CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Media, Millennials, Vertical Integration

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Course themes: the intersection of technology and society ((of humans and non-humans, the relationship between communication and social orders. Social order- the economy, political system, culture, etc which creates systems of belief and sense of belonging: critically understand the relationship between old and new media. Introduction: community, mass media, social media, global, conclusion. More informational sources and more means to be able to access it. Not everybody has access to a computer or electricity. The new in new media does not necessarily refer to its newness (e. g. mobile phone) Similarly, new media technologies quickly go out of date/obsolete. New as novelty can be quite vague (e. g. new line of cars which largely just repeat last year"s model) Convergence: convergence as central means for understanding new media. A meeting together or intersection of previously unrelated things: technological: interconnection of previously discrete computers and devices into networks (i. e. hardware becomes hardwired, media: e. g.