Thursday, 11 October 2007

What do we mean by Media and Cyberculture?

I believe that we cant' find an accurate definition about what is media. On the other side there are some elements which can help us to define what is media. According to Dr. Gavin Stewart’s notes:

"Classic 20th century discourse on the media focuses our attention on broadcasting and the mass media. It analysized the 'media' in terms of producers of the media (e.g. institutions like the BBC), texts (e.g. TV Sit-coms) and audiences. This approach has meant that 'the media' have been defined as being synonymous with television, radio and newspapers etc. This approach quite rightly focuses on such issues as means of production, governance and regulation as important aspects of modern life." [ found at Blackboard Academic Suite]

In the same time as Dr. Stewart mentioned in his notes in the first lecture we have some questions rising through this approach and there are some gaps that they need to be filled.

Moreover, the rising of computer and internet technology and the study of Internet has lead us to enter a new era and the term "New Media"

I believe that we can't have a "correct" definition of Media and to be able to answer the question "what is media?". Moreover, i believe that the era of Media isn't an era that is not developing. Every day we have technological improvements which help us more in our lives but not to define "What is Media". I don't believe that we would be able to define specifically the term Media. On the other side we can study and learn from them important things such us the power of the Media, the limits of using them, the ethical questions that maybe rising by using media.

CYBERCULTURE
According to the notes Cyberculture "it can be thought of as the social and cultural effect of the interaction between humans and digital devices such as desktop computers, servers and mobile phones in a myriad of material, social, cultural and political contexts". [ found at Blackboard Academic Suite].
However it is not a simple subject....Lot of researchers have tried to approach it through different angles.
I believe that Cyberculture is not only about a computer or a network but a very interesting subject with roots to every science which is waiting from us to explore it.



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