Week 2, Chpt 2

Question 1

Qualities of new media

Answer 1

Technical -digitalization, immediacy, interactivity

Socio cultural -primacy of user practices, transformation of new culture

Economic -corporization, integration with advertising

Question 2

Primacy of (amateur) user practices

Answer 2

Media technology where amateur users were key in the technology’s development. Ex. radio, Youtube

Question 3

New media has been at the centre of

Answer 3

several moral panics.

Question 4

How did Harold Innis categorize technology?

Answer 4

Time-binding and space-binding

Question 5

Space-Binding Technology

Answer 5

• A technology with great durability
• Carries messages across long periods of time
• Difficult to physically move

Question 6

Meltcafe’s Law

Answer 6

The value of a network grows as more people join.

Question 7

Carolyn Marvin

Answer 7

• less about the invention of new technologies, than about the ways that social and cultural life adapts new technologies

Question 8

Telegraph (Immediacy)

Answer 8

• overcame the limitation of moving information by moving things ( a previous limitation of communication)

Question 9

Flew & Smith: “one of the defining features of new media in the twenty-first century is how it has been _________”

Answer 9

• turned to commercial ends and, in particular, to advertising

Question 10

What do Flew and Smith say about the transformation of news culture?

Answer 10

• telegraph produced significant anxiety in the newspaper industry… could newspapers still be first to the facts?
• newspapers adapted to the telegraph by adopting their services, becoming outlets for a steady stream of wire clippings
• importance of information being communicated was questioned

Question 11

Telegraph (Digitalization)

Answer 11

• digital coding scheme (morse code) broke messages down into smaller components, transmitted via short pulses of electricity
• established an approach to the digitalization of information that has persisted into the present