New Digital Media [Internet] Flashcards
David gauntlett
Web 2.0 (websites with user generated content ) has allowed individuals to communicate with audiences around the globe
Web 2.0 has seen a decline in
gatekeepers
A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something
Habermas
argued that new media are creating a public sphere
Chomsky
the internet is a major form of interconnection
Tim burners lee
creator of the world wide web
he saw it as a tool to connect anyone with a computer
world wide web
It connected the world in a way that was not possible before and made it much easier for people to get information, share and communicate.
It allowed people to share their work and thoughts through social networking sites, blogs and video sharing
crowdsourcing
internet’s ability to bring people together and to forge communication that is unrestricted by time or space.
shared activity
examples of crowdsourcing
crowdsourcing terrorism - “lone wolf attacks”
Uk police crowdsourcing for information about Manchester arena attacks- asking for photos or videos - using social media to find missing people
global digital report says
More than half the world now uses a smartphone
two-thirds of the world’s 7.6 billion inhabitants now have a mobile phone.
Reports from We Are Social and Hootsuite reveals that
there are now more than 4 billion people around the world using the internet.
number of internet users
4.02 billion
number of social media users
3.2 billion
Central Africa and Southern Asia- these regions are seeing the fastest growth in internet adoption.
Users in Africa are up by more than 20 percent year-on-year, with the reported number of internet users in Mali increasing by almost 6 times since January 2017
how many people started social media
Almost 1 million people started using social media for the first time every day over the past year – that’s equivalent to more than 11 new users every second.
Marshall Mcluhan example
global village- youtube - comments , live streams
Freedom of speech
lack of censorship - videos of beheadings
Logan Paul made a video which showed a dead body in a “suicide forest”.
Donald Trump’s tweets offensive, hateful, factually inaccurate or simply immature.
digital journalism
citizen journalism - Scenes from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were viewed by millions of people almost live on Wednesday, with gunshots and screams recorded for everyone on the internet to see and hear- videos were then uploaded to Snapchat
citizen journalism advantages
steadily made it easier to record and distribute first-hand accounts of breaking news events
citizen journalism disadvantage
inoculation model- the less it effects you- It’s being normalized in a strange way and not being presented in its seriousness
blogging/vlogging
allows people to share all kinds of views
De sola pool argues that the media has seen a ‘flowering of a thousand voices many of which previously had not been heard
Fake news
Garden shed becomes top-rated London restaurant on TripAdvisor after site tricked by fake reviews
censorship
In China , the government has highly restricted internet, one that doesn’t include access to Google, Facebook, YouTube or the New York Times.
cultural homogenisation
The USA dominates world media with 85% of the global film market and 68% of the television market - other cultures are prefaced with a single ‘standard culture- cultural homogenisation
Power users of social media
people use the internet for both discussion and activism
such as #Metoo encouraging women to speak up if they have been sexually harassed.
Timesup
hashtag that defined the golden globes- respect and equality across industry lines
in 24 hours, the #TimesUp hashtag was tweeted more than 520,000 times,
sherry turtle
connected but alone
