Week 4, Chpt 4 Flashcards
1
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networks
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- diverse, decentralized, highly visible, flexible, distributive
2
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Metcalfe’s Law
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- value of network increases with the number of connections it contains
3
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Benkler
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- wealth of networks
4
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social production
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- collaborate, non-proprietary, not market driven (“crowd sourcing”, from consumers to users
- sharing or gift economy
5
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participatory media
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- long history of DIY
- de-professionalization, de-institutionalization, and de-capitalism
- situated with a larger context of convergence culture
- Henry Jenkins
6
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convergence culture
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- flow of media content across a range of different devices and distribution systems, shaped by both new media technologies, industrial economics, and audience/user practices
7
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industrial economics
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- media synergy and consolidation (vertical and horizontal expansion)
8
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audience/user practices
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- producing, sharing/spreading, connecting
9
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What does Jenkins mean by saying that convergence culture is both a “top down” and “bottom up” process?
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- professionals and amateurs contributing
10
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Our use of digital participatory media can be see as a form of _______.
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- immaterial labour
11
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content we create is _____, not owned by us.
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- monetized
12
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Examples of participatory media as reproducing inequalities/hate
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- racism
- sexism
- homophobia
- islamophobia
13
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Cambridge Analytica’s use of psychometric methods in Trump campaign is an example of what?
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- participatory media as generating “big data” about us
14
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social media networks/platforms
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- incorporates both the logic of networks and participatory media
15
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Boyd says “social network sites” allow users to what?
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- construct a public or semi-public profile
- make a list of other users to whom they are connected; view and navigate such lists of connections
