Mediamagconf j mcd

ONLINE MEDIA, CLEGGMANIA AND THE

COWELL FACTOR

Convergence

“We’re really talking about a converged interactive media industry. There’s an increasing interplay between gaming, online, TV and films – it’s all coming together.”

Jon Kingsbury, NESTA, 2010

More interactive – yes

But also more democratic?

Media 2.0

Lots of DIFFERENT IDEAS on this

Democracy or Dumbing Down?

People to read ..

David Gauntlett

Sonia Livingstone

David Buckingham

Annette Hill

Michael Wesch

Dan Gillmor

Graeme Turner

Time for your “twitches”

For A Level Media …

Read all the different ideas

Pick your examples

Apply the reading to the examples

Weigh up the debate

Develop an informed, academic view.