Digital Media and Society
Final exam study
Digital Media and Society
Week 1
What this class is about… * Humans exchanging meaning * Through messages, by innovating using devices originally intended for corporate and government data management... computers * The debates about emerging media * How these debates are important to you profession development * You are a… knowledge worker
Field labels * New communication technology * New media * Digital media
Article: how is work changing?
Digital
* Information in a binary electronic form * Manipulable * Digital information is easily changeable and adaptable at all stages of creation, storage, delivery and use * Networkable * Digital information can be shared and exchanged between large numbers of users simultaneously, and across enormous distances * Dense * Very large amount of digital information can be stored in small physical spaces (e.g. USB flash disks) or on network servers * Compressible * The amount of capacity that digital information takes up on any network can be reduced dramatically through compression and decompressed when needed * Impartial * Digital information carried across networks is indifferent to what forms it represents, who owns or created them, or how they are used
Information versus communication
Information
* Any recognisable pattern in the perceivers environment * A collection of symbols, which combined may communicate a message (e.g. 000)
Communication
* Information in a context which creates meaning * Broadly, all the procedures by which one mind can affect another (e.g. in case of an emergency call 000)
Communication definitions * Source-centred * Receiver-centred * Bilateral * Shared meaning
Technology
* Technique * Mechanics, electronics or science for industry * Industry-useful work, diligence to achieve * Ology * The study of a
Digital Media and Society
Week 1
What this class is about… * Humans exchanging meaning * Through messages, by innovating using devices originally intended for corporate and government data management... computers * The debates about emerging media * How these debates are important to you profession development * You are a… knowledge worker
Field labels * New communication technology * New media * Digital media
Article: how is work changing?
Digital
* Information in a binary electronic form * Manipulable * Digital information is easily changeable and adaptable at all stages of creation, storage, delivery and use * Networkable * Digital information can be shared and exchanged between large numbers of users simultaneously, and across enormous distances * Dense * Very large amount of digital information can be stored in small physical spaces (e.g. USB flash disks) or on network servers * Compressible * The amount of capacity that digital information takes up on any network can be reduced dramatically through compression and decompressed when needed * Impartial * Digital information carried across networks is indifferent to what forms it represents, who owns or created them, or how they are used
Information versus communication
Information
* Any recognisable pattern in the perceivers environment * A collection of symbols, which combined may communicate a message (e.g. 000)
Communication
* Information in a context which creates meaning * Broadly, all the procedures by which one mind can affect another (e.g. in case of an emergency call 000)
Communication definitions * Source-centred * Receiver-centred * Bilateral * Shared meaning
Technology
* Technique * Mechanics, electronics or science for industry * Industry-useful work, diligence to achieve * Ology * The study of a