CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Html, Digital Divide, Application Programming Interface

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

What society finds novel in new media and what role new media plays in wider social change. New media is an outcome of the digitalization of content, which has enabled convergence through the changes in in perspective and recognize. The process by which media technologies, industries and services merge. Term is sometimes used to describe technical convergence, as when various modes of entertainment (ie. movies, music, magazines) are all available on one internet-connected device. Chapter explains the characteristics of digital information and how those characteristics result in a particular type of communication that can be summed up as interactive. The ability to contribute to as well as consume media. Generally reserved for activities that extend beyond merely changing channels. We examine the internet as one of the most important new media forms of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and review its history, social implications and recent growth of. Web 2. 0 focusing on the role of search engines.