NEW AGE MEDIA by Stefan Aleksić. The evolution of media Changes: introduction of Broadband Internet and mobile devices Commercial vs. open source.

NEW AGE MEDIA

by Stefan Aleksić

The evolution of media

The evolution of media Changes: introduction of Broadband

Internet and mobile devices Commercial vs. open source

Raise of social media

Popularity of websites '95 - mid 2005 – on New group Internet users Media on 'Social media' Interconnection of competitors websites Commerce of Dotcoms the Volunteerism for the corporations

The spread of (dis)information

Speed vs. quality The extinction of research journalism -

how to obtain information Copy/paste journalists Int. Users - Internet literacy and language Media - manipulation Media - too much publicity given to SM

France

Internet privacy

EU Policies USA, Japan Patents vs. Pirates Enforced to use SM Soak-puppetry

Did you know that...

Experiment by Lisa Holt (1995)

… an average man eats 8 spiders each year while sleeping

Drunken Serbian tourist kills shark in Sharm-al-Sheikh

Nobel Prize - Literature 2011

Website → SM → IT Press → Wikipedia

→ TV→

Danilo Kis - the Encyclopedia of the Dead (1983)

While visiting Sweden, the narrator explores the Royal Library. There she discovers the celebrated Encyclopedia of the Dead- a massive collection of thousands of volumes chronicling in detail the lives of ordinary people who have died.

She finds the biography of her father and takes notes while reading it throughout the night. Fifty years of his life in Belgrade are summarized in only 5 or 6 pages yet amazingly nothing seems to be left out. No detail is too small - the first day he ever smoked a cigarette, an episode of food poisoning, a love letter.

The text is illustrated with a picture of her father and an odd flower. Late in life, he began painting floral patterns like the one depicted in the book. According to the Encyclopedia, his interest in painting paralleled the onset and progression of his cancer. In fact, the narrator learns that the flower in the book closely resembles the appearance of the sarcoma that claimed his life.

"What makes the Encyclopedia unique (apart from its being the only existing copy) is the way it depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes - the multitude of details that make up a human life." (p. 42). Everything is recorded concisely but eloquently. Although the Encyclopedia originated around 1789, it remains shrouded in mystery. Just who records the myriad details of the ordinary lives of innumerable people? How do they obtain all this information? Why does the Encyclopedia reside in Sweden?

Summary

More and more digitalisation Quantity & speed vs. quality of information Media ethics → 5W rule “Status”, “Thumb up”, “Like” or “Twitt” =

= addressing the public Privacy issues How much time do you spend on the Internet? How to communicate in 21st C.? Do SM have

alternative?

Who is it about?What happened?When did it take place?Where did it take place?Why did it happen?