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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Levinson: Framing New Media

Levinson – New New Media
 Old Media – Printing Press, television and Radio.
-        Audiences can receive media,
o   But they can only consume
o   They can’t publish.

New media – allows for publication.
-        New Media – Users have some ability to produce – Amazon - Apple
-        New New Media – Users have ability to instantaneously self-publish.
o   Blogs – Websites
o    
Old Media – information is determined at he top
-        by just a few gate keepers.

Social Media – Not necessarily new.
-        Print and Broadcasting have social media components.
o   No unique enough to differentiate social from old media.

Guiding principles of New Media:
-        Every consumer is a producer – the Central Theme.
-        You get what you don’t pay for.
o   NN Media is free to consumer/producer.
-        Competitive and mutually catalytic.
o   Sites benefit from each other.
-        Platforms run under someone else’s control.
-        Search engines and E-Mails are critical to NN media.
o   But they are not NN media.

NN Media
-        Gives control to users when they consume material.
o   Freedom from scheduled distributions

Speed and evolution of NN Media:
- Hardware and Software change so fast it is literally impossible to keep completely current.



Levinson, P. (2012). New New Media. Boston: Pearson.

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