virtual space and convergences (where are you when you are on your mobile phone?)
consumer/prosumer power
A 'revolution'?
dynamic global and regional media economies
a national media economy
media which mix it all up (cross platform, multi-modes)
media which cross huge space instantaneously (sky, sea)
wearable communicative devices which converge technologies
consumer technologies, digitally converged homes, new user practices
narrowcast/niches
participation and power in a growing set of users
Our course textbook's theoretical and polemical approaches:
describes technology innovation
indicates global nature of systems
looks at move from 'audiences and texts' to users, uses and practices
political economy
argues for the agency of citizen-consumer
Tutorial 1
The first tutorial provided an opportunity for the students to get to know one another and the tutor, Tina Bettels. The principal exercise in this class was to complete a digital skills survey. Upon completion, the class discussed required skills and issues that may need to be addressed for the future media environment. Two key social networking sites, MySpace and Facebook, were also discussed in relation to their aesthetic, functional, content and privacy attributes.
Required reading for this tutorial covered the basics concepts of technology, including definitions, the explanation of how the word was derived and listing various derisions. The textbook chapter looked at technology as a way of being and thinking and at technology as a thing itself.
