New Media Challenges 5-2-2019
Lecture 1: Introduction
Title of the course:
New media challenges versus new media challenges.
Objectives:
In this course, we will:
- Define, describe, and discuss important new challenges in media, the public and the
individual.
- Take a theory- and evidence- based approach to address these issues.
- Focus on normative and ethical aspects of new developments/technological
possibilities.
Changes in the media landscape:
- What are the changes that we have seen happening the last decade?
- How we entertain ourselves.
- How we inform ourselves.
- How we interact.
- How we consume.
- …
Quiztime:
What is your most important source to get news from?/ What do you think is your parents most
important source for news?
- Mentimeter poll: www.menti.com
Changes in the media landscape:
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, Trends in media and media-use:
- From push to pull: consumers choosing from large offering of media content (youtube,
on demand, Blendle).
- Dissolving media boundaries: browsing internet on phone, listen radio on laptop.
- Increasing interactivity: (online multiplayer games, chat functions on webpages).
- Content creation by “consumers”: Social Media (writing reviews, blogs, vlogs,
Instagram, Facebook).
- More?
- Wat are the new challenges that we face in our social life that are associated with these
trends?
• www.menti.com
people involved in the course:
- Martin Tanis (setting the scene).
• Changing media landscape.
• Utopian of dystopian views of (mediated) future.
- Giulia Ranzini (privacy).
• What is privacy?
• How does this relate to sharing of information?
• What is the privacy paradox?
• Are we approaching a surveillance economy?
- Ivar Vermeulen (the age of the platform).
• Social media and the horizontal revolution.
o What is so special about the (interactive) Web2.0?
o How did “2.0” change relationships between organizations and users?
o How do organizations adjust?
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Lecture 1: Introduction
Title of the course:
New media challenges versus new media challenges.
Objectives:
In this course, we will:
- Define, describe, and discuss important new challenges in media, the public and the
individual.
- Take a theory- and evidence- based approach to address these issues.
- Focus on normative and ethical aspects of new developments/technological
possibilities.
Changes in the media landscape:
- What are the changes that we have seen happening the last decade?
- How we entertain ourselves.
- How we inform ourselves.
- How we interact.
- How we consume.
- …
Quiztime:
What is your most important source to get news from?/ What do you think is your parents most
important source for news?
- Mentimeter poll: www.menti.com
Changes in the media landscape:
1
, Trends in media and media-use:
- From push to pull: consumers choosing from large offering of media content (youtube,
on demand, Blendle).
- Dissolving media boundaries: browsing internet on phone, listen radio on laptop.
- Increasing interactivity: (online multiplayer games, chat functions on webpages).
- Content creation by “consumers”: Social Media (writing reviews, blogs, vlogs,
Instagram, Facebook).
- More?
- Wat are the new challenges that we face in our social life that are associated with these
trends?
• www.menti.com
people involved in the course:
- Martin Tanis (setting the scene).
• Changing media landscape.
• Utopian of dystopian views of (mediated) future.
- Giulia Ranzini (privacy).
• What is privacy?
• How does this relate to sharing of information?
• What is the privacy paradox?
• Are we approaching a surveillance economy?
- Ivar Vermeulen (the age of the platform).
• Social media and the horizontal revolution.
o What is so special about the (interactive) Web2.0?
o How did “2.0” change relationships between organizations and users?
o How do organizations adjust?
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