Developments in Digital Forms Of Communication

Question 1

Carter (2005)

- virtual communities

Answer 1

explores how digital communication both creates and maintains relationships. She researched ‘Cybercity’ and visited it 3 times conducting questionnaires and participant observation and found that cyberspace was used to meet new people with similar interests

Question 2

Castells (2000)

- Network society

Answer 2

argues that although society remains capitalist, the focus has shifted from oil, gas and electricity to a focus on information which is of central importance to determining economic productivity

Question 3

Boyle (2005)

- media convergence

Answer 3

explains how the process of digitalisation allows media convergence, where once spee rate forms of media can now be accessed though one device