1. Critically Thinking about Digital Media

2. Basic Media History Gutenburg Movable type, c. 1439 (before? … ) Newspapers / magazines Telegraph (1844) / telephone (1876) / photograph (1839) Radio (1895) / television (1800s / early 1900s) / cable (1940s) / satellite (1960s) Vacuum tubes / transistors / integrated circuits / computers

3. New media are associated with… A shift from modernity to postmodernity Intensifying globalization processes A replacement (in the West) of an industrial age of manufacturing by a post-industrial information age A decentring of established and centralized geo-political orders

4. How are the media changing? Institutions Constant flux of ‘new media’ Ideological connotations of ‘the new’ Inclusive – ‘interactive media’ … ‘computer mediated communication’ … virtual reality … non-linear communication …

5. Discussion How is each made? Why is each made? How is each distributed? What role do you have in the communication process? How would these products be different if you lived in –China? – Saudi Arabia? -Cuba?

6. Our reading … Convergence UGC Citizen journalism ‘fan films’ ‘Old media’ and ‘new media’ ‘Science’ Art (design)

7. Communication Context Theories and Models (paradigm) Relationships and Power Economics Nature and Nurture How can you evaluate a system in which you are intricately involved?

8. Shannon’s (1948) Model

9. Mediated Communication

10. Interactive Communication

11. A Transactional Model

12. Analysis of media content Newspapers Magazines Tabloids Blogs Video games Radio programming TV programming Online video (YouTube, Hulu, etc.)

13. Assumptions You already have done some media analysis Being critical stand back from the hype and investigate the nature of change Not reduce everything to being capitalist scams Not assume everything has changed; not assume nothing has changed So why are we doing what we are…

14. Social behavior Belonging Achieving success Receiving Awards Fear Isolation Amusement And… ?