CCT109 - Contemporary Communication Technologies

CCT109 FALL 2016 EXAM STUDY GUIDE (TUT 105) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgf_dpXizDE CLASS 5 - MEDIA & SELF Participatory Culture: a culture in which citizens are not just media consumers but also media producers, usually through social media such as Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Such users of media are sometimes referred to as ‘prosumers’ Modularity: according to Benkler, the properties of a project that determine “the extent to which it can be broken down into smaller components

Internet History The internet refers both to: A technical infrastructure of computers and other digital devices (eg server routers) permanently connected through high- speed telecommunications networks The forms of content, communication, and information sharing that occur through these networks DiMaggio, Hargittai, Neuman, and Robison define the Internet as “the electronic network of networks that links people and information through computers and other digital devices allowing person-to-per

Internet History The internet refers both to: 1. A technical infrastructure of computers and other digital devices (eg server routers) permanently connected through high- speed telecommunications networks 2. The forms of content, communication, and information sharing that occur through these networks DiMaggio, Hargittai, Neuman, and Robison define the Internet as “the electronic network of networks that links people and information through computers and other digital devices allowing person-to-

CHAPTER 1 Introduction to New Media Why “new” media? When explaining why certain media is new, there is a temptation to list the latest developments in media. This approach is inadequate partly because the rate of change in media technologies, services, and uses is so rapid that any list of this sort will quickly become dated. Such an approach is also problematic also because media technologies now considered “old” such as film, radio, and television were themselves once considered new. One way

Getting Perspective Media technologies especially new media technologies are part of the social world, their influences are felt through the developers and are heavily affected by how people interpret the messages they contain.  People adapt and modify the intended use of new media Familiarity with multiple theories helps with investigations and encounters with commentary: identifying the strengths and weaknesses of an approach and when one perspective might be more appropriate or useful What

Getting Perspective Media technologies especially new media technologies are part of the social world, their influences are felt through the developers and are heavily affected by how people interpret the messages they contain. People adapt and modify the intended use of new media Familiarity with multiple theories helps with investigations and encounters with commentary: identifying the strengths and weaknesses of an approach and when one perspective might be more appropriate or useful What to

CHAPTER 2: PROGRESS Progress means to move forward. In broad cultural terms, progress is often used to underscore the belief that the humankind, as a whole, moved forward. Robert Nisbet, a sociologist who wrote extensively on progress, put it this way: “Simply stated, the idea of progress holds that mankind has advanced in the past from some aboriginal condition of primitiveness, barbarism, or even nullity, and is now advancing, and will continue to advance through the foreseeable future. Progre

Chapter Outline Set media in its historical context, drawing connections between current network technologies, convergence trends, and prior inventions such as the telegraph, radio, and television Ability to send messages without moving physical objects; immediacy factor Journalism politics, and businesses were all transformed by the use of the telegraph and the telephone Radio and television were testing grounds   Early Traces of New Media Advanced in new media have their roots in technolog

CCT 109 Lecture 3 Test in two weeks From Telegraphs to Internet Mobile Media and struggle How new media came about and how they alter political and social power Cb radio How fast can messages be created? How long do they last? How fast can they be moved? How far an they be moved? How big can they be? How accurate are they? TECHNICAL MEDIA “Unlike writing, technical media do not utilize the code of a workday language. They make use of physical processes, which are Faster than human perception and

Chapter Outline Set media in its historical context, drawing connections between current network technologies, convergence trends, and prior inventions such as the telegraph, radio, and television Ability to send messages without moving physical objects; immediacy factor Journalism politics, and businesses were all transformed by the use of the telegraph and the telephone Radio and television were testing grounds Early Traces of New Media Advanced in new media have their roots in technologies t

What exactly is ‘new media’? My concepts are drawn from our textbook “New Media, and Introduction” chapter 1, pages 2-5 A lot of times when we’re asked what new media is, we are tempted to list ‘new’ developments in technology such as phones and tablets and laptops. What we fail to realize is that these media technologies are constantly evolving, and aren’t rigid enough to be the definition of new media. I personally believe that new media is digitized media. It’s the way in which information te

The monkey debacle with PETA Primary oral culture Pictographic Chirographic Typography Core Themes Co-constitution Suppression of radical potential Ideology Coherent set of social values, beliefs and meanings; the values beliefs and meanings of the dominant class Can be an economic division Primary Oral Culture Sacred, immediate, highly skilled mnemonic devices, dialogic, conservative, situational, homeostatic Mnemonic - assisting or intended to assist the memory. Homeostatic - internalized r

Circuit Switching - Is like an on off switch completes circuit. Packet Switching - Cut up data into small pieces and passes through other networks to reroute messages in order to get to the receiver. Meaning there are multiple ways to get to the sender. Transfer Control Protocol/IP - This is basic language of internet it is not private open to everyone. DNS Domain Name Server - It's like a phone book of the internet. Hard to remember the phone numbers but the name is easier to remember Mobilit

MOBILITY WITHOUT MAYHEM (Overview) The Citizen's Band (CB) Radio Service, also known simply as CB, is a public, two-way personal radio service. There are several classifications of CB operation. The best-known form of CB is voice communications that became a fad in the 1970s. Mobile CB operation, especially in cars and trucks, remains popular. To a lesser extent, "CB'ers" engage in fixed operation from homes, and in portable communications using handheld transceivers. Most CB operation takes pla

Print culture History of mass communication Computing and internet Core Themes Pivot from broadcast to new media Printing Press Typesetting Punch w/letter in relief on it would be used to create a mold of the letter Compositor would arrange the wood onto a wood groove Ink the letters, place paper into printing press Impression Paper pushes against inked grooves Moveable type press Credited to Gutenburg Social impact-nationality, language, humanism, publisher Foster sense of national identity S

Print Culture printing press Gutenberg in Europe 1450 Invented in China Associated with end of Medieval Age Typesetting Punch with letter and hammer into a panel of ink Impression Offset printing is a widely used printing technique. Offset printing is where the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket. An offset transfer moves the image to the printing surface??? Moveable Type Press Movable type is the system of printing and typography that uses movable component

Mobilities (ability to transport the user elsewhere) Mobile vulgus Mobile changeable vulgus common people/the masses Mob Corporeal mobility Body moves from pt A to pt B Liberation Can be physical or psychological Mobilize: make like an autobot and roll tf out Portable vs mobile Portable - movable, but unusable while moving / mobile - movable, but usable while moving What constitutes the first mobile technology? Brick/car phones Walkie-talkie Transistor radio Walkman Mp3 player Smart Phones

What is communication?  Medium - Sender (Encodes) > Message (Noise) > Receiver (Decodes) > Feedback  In/Decodes information by language The level of understanding is not uniformed Feedback is murmur, putting hands up, looking Noise is anything that could interfere with the class In/Decodes + Transmission  What is Technology?  The tool shouldn’t make life harder, but life is getting harder Progression, more efficiency, some sort of value relating the word technology Throwing a trash can a

Core Themes Co-constitution Suppression of radical potential Ideology A coherent set of social values, beliefs and meanings; the values and meanings of the dominant class The study of ideas Shared set of values and culture Implies unifying structure; that ideas are about different things but are interconnected Philosophical world view Establishing norms of society Trying to represent reality and subjectivity Class A division; several intersections Hierarchal status of society and economic ter

Approaches to Communication Theory areas of communication theory Society Content Audience 3 core themes Indeterminacy (nothing is fixed) Structure Agency verbal communication Arbitrary (sound is just attached to obj) nonverbal Iconic coding (picture) Intrinsic coding (the actual thing/person/object) Supposed to enhance communication Convey attitude, emotion, provide feedback, accompany speech for other purposes Most info we receive at our sensory receptors is incomplete/ambiguous Unconscious