The Impact of New/Digital Media (Tasks from slide)

What is the internet?
Media forms in the internet:— (List THREE sites for each media form)
-text documents: 
-—photographs
—-video
—-movies
-video games
—-audio recordings 
-computer programs

Penetration 
18.3 million households in the UK (70 per cent) had Internet access in 2009*. This is an increase of just under 2 million households (11 per cent) over the last year and 4 million households (28 per cent) since 2006. (National Statistics 2009) *This had risen to 87% in 2013.

The ‘Information Revolution
 The internet has been called:

— “the most important medium of the twentieth century” (Briggs and Burke 2005, 244)

 and:

— “an application that will usher in The Information Age” (Castells 1996, 328)

The Gutenberg Revolution

550 years ago, the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg meant that the number of books in existence rose from a few thousand to 20 million in just 25 years

This led to the Reformation, the Renaissance and the scientific revolution in which centuries-old modes of thinking were radically questioned

The Internet Revolution

—changed by the internet?

-—nature of information

—-communication

—-privacy

—-community

—-online safety

—-business

—-culture 

—-copyright