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Terry Flew Concepts Of New Media | Assignment

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1TERRY FLEW CONCEPTS OF NEW MEDIANew Media entail different forms of media that are contrasted with old media forms like radio, television and print media. The difference between these media forms and the old one is based on their interactive process and digital generation that allows users to access different types of information at the same time.1New media allows an interactive feedback that makes the user a participant at the same time. Twenty concepts have been advanced to assist in understanding contemporary media and communication.2 This essay discusses three concepts of new media; mobile media, hacking and the Mobile MediaMobile phones are the most distributed ICT devices that are easily accessible everywhere. The international Telecommunications Union estimated 5.981 billion mobile phonesby 2011, a number which must have almost doubled today. Today, mobile media is the leading communication tool since 80% of the world’s population has a mobile phone.3 The use of these devices has evolved from voice carriage and text messaging to becoming a full media allowing users to access music, videos, games, photographs and internet from one single device.4 This new features plus the rise of tablet devices have made mobile phones the most powerful media ever.Today mobile media has become part of daily life where users enjoy the cloud based technology advantages that are attached to them allowing users to either download ort stream 1 DeFleur, Everette, E Dennis, and L. Melvin, Understanding media in the digital age : connections for communication, society, and culture. (New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2010),.122 Flew, Terry, New Media, (4th. Oxford Univeristy Press, 2014) 24.3 Ibid, 284 Graham, M. , "Time machines and virtual portals: The spatialities of the digital divide." Progress in Development Studies 11 (3): 211-227(2011), 215.
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2content.5 This has changed the world of communication technology since people can access and use media devices anywhere around the world. This technology seems to be evolving every day with the rise of applications which are being created to paly different features on the new form ofmedia.6With this, mobile media has become part of daily life since they are being used to carry out every activity of people’s lives. In their near future, the media will be designed to read and control human functions apart from using it as communication tool.HackingHacking entail all activities that revolve around programming and design of software for different purposes. Hacking offers both positive and negative implications, where positive implications entail hackers working together to improve each other’s content for better features in their programs7. On the other hand, negative hacking effects on privacy, surveillance and computer security. Instances of leaking of sensitive information like WikiLeaks is a breach of national and private security.8 This presents both benefits and threats to security and privacy to information. Hacking threatens to expose of any new technology and at the same time seek to increase high levels of transparency in different environments.A hacker’s world entail creating new technologies and algorithms that can keep information more secure or uncover secrets that may have been hidden from the general public. The rise of social media sites enables hackers to easily interact and at the same time share content with their followers.9 The creation of cyberspace has led to new forms of crime that are 5 Ibid, 16.6Ibid, 297 Ibid, 248 Ibid, 220. 9 Halpern, D., and J. Gibbs., "Social media as a catalyst for online deliberation? Exploring the affordances of Facebook and YouTube for political expression." Computers in Human Behavior 1159-1166, (2013), 1161.
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