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New media Flashcards

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2021: What % of adults could access internet?

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94% (OFCOM)

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2021 What % of over 60s had internet access?

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80% (OFCOM)

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2021 What % of 18-34 year olds could access internet?

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99%

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“During the last 30 years more information has been produced globally than in the previous 5000 years”

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Bauman (2007) - postmodernist

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Lister et al: 5 features of new media

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Digitality
Interactivity
Hypertextuality
Dispersal
Virtuality

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Some types of old media have now

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adapted to new media forms (eg online newspapers)

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Neophiliacs/ cultural optimists (definition)

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People who are positive about the benefits of the media

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Cultural pessimists/ neophobiacs (definition)

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People who are critical of the media

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Cambridge analytica scandal (2018)

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data of millions of facebook users was used without their consent, predominantly for political advertising purposes (US election)

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Digital underclass - Helsper

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Members of the WC unable to access internet

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Differential internet access based on class (2021 - OFCOM)

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51% of households earning between £6000-10,000 had home internet access compared with 99% of households with an income of over £40,001.

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Young people are used to new media

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because they grew up with it (Boyle) and are better at using it

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Young people using internet differently

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Spend longer online, use it for fun and info (news) (OFCOM 2014)

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Gender differences in using media (OFCOM 2014)

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men spend 3x as long watching videos and more likely to get news from internet

women more likely to use e-readers, socialise online, send texts etc

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Li and Kirkup (2007) In China and Britain men have more positive

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attitudes to the internet, are more confident in computer skills, use email more but are less likely to use internet to study

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2015 - 28% of internet users were from

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Europe, which makes up only 16% of overall population

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Lister et al - features of the new media: Digitality

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new media uses technology that uses binary code (distributed broadly and quickly)
can now be accessed through smartphones, laptops etc

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Lister et al - features of the new media: Interactivity

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consumers can engage with a variety of media, can engage with several types simultaneously, can customise what they consume and create their own content

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Lister et al - features of the new media: Hypertextuality

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media is spread through a variety of ways, links with other media content and can be very wide reaching (eg viral things)

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Lister et al - features of the new media: Dispersal

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media forms are less centralised and more adapted to individual choices, range of media available makes it very pervasive in daily life, more people are making media
eg algorithms show you what it thinks you’ll like - individual preference

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Lister et al - features of the new media: Virtuality

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people can present different identities using new media and can immerse themselves fully

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Jenkins (2008) - 21st century media is marked by

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convergence, changing how media is consumed and produced

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Jenkins - technological convergence

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distinct technologies come to share tasks and resources (eg smartphones that take pictures are a convergence of digital photography and cellular telephone technologies)

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Jenkins - cultural convergence

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the way media users engage with a range of media content delivered in various ways, and how they seek out, share, make sense of and make connections between content

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Jenkins - participatory content

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consumers can now also be producers and create their own media content (shift from information-reception to information-production)

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Jenkins - collective intelligence

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the way media users collaborate and share knowledge, resources and skills to build a shared intelligence that is greater than any one individual’s (eg shopping reviews, facebook groups discussing shared interests)

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Jones - young people have more internet access but

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young people from disadvantaged backgrounds don’t

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30% of the global population are

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‘digitally included’

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Molinari identifies the need for

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improved access and education around the new media for disadvantaged people

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Curran and Seaton created the terms

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cultural optimism/neophilia and cultural pessimism

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Bivens - changes to the old media due to growth of new media

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shifts in news flow cycles (citizen journalism means journalists don’t control it anymore, less time to produce news, more info + quicker spread)

heightened accountability (fact-checking and criticism)

evolving values (more immediacy)

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Mcnair - elite groups have less influence

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over traditional media - balance of power shifting to citizens due to development of new media

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Philo - media influences what we don’t think about (gate keeping) but

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more people have an influence over what the media shows

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BBC deputy editor quote

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“blogosphere had an immediate impact on Newsnight’s running order”

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New media has led to a rise in churnalism due to

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cost cutting and increased competition to attract audiences

“churnalism” term created by Zakir - lower quality content recycling/reusing information

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Newman and Levy (2014): over 1/3 of 18-24 year olds

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used smartphones as main source of news

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500 TV channels and 172 million websites

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in 2013 (Netcraft) - wide choice of new media (cultural optimists)

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Cultural optimism view of new media - better informed consumers

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can see product reviews, more info available etc

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Cultural optimism view of new media - more user participation

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Jenkins - participatory culture
can make media

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Cultural optimism view of new media - greater democracy

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through social movements eg petitions
more info available

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Mcnair 2006 - “information,

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like knowledge, is power”

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Cultural optimism view of new media - more public input

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Mcnair - “neither editors nor proprietors call the shots anymore”

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Cultural optimism view of new media - more access to information

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social media, news, other websites eg NHS symptom checker

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Cultural optimism view of new media - world becomes a global village

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McLuhan came up with term “global village”
Reduced space and time barriers in communication
Encourages cultural diversity

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Cultural optimism view of new media - enhanced social life and social interactions

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postmodernist view that new media contributes to social diversity
new channels of communication
OFCOM (2014) - 56% of UK population used facebook

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Cultural pessimist view of new media - problems with validity of information

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lack of fact-checking, fake news etc

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Cultural pessimist view of new media - cultural imperialism

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Fenton - the new media imposes western values

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Cultural pessimist view of new media - threat to democracy

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digital divide means unequal access to information

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Cultural pessimist view of new media - increased power of commercial businesses

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Mackinnon (2012) - “sovereigns of cyberspace” eg apple, amazon
hold great power eg amazon blocking wikileaks

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Cultural pessimist view of new media - censorship and control

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Mackinnon - examples of China and Iran which censor news and internet
surveillance present even in UK

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Cultural pessimist view of new media - lack of regulation leads to undesirable things

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drugs, identity theft etc
terrorist groups using social media for radicalisation

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Cultural pessimist view of new media - commercialisation

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pushing advertising onto consumers (“advertorials”, sponsored content)

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Cultural pessimist view of new media - no real increase in consumer choice

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Preston - people only see what they want to see
Curran et al - “dumbing down” of media content (poorer quality)

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Baudrillard - postmodernist

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we live in a media-saturated society and we identify more with media than reality

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Baudrillard (postmodernist view) - hyperreality

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media gives a distorted view of the world eg sanitised footage from wars

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Baudrillard (postmodernist view) - media presents simulacra

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media images which seem like reality but aren’t (eg soaps)

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Garrod (2004) (postmodernist view) reality TV

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blurs the distinction between reality and hyperreality - confusion about what’s real and media created

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Strinati (1995) (postmodernist view) - power of media in shaping consumer choices

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popular culture, adverts etc - we define ourselves in terms of media imagery

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Strinati (1995) (postmodernist view) - quality of product is

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less important than media presentation (branding etc)
film quality is less important than who’s in it

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Criticisms of postmodernist view

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  • assumes people approach media with no prior views or experiences
  • people question the media often
  • many people can’t access media
  • marxists - the extent of choice is a myth
  • media only forms one element of what shapes our lives (gender, class, work, family etc)
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Evidence the new media is revolutionary

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  • increased citizen journalism
  • increased social interactions
  • increased surveillance
  • less variety of news?
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Cornford and Robins (1999)

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developments of new media have been evolutionary not revolutionary - interactivity existed in old media (eg letters to newspapers) and new tech built open old technology

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Boyle and Haynes (2004)

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new media has added to what was available from old media rather than replacing it (eg can watch TV normally or online or catch-up)

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Both Cornford and Robins and Boyle and Haynes note

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that the main change in new media is the speed of communication

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OFCOM 2022 - 6/10 parents

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agree that the benefits of the internet (eg information, news) outweigh the risks

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OFCOM 2022 - 1/4 of 12-17 year olds who use social media

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follow activists or campaigners for causes they care about

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OFCOM 2022 - over 1/2 of 12-15 year olds

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said it’s difficult to tell whether news on social media is true or not

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OFCOM 2022 - 3/10 children

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uploaded their own videos online in 2021

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Example of fake news in new media - Kony 2012

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viral video showing brutality in Uganda under Kony, but he had left Uganda years before

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Example of impact of new media on politics - Arab Spring

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anti-government protests across North Africa and Middle East in 2011
protests spread due to footage shared on social media

but evidence suggests impact of new media was limited - 93% of protesters relied of word of mouth/ TV for information and majority joined protests in Egypt after government had shut down twitter (US Institute of Peace Study)

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Dutton and Blank - attitudes to internet in Britain (used interview’s in participant’s homes) - found 5 ‘cultures of the internet’

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  1. E-mersives (12%) - positive attitude, use internet for entertainment, social and work
  2. Techno-pragmatists (17%) - use internet for instrumental and work purposes
  3. Cyber-savvy (19%) - understand and use all aspects of internet but are aware of risks
  4. Cyber-moderates (37%) - no strong feelings either way
  5. Adigitals (14%) - strong negative beliefs and attitudes to internet
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Example of citizen journalism at work: Ian Tomlinson

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was attacked by a police officer during the G-20 Protests while walking home. The police covered up this event. A passer by documented the events and was published by the media. The officer was then charged with manslaughter.

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Bhattarcherjee suggests that instead of cultural imperialism

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hybridisation occurs in new media, creating a new cultural syntheses between different cultures

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Tomlinson suggests that globalisation of media

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leads to the loss of local cultures or the changing of cultural identities

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