Media+and+Society

12/4/11 - The internet. Is a BIG thing! We will discuss how the internet has changed the face of media in the last 15 odd years (in your lifetime basically!). There are lots of ways into scholarship by discussing things internet (eg the future of media industries,development of a medium, changing audience consumption/production patterns, media and society). Here are some discussion prompts about the internet and society. Please look at them and be prepared to discuss and start writing up some notes on the first tutorial next term **(May 3rd)** Happy holidays! Watch this fabulous thing about the internet and democracy below - You'll need the animation cos his accent is pretty hard to get! Compare it with the thoughts that Nick Brace had, prompted by the Wikileaks saga Related information in this fabulous infographic about censorship and the internet and the other side of the coin where the internet has been made a basic right in some countries media type="youtube" key="Uk8x3V-sUgU?rel=0" height="390" width="640"

Here's a talk Russell Brown gave in Sept 2009 about how audiences are changing

Here's some stuff about Copyright and the digital age

New Media timeline. Here's 2010 information - but you can go back to 1969!

Here's an up-to-date survey of New Zealand teenagers about how they are using the media and issues around censorship

Link to the [|New Zealand Censorship] office and their resources for students.

=Media and Society= This is a very open question that allows you to focus on the relationship between the media and society (pretty obvious huh!). Check out the assessment (marking) schedule from last years' exam - as it covers the kinds of things people discussed in every question and what the markers wanted to see.

Commonly discussed topics include: censorship, violence in the media, the connection between genre and society, dependence on media for messages about our world, media diversity/freedom of speech (or lack of it), media audiences, the creation of national and global identities.

Let's think about: Media audience theory - how audiences interact with the media. Try looking [|here] for a short background on audience theory. [|This link] has a slightly more complex take on it - and I'd like to hear what you have to say about it in light of the fact that rapid developments in media will change theories about audiences and their interaction with the media.

One of the phrases that's been coined for the way the study of the media is heading (they are calling it media 2.0) is 'we' media. This is to emphasise the collaborative nature of media in the internet age (this includes mash-ups, re-mixes and other forms of re- inventing stuff that has been previously made by someone other than yourself). When media audiences are media producers as well it slightly complicates the idea of audience theory - what do YOU think about that? (The term for this is produsage Producer + User)

Digitisation - means that the media is becoming more mobile anywhere/anytime Participation- people are able to produce and use media Commercialisation - monetizing the media becomes more difficult where people are making their own (eg Charlie bit me on You Tube has millions of hits but has made no money). Convergance - of platforms and of media forms
 * Futures words to do with how the media is changing and audiences are changing with them:**