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New Media &Digital Culture (Approaches to New Media ((Technological…
New Media &Digital Culture
New Media: Content anytime, anywhere, on any digital device. It has an interactive user with feedback, creative participation, and community formation.
Collective Intelligence:this concept is the idea that "none of us can know everything; each of us knows something; and we can put the pieces together if we pool our sources and combine our skills"
Three C's Computing: Content, Communication, and Computing
Approaches to New Media
Technological Determinism: assumes that a society's technology detemines the development of its social structure and cultural values
Social Shaping of Technology:the alternative view to technological determinism, it argues that technological innovation is a "social product".
Mcluhan: Media theorist described media technologies as "extensions of man".
Social Networking & Media
Metcalfe's Law: the equation [n x(n-1)=n2-n] means that membership in a network has a value to the user but is more valuable to other users.
Modularity: is a property of a project that determines the extent to which it can be broken down into smaller components. A nuclear plant his low modularity, whereas Wikipedia has high modularity.
Clay Shirky proposed the idea of "cognitive surplus", meaning people choose to participate and engage in social media rather than engage in passive media.
Games Technology,Industry,Culture
Gamification: refers to the use of game mechanics in nonage contexts such as education.
Major Player in the Traditional Games Industry: : game consumers, game developers, game retailers, game distributors, game publishers
Augmented Reality: a technology that super imposes a computer generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.
New Media & The Transformation of Higher Eduation
Criticism of MOOC (massively open online courses):devoid of local context, not taught by a high level professor, and complexion rates for MOOCs are extremely low.
Three Phases of Growth in the higher ed sector: Elite,Mass,Universial
Improvements in machine intelligence are enabling automation to creep into new sectors of the economy, from book-keeping to retail. New online business models threaten sectors that had, until recently, weathered the internet storm.