New Media

Question 1

Key features of new media

Answer 1

Convergence
Interactivity
Audience/user power
Accessibility

Question 2

Boyle and Haynes

Answer 2

New media only added to what was already existing it didn’t replace it
The speed of communication is the only thing thats changed

Question 3

Curran and seaton
Different views of new media

Answer 3

Neopholiacs
Cultural pessimists

Question 4

Neophiliac view

Answer 4

Easier access to information and advice
-24H news
Greater consumer choice and freedom
-blogs give marginalised and disadvantaged people a choice
Challenging power and revitalising democracy
-hold politicians to account,radical views challenging mainstreams ideas and social movements
New social networks and global connections
- emergence of new global village,global connections and many new groups with thousands of interactions

Question 5

Cultural pessimists

Answer 5

Lack of news/misinformation
- access to more information but most is just copied and modified, fake news for political agenda
Domination of media conglomerates
- rather than free development and expression media is controlled by a few big tech companies that invest large amounts to not only a control access to new media but search engines and web servers which store info,many users se platforms and people unable to see radical blogs unless they want you to
Increasing consumption and commercialisation
- internet sphere of consumption, most of what we see is aimed at selling something making it difficult to read some new sites due to ads,companies use out data to find preferences sell to advertising companies, 1/3 of Amazon purchases are made from recommendations
Increase in echo chambers
- led to more polarisation and conflict e.g brexit
Reinforcing elite power
-parties use media for ads and campaigns,keep their biased info at the top of search engines
Surveillance - ex CIA analyst claimed in 2015 British security ervuces had technology to access the info stored on people’s phones
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Question 6

Neophiliac view on who controls media

Answer 6

New media is democratic and bottom up
Public control it

Question 7

Andrew keen
Control of media

Answer 7

Uncensored freedom of new media and internet can be seen as full of opportunity or danger or both