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New Media and Digital Culture (Module 4: Social Networking & Media.…
New Media and Digital Culture
Module 1: Introduction to New Media .
What is New Media?
"Most technologies described as "new media" are digital, often having characteristics of being manipulated, networkable, dense, compressible, and interactive" (Socha and Smith).
For me is the study of how the generation is evolving towards the technology.
Marshall McLuhan
We are surrounded by extensions in our lives. Extension is the term that McLuhan refereed to the facilities that people have now. Cars are extensions of our feet and phones for our voice.
Module 5: Games Technology, Industry, Culture.
The gaming industry's revenues have exceeded the movie and music industries in the US.
Employment in the games industry is male dominated and lacks diversity.
James Paul Gee
Talked about video games, every game it is a problem, and somehow the gamers should figure it out how to find a way in order to win.
“Why Online Games Make Players Act Like Psychopaths” by Ryan Rigney.
Module 4: Social Networking & Media.
"The Social Network" film analysis.
“Is Technology Making People Less Sociable?”
Larry Rosen argues that internet is damaging the way that people interact.
Keith N. Hampton thinks the internet is helping people to keep relationships moving forward. For example Long distance relationship.
Clay Shirky
“Does the Internet Make you Smarter?.” Shirky thinks that this is a silly generation because people cannot focus on one thing, and they get easy information.
William Poundstone
“The Internet Isn’t Making Us Dumber — It’s Making Us More ‘Meta-Ignorant.’" People of this generation have so much information in their hands that they do not have to memorize it.
Nicholas Carr
“Does the Internet Make You Dumber?”
“When we're constantly distracted and interrupted, as we tend to be online, our brains are unable to forge the strong and expansive neural connections that give depth and distinctiveness to our thinking” (Carr par.4)
Module 2: Twenty Concepts in New Media.
Sherry Turkle
"Connected, but Alone." People get into a virtual reality where they find heard, attention, and connection.
Michael Patrick Lynch
"Google-knowing." Searching the right data for information. People go online without knowing where the information came from.
Three C´s of computing.
Communication
Computing
Content
Module 3: Approaches to New Media.
Film Analysis of movie "Her."
Christopher P. Jacobs
“Film Theory and Approaches to Criticism, or, What did that movie mean?.” He encourages the audience to appreciate the films, and try to find answers that the director is suggesting.
Social shaping of technology
Technological innovation is a "social product."
Module 6: New Media & the Transformation of Higher Education.
"The Digital Degree"
A new way for students to get their degrees without being in college.
“Higher Education Is Not a Mixtape” by Derek Newton.
He makes an argument against who are predicting that the higher level education will be a worldwide web
Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC).
Digital media technologies enable more flexible delivery of education.