New Media Flashcards
Boyle
New media is often associated with young people with some sociologist believing in a generational divide with how media is used
Helpser
Talks about class and new media how poor people are excluded as digital underclass can’t keep up with middle class technology. Come from low education and low technological skilled backgrounds with using technology at extreme slower rate. All course they are poor so cannot afford it
Ofcom
The trend that since 2005 to 2015 there has been a rise in media consumption within adults and children
Lil and Kirkup
The digital gender divide
Men more likely to use computer games and Xbox whilst women used emails and chat rooms
Olson
Found that boys are more likely to play violent video games to express fantasises of power and glory and to work out their anger and stress
Hartmann and klimm
Worm gamers tend to dislike violent content and preferred social interaction between the games
Royce
Female gamers who played video games found the technical compition as motivation to challenge gender norms
Curran seaton
Necophillic a type of theorist feature on new media being a positive
Increases consumer choice
Allows e-commerce revolution
Revitalises democracy
Jenkins
New media is developed by big corporations which are becoming more concentrate Microsoft dominates the internet evaluates the necophillic
Keen
Creates digital Marxism to advertise ourselves evaluates necophillic
Conford and robins
New media is not that new mixes with old media people have been interacting with media for a long time. Phoning into a radio show and everything running faster evaluates necophillic
Seaton
A cultural pessimist who views new media as a negative who argues political involvement is the same as people regular involvement how people are not involved in politics but big corporations behind the scenes are
Harvey
Cultural pessimist talks about decline in the quality of popular culture
Television has dramatically increased amount of channels for people to choose dumbing down poplar culture
Turkle
Livingstone