MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: New Media, Postmodernity, Twine
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Somatically things we know through direct sensory perception of our own environment. Symbolically things we know through someone (like friend, textbook, film etc) a medium. Motion pictures and sound recording dominate music industry. New media difficult out of the other media"s. Convergence formerly diverse media to share common integrated platform. Mobility ease w/ which an object can be moved from place to place. Fragmentation consuming public into more specialized taste cultures. Globalization complex set of social, political and economic process in which physical boundaries and structural policies before reinforced autonomy of nation of instant worldwide nations. Simulation implosion of the image (representations) and the real. Socialization describes process by which persons both individually and collectively learn, adopt and internalize cultural beliefs and norms of a society. What we know content (- informational component to a message; specific details like though mass media) influences what we learn. How we know - how we process message (makes us think) {somatically and symbolically}
