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New Media and Digital Culture (Module 3: Approaches to New Media…
New Media and Digital Culture
Module 1:
Introduction to New Media
Todd Kappelman’s article
Marshall McLuhan: "The Medium is the Message"
uses Marshall McLuhan as an example of how new media allows ideas to be condensed and cut up for easier consumption.
What is New Media:
What Is New Media: Defining New Media Isn't Easy
by Bailey Socha and Barbara Eber-Schmid details how the term New Media is sometimes difficult to describe and how the definition changes with technological advances.
Module 3:
Approaches to New Media
Technological Determinism: How technology is influenced by society's cultural and social structures.
“Social Shaping of Technology (SST)” by Jiyan Wei discusses the actor-network theory and social shaping of technology theory.
“Tools of the Mind” is a chapter explaining technology and how it can change how we process information. Technology is said to help us evolve and change the way our minds think to better use the newly available technology.
Module 2:
Twenty Concepts
in New Media
The TED talk “Connected, but alone?” by Sherry Turkle poses the question of if technology is having a negative effect on our relationships.
"Our Digital Form of Life" by Michael Patrick discusses how technology makes information more readily available and also delves into nuromedia, computer brain implants.
"Kurzweil & the Technological Singularity" discusses how technology is quickly advancing and how he claims that by 2029 we will have reversed engineered and mapped the brain to simulate it. He explains that computers will far surpass human thought to give humanity more technological tools. Kurzweil goes on to explain his personal views on rapid growing technology and warns that although he is optimistic, he claims it is up to us to use it wisely.
Michael Patrick Lynch's article "Google-Knowing' goes through how Lynch tried to acquire knowledge without using Google to highlight our new found dependence on the internet to learn information.
Module 4: Social Networking & Media
Technology Making People Less Sociable? is about how Keith N. Hampton and Larry Rosen's different thoughts on how social media effects us. Rosen is more pessimistic about social media and believes it distracts us. Hampton views social media as a tool to keep connections.
The video "This Panda Is Dancing - Time Well Spent" by Max Stossel showcases how social media and our smartphones can be used to distract us from what is going on around us.
Module 5:
Games Technology,
Industry, Culture
Module 6: New Media & the Transformation of Higher Education
"The Digital Degree" is about online courses and degrees, Some students find online classes and degree programs more efficient and convenient than a traditional education.
"Higher Education is Not Mixtape" by Derek Newton poses the question of if schools can break down their degree programs and offer single classes to students. Newton disagrees and explains how the system will be faulty when attempting to unbundle courses.
"A Glimpse of the Future Through an Augmented Reality Headset" by Meron Gribetz explains how technology and augmented reality will move to be more intuitive to how humans already think.
"Why Online Games Make Players Act Like Psychopaths" by Ryan Rigney describes how some games, specifically survival based ones, can make us act more violently than we do in person.
Module 6: New Media & the Transformation of Higher Education