COM CM 380 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Understanding Media, Interaction, Mobile Phone
12 Oct 2018
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In the digital era, distance is barely limited because communication is immediate now. In the social sense, there"s still a distance. It"s different communicating with someone in person and over social media: credibility: In the oral tradition, you tend to know others" credibility more. But information that"s hard to access is rare and more valuable. In the olden days, everything was handwritten and getting copies was expensive - so information was extremely valuable. Implications of convergence (these changes affect 8 areas): media organization, before convergence, media content was created and published by centralized media organizations. 4: digital and online media have blurred lines between interpersonal and mass communication, blog: short for weblog; a website where people post journal or diary entries arranged chronologically. It"s mass communication because it reaches a wide audience, but audience can interact and to post comments they must reveal their names - so it"s not mass comm.
