CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ned Ludd, Empiricism, Cyber-Ethnography

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

Document Summary

What to believe: the hype of the counter-hype. com crash: rapid devaluation of the stock prices in technology companies in late 2000 and. The empowering nature of being digital meant that like a force of nature, the digital age cannot be denied or stopped and that it has four very powerful qualities that will result in its ultimate triumph: Decentralizing and globalizing: when digital media decouples production and removes or reduces the necessity of being co-present in order to coordinate activities. Harmonizing: harmonizing aspect of digital media when an internet meme such as a viral video becomes a phenomenon across many demographics. Empowering: yet to be seen in digital media. Optimism and predictions of transformation are widespread in discussions of new. Media: the development of the internet could potentially lead to the death of other technologies of digital media (ex. televisions)