Mass Media: The New Media
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- Created on: 15-06-16 14:23
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2. What does "more access to high culture" mean?
- everyone now has access to huge amounts of information and high culture which were formally limited to educational elites
- new media opened up new channels for communication and interaction, enhancing/supplementing existing face to face interactions, achieved in following ways: alternative identities, people stay in touch via email when away, social networking lost conn
- now hundreds of digital, cable and satellite TV channels, websites and online newspapers for people to choose from
3. What does "no real increase in consumer choice" mean?
- poorer quality media content with dumbing down to attract large audiences, celebrity culture replaces serious programming, endless repeats
- not everyone has access to new media - digital divide between those who can and can't afford the infrastructure to support access to pay to view satellite channels, computers and internet
- new media particularly satellite TV has led to the westernisation of other cultures
4. What does "the world becomes a global village" mean?
- electronic mass media has collapsed space and time barriers in human communication - the way electronic media enables people to interact on a global scale means the world has become like one village or community
- interactive digital, TV, blogging, video and photo sharing websites and social networking sites all give consumers more opportunity to participate in the production of media content
- everyone now has access to huge amounts of information and high culture which were formally limited to educational elites
5. What does "more media user participation" mean?
- electronic mass media has collapsed space and time barriers in human communication - the way electronic media enables people to interact on a global scale means the world has become like one village or community
- interactive digital, TV, blogging, video and photo sharing websites and social networking sites all give consumers more opportunity to participate in the production of media content
- everyone now has access to huge amounts of information and high culture which were formally limited to educational elites
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