new media
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New Media
Media & Culture
improving, educational
entertainment, pleasure, desire
Profit
ideology & power
Revolutiondigital
CommunityPoliticsIdentity
from analog to digital
the computer
media convergence
interactivity
virtual
demassification
time/space compression
The death of ‘old’ media
The end of real communities
The disintegration of identity
Undermining the integrity of the public sphere and political process.
‘End the denial. Get over it, get on with it, figure it out. Or end up in the dustbin of history with sheet music publishers.’
Quoted in Des Freedman (2006) ‘Internet transformations: ‘old’ media resilience in the ‘new’ media revolution’ in Curran et al
Hours per person per year using consumer mediaTV N/paper m/zines Pay TV
Internet
1996 988 92 125 575 8
2001 815 177 119 846 134
2006 726 169 112 892 213
Quoted in Des Freedman (2006) ‘Internet transformations: ‘old’ media resilience in the ‘new’ media revolution’ in Curran et al
Des Freedman (2006) ‘Internet transformations: ‘old’ media resilience in the ‘new’ media revolution’ in Curran et al
Have reports of the death of old media have been greatly exaggerated?
the cost of internet access may be prohibitive
‘old media’ still the most effective way for advertisers to reach a mass audience
The form may change. The content may be familiar.
Postmodern virtualities
a second media agechallenge to the dominant ways of seeing the world
new virtual communities
Poster, Mark ‘Postmodern Virtualities’ in Robert C. Allen and Annette Hill (2004) The Television Studies Reader (London: Routledge)
communities, territory, ‘the people’
imagined communitiesThe local community
The national community
The virtual community
News: a grand narrative?
the most authoritative source of public information
assumption of objectivity
professional codes and practices
“... so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night.
"It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism”
Andrew Marr, BBC journalist on blogging
News organisations face competition
Commercial competition
Authorial legitimacy
Students at the UCL occupation using social networking sites
http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23dayx2
Postmodern virtualities
bidirectional media
proliferation of ‘little narratives’
new realitiesPoster, Mark ‘Postmodern Virtualities’ in Robert C. Allen and Annette Hill (2004) The Television Studies Reader (London: Routledge)
A few speculative thoughts on the impact of ‘new media’
De-territorialized forms of community
Decentralised forms of organisation
Multi-perspectives instead of objectivity
The people (nation state/party) gives way to the multitude
Historical Warning
New media in old times
partisans and worker correspondents
relatively cheap to produce a newspaper
campaigning style
Radical press posed a threat to the power structure
Power will try to reassert itself
In 1800s the government imposed a heavy stamp duty (tax) on the press
Strict libel laws
Death of the radical press brought about by commercialisation and industrialisation of the press
James Curran and Jean Seaton, Power Without Responsibility: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain
