CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW MEDIA 2

Question 1

1) digitialsion and technological convergence

Answer 1

growth in digitial tech since the 90’s= change way intro is stored/transmitted, all info converted into binary code regardless of format.
digilitaion resulted in convergence of diff types of info (txt/video/pictrue/musci) into single delivery system

Question 2

1) digitialsion and technological convergence BOYLE

Answer 2

ddgitilaison allwos for media to be delivered across a range of platforms which would prev be seprated/unconnected

Question 3

2) economic convergence

Answer 3

media/telecommunication industries which previously produced separate and distinct systems of communication (telephone/tv). begin to make economic alliances with each other as boundaries of media have been blurred. this created multi media delivery system

Question 4

3) cultural convergence

Answer 4

the new media has changed the way we interact in society, the new media has changed consumerism 6/10 British adults used media to buy clothes food music holdiay
OFCOM found Facebook is the default social networking site fro 96% adults who are on one. 9m uk communicate over twitter

Question 5

4) interactivity and participatory culture

Answer 5

the new media responds in real time by clicking on links. the internet eptiomises interactive media lets us select stories we want to read/watch
New media audiences no longer passive redelivered of info/entertainent, instead collab with new media.
Media consumers+producers now interact with eachtoehr with media which is constantly evolving

Question 6

5)choice JENKINS

Answer 6

media audiences today now interact with a variety of media, often using a single device for their choice of entertainmet/info/social relaitonships/social services

Question 7

5) choice BOYLE

Answer 7

Society’s use of tv has evolved from a system of supply> led to tv to demand and led to tv to org around what veiwers/subscirbes want and when . no longer controlled by tv schedules

Question 8

6) collective intellegense JENKINS

Answer 8

none of us know everything, we can put recourses together+combine skills, collective intelligence challenges tradition/offical ways of seeing the world provided by media owners/politicioans.
new media often very critical of traditional top-down froms of media

Question 9

a02- supporting statistics:
texting

Answer 9

texting preferred form of social contact for majority> 96% of people did this atlas once a week 2005

Question 10

a02- supporting statistics:
variety of devices

Answer 10

84% of adults 2015 uk accessed internet using variety of devices in/out of home, compared to 54% 2005

Question 11

a02- supporting statistics:
no interter access, 16-24 year olds uploading content

Answer 11

6% 50%