Week 5 - Changing Technologies

Question 1

According to Manovich, What is new media?

Answer 1

new media is
“the translation of all existing media into numerical data”

Question 2

What are the 5 principles of New Media?

Answer 2

1) Numerical Representation
2) Modularity
3) Automation
4) Variability
5) Transcoding

Question 3

What are the 3 types of convergence?

Answer 3

1) Technological
2) Industrial
3) Cultural

Question 4

Technological Convergence is:

Answer 4

“THE FLOW OF CONTENT ACROSS MEDIA PLATFORMS”

Question 5

Industrial Convergence is:

Answer 5

“THE COOPERATION BETWEEN MULTIPLE MEDIA INDUSTRIES”

Question 6

Cultural Convergence is:

Answer 6

A PROCESS WHERE “CONSUMERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SEEK OUT NEW INFORMATION AND MAKE CONNECTIONS AMONG DISPERSED MEDIA CONTENT”

Question 7

Technological Determinism:
Cyber UTOPIANISM

Answer 7

Over exaggeration of internet shaping the society

Question 8

Technological Determinism:
Cyber DYSTOPIANism

Answer 8

Technology has cause major socital disruptions