Lecture 3 Summary

Lecture 3....

This Lecture was based around media and the various forms of medium which surrounds it. The lecture started out with the meaning of media and its relation to communication. interesting points that were notes in the lecture notes included:

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   The basic idea to understand is that the kind of communication you can use is determined a lot by the medium of commuication you are dealing with.


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   That the 'news media' or 'mass media' is only one type of media. Through new commuication technologies we now have new forms of media such as the internet.

These points were interesting to me, hence the reason to re-state them. Along with the information on Media and its definition, the emergence of New Media, the Internet and Cyber Cultural Studies were other topics that was covered in the lecture. With the internet beginning in the early 1990s, its amazing to see the growth, seriousness and dependance on the internet in today's society. Another intersting point;

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   Critical cyberculture studies unfolds and explores the stories we tell about social, cultural and economic interactions online. For example, we use the terms and metaphors such as 'surf the net' to make it more approachable for those who know nothing about it.

Interesting once again this lecture....