to generate excitement about how they are expected to change, typically for the better. May be linked to the belief that technology is socially progressive. Extent to which cyber space possesses not only technical, political, and economic properties, but also how it is a form of cultural myth and offers possibilities of transcending the limits of contemporary society and the material world. Digital media is decentralizing and globalizing when it reduces the necessity of being co-present in order to coordinate our activities. Fashion designer example - designer in van, factory in montreal, o. Pro - new access to info based on computer use and availability. Pro - communities can form that are not space-bound.
