MDSB61H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Auteur Theory, Low Culture, Media Consumption
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Using exclusively technical criteria, one could say digital media are anything that uses a digital mode of communication including, television, computers, cellphones and video games. The key issues is not that they are new media forms in some dramatic break from the past, but rather they are new ways of configuring issues of production, consumption and distribution of media. The four relationships can be characterized as sharing, socializing, communicating and interacting. Sharing the notion of sharing refers to the ways in which digital media have transformed how people share the products of their (media) labor. Socializing the way through which culture is enacted and community constructed. Digital media function is to create ne ways for people to socialize. Communicating at the heart of all human experiences (belongs to the field of mass communication) Culture is only understood through acts of communication and communication is only possible through cultural means. Communicating is now being reworked through the idea of mobility.
