The chapter title’s question and quotation marks try to suggest a deep scepticism about the idea that ‘new media’ have totally transformed a deeply embedded set of cultural power structures familiarities. Yet there are signs that they are changing the world in substantial ways. You’ll find here a discussion of the major histories, figures and debates that shape this hotly contested part of contemporary media, and media studies. The chapter is organised under these headings:
- ‘Newness’ and histories
This includes work on UGC (User Generated Content) which is also explored in Chapter 14 (From ‘audiences’ to ‘users’), as well as via a special Case Study on this website: UGC, Social Media and the BBC
- Academic approaches
- Openness, collaboration and ‘users’
- ‘The long tail’
- Digital copies and the ‘enclosure’ of information
- New media, old metaphors
- ‘New media’, vanishing resources
Chapter Links
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/literacy/moby-what-1.html?play
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pouCAOPfYg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
http://www.onasia.com/content/story.aspx?storyID=669&page=1
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cluetrain_Manifesto
http://www.shirky.com/bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Editing_model
http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxy-TxCXH6Y
http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/will-nanotechnology-help-or-hurt-our-environment/
http://www.theyoungandthedigital.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/susanwatts/
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