Characteristics of new media

Question 1

Digitalisation and technological convergence

Answer 1

Growth of digital technology in the 90s has lead to a change in way information is stored and transmitted.
All informed is turned into binary code.
This has resulted in the convergence of different types of information into a single delivery system.

Question 2

Cultural convergence and stats

Answer 2

Changed the way we interact
Changed consumerism
6/10 British adults use the media to buy products. This is only other OECD (organisation per economic corporation development).
Facebook is default site for 96% of adults online.
9 million people in the UK communicate over twitter.

Question 3

Economic convergence

Answer 3

Media and telecommunication industries previously produced separate and distinct systems of communication.
But have now made economic alliances with each other as boundaries of media have been blurred.
Creating multimedia delivery systems.

Question 4

Interactivity and participatory culture

Answer 4

Media responds in real time by clicking links.
Users are no longer passive receivers but now collaborate with new media.
Media producers and consumers no longer have separate roles, they interact with each other constantly evolving.

Question 5

Collective intelligence

Answer 5

Jenkins
‘non of us can know everything… challenges traditional and official ways of seeing the world’.
New media often very critical of traditional top down forms of media.

Question 6

Choice

Answer 6

Jenkins
We can now interact with a variety of media.
We have a choice of entertainment, information, social relationships and services.

Question 7

What are some statistics for the characteristics of media?

Answer 7

84% in the UK (2015) accessed the internet using a variety of devices inside and outside the home, compared to 54% in (2005).
Texting preferred form of social contact, 96% at least once a week.
6% of households have no internet access (OfCom report).