Media, Information and Technoculture 1050A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tumblr, New Media, Smartphone

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 1050A/B
• Professor: Norma Coates

Document Summary

Part 1: fandom: fandom: fans are active audiences, fandom only last couple of decades seen as deviant and feminized, now seen as important and significant part of culture, ex. Part 2: new media: used to characterize and discuss media in new digital era, all media are new some point all media were once new media. Important to ask what is new to society from new media at the moment: all new media are disruptive of business, accessing content, interacting with other people, of thinking about the world etc, ex. Phonograph (record player) edison envisioned many uses of phonograph. User controlled: new media companies differentiated from old media companies, old media trying to become into new media or digital companies, led to wage of mergers. Internet era differs from broadcast era: broadcast era = serious, sense of national or corporate self-importance, corporate of government control. Internet era = more playful, freedom, sharing, liberation from the past: technology is sometimes transitional, ex.