Some authors view technological change
regarding new media as "an incremental process, in which the latest
innovations tend to be variations or elaborations of existing systems and
infrastructures, rather than radical departures." There are also several
new media research that refers to principles of mediamorphosis and diffusion of
innovations to explain the emergence of the new media concentration within the
communication discipline. Moreover, some scholars take note of “the increased
control of new media content, ownership, and policy debates by conventional
mass media industries.” If so, is media studies(1.0) really dead and alive?
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Media Studies(1.0), dead and alive?
Without question, new media have clearly different characteristic
from conventional medial. I think, however, the tools for new media studies
should not be designed “to address an entirely different landscape” from conventional media. There seems to be a tendency to cut new media off from traditional
media in many ways. As lots of new media studies argue that new media is
replacing the previously powerful media industries, focusing on the creativity
and power of previously marginalized people and groups, I am wondering they
seem to overvalue the influence of new media on contemporary society.
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