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THE MEDIA - Coggle Diagram
THE MEDIA
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Debates about new media
Neophiliacs
(optimistic about spread / influence of new media technologies - offer more choice / opportunity) = beneficial to society
Increased consumer choice
- convergence / interactivity = better quality
- people choose from a number of delivery systems
- competition increases quality of media output
Informed consumers (e-commerce revolution)
- e-retailers, e.g Amazon, increase choice = prices are competitive / lower = consumers are in control
- SEATON - 'many to many communication'
User participation (revitalising democracy)
- ITZOE - internet is "loose and anarchic" (part of the anti-global-capitalism movement = used internet to challenge power elites (e.g, Hacktivist and Anonymous)
- e.g, Black Lives Matter, Anonymous are examples of groups that have used / abused technical capabilities to highlight political issues
- SEATON - 'many to many communication'
- changes the way we do politics (gives a voice to those unheard)
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Lack of regulation
- argued new media needs state regulation
- easy access to pornogaphy, homophobic sites etc is taking free-speech too far
- increased use of new media = rise of problems (cyber bullying)
- some say the irresponsible use of the internet is a price worth paying for free expression / exchange info
- control of info largely outside governments control - ISPs operate outside UK territory
Alone together
TURKLE - refers to new media users as "cyber bogs"
(always connected to each other)
- people live full-time on the web
- result in greater isolation / anxiety (although increased connections)
LIVINGSTONE - argues children today communicate more with virtual outside world than with adult members of own family (e.g, parents text when mean time is ready)
New media & Chaos
KEEN - claims the internet is chaotic (has no governing moral code / place where truth is selective and subject to change)
1) social network sites don't contribute to democratic process as they are vehicles for narcissistic self-broadcasting
2) user-generated sites are open to abuse and bias = unreliable sources ('cut and paste' intellectual thieves)
3) most output of new media outlets is unchecked and an uninformed opinion (lies / controlling is the norm)
4) internet contributing to cultural illiteracy = less young people engaged with researching the world
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