CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: New Media, Old Media

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Interactive the characteristics of digital information results in a particular type of communication. Ask what"s new for society about the new media rather than what are the new media? . 3 c"s to define new media: computing and information technology, communications networks, content and digitized media, arising out of another process (a fourth c), convergence. Convergence media can be seen as combining the 3 c"s. Convergence the process by which media technologies, industries and services are merging through changes in computing, communication networks and content. It refers to the interlinking of computing and it, communication networks and media content. New media can also thought as digital media. Digital media forms of media content that combine and integrate data, text, sound and images, all stored in a digital format. Take 5 characteristics of digital media + lievrouw and livingstone"s 3 elements = new media are interactive in a way that pervious media weren"t usually thought to be.