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what is new media? - Answer according to flew and smith: the 3 Cs
the 3 Cs - Answer -computing and information technology
-communication networks
-content and digitalized media
the 3 Cs overlap to - Answer produce a culture of convergence that defines our new media
era: flow of media content across a range of different devices and distribution systems, shaped
by both new media technologies, industrial economies, and audience/user practices.
when we study new media - Answer we are not only examining the media technologies
themselves, but their relationship to larger social, political, economic, and cultural contexts
The hype(early 1990s) - Answer new media as producing a whole new world based on ideas
of freedom, knowledge, individualism and openness
American Values - Answer libertarianism and counterculture bohemianism, disrupt old
power hierarchies of the state in favour of networked individuals
counter-hype - Answer I am afraid I would get hooked and never spend time with my family
technological determinism - Answer sees social change as driven primarily by technological
change, disassociates technological innovation from its social and cultural context, focused on
technological impact or effect on society
social shaping - Answer technology(including its innovation, artifacts, practices and impacts)
is shaped by social, cultural and economic factors; technology as located within particular
historical contexts
need to analyze the socioeconomic patterns - Answer embedded in both the content of
technologies and the process of innovation
technology design - Answer in both the product of social power relations, as well a s a
strategic site of social and political struggle.