Neophiliacs
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- Created on: 02-10-17 20:06
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- Neophiliacs
- Curran and Seaton
- Two debates about new media
- Neophiliacs
- New Media is beneficial for society
- Cultural Pessimists
- New Media is detrimental to society
- Neophiliacs
- Two debates about new media
- Increased consumer choice
- Increased convergence and interactivity have increased our range of choices
- e.g. Hundreds of TV channels
- Wide range of how to listen to music e.g. CD, radio, iPhone, Spotify
- Pluralists believe that the competition between diversity of media will improve the quality of media output
- Increased convergence and interactivity have increased our range of choices
- An E-commerce Revolution
- The internet has created this revolution
- E-retailers such as Amazon have had great success
- However, they have undermined high street and market sellers
- Most companies now have their own websites
- Resulted in more choice for consumers as it increased competition
- Revitalising Democracy
- New Media offers the opportunity to acquire more info
- Play an active role in democracy
- Make politicians more accountable
- The internet can report what the big media companies do not
- The internet is a public sphere and we can look at alternative viewpoints
- Itzoe
- The internet is a "loose and archaic confederation of millions of users around the world who communicate in perhaps the freest forum of speech in history"
- Monitor illegal or immoral activities of big businesses
- Harness mass support for causes
- e.g. Make Poverty History
- Co-ordinate protests and activists
- New Media to bypass press
- Jeremy Corbyn on social media 2017
- New Media offers the opportunity to acquire more info
- Hacktivists
- Rebellious use of computers and computer networks
- Promote a political agenda or social change
- The ends are often related to free speech, human rights or freedom of information movements
- Rebellious use of computers and computer networks
- Weaknesses
- Hacktivism
- Is it positive or just terrorism?
- Causes unemployent
- Most likely Working Class
- Undermining local businesses
- Cyber-bullying
- Insecure nature of New Media
- Choice
- Emphasises digital divide
- New Media can be equally biased
- Hacktivism
- Curran and Seaton
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