Lesson 3 (week 42) (used completely)

Introduction to Media Change- Convergence, Mediamorphosis and Remediation
(Digital Cultures Explained)

 Lecture:

What is Digital Culture?

To introduce the lesson we discussed the background of digital culture and how it came about. Additionally we talked about why it would be good to study this subject.

We later came on to the background and history of the subject where we were introduced to a man who is very influential to the history of digtal cultures; Raymond Williams.

“the best that has been thought and written in the world”—is in danger, or is indeed already “lost,” because of widespread popular education, popular communications systems, and what is often called “mass society.”

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Seminar: 

Mobile phone and video game obsession... addicted?!  

Not only is new technology expensive, it can also be addictive. Just like a person can become addicted to some type of food, cigarettes or drugs a person can be addicted to a game.

That’s almost the aim of the inventors and manufactures; they make a video game so    ‘more-ish’ that it becomes addictive. A person getting addicted to a game is more likely to happen to a younger person that is more easily influenced. However it can happen to anyone.

The same applies for a phone. Through word of mouth people have communicated and spread the news that the ‘Blackberry’ is the new in think, it has been said that in one college over 50% of the students owned or have owned a Blackberry phone.

As though the phone has attached itself to the teenage body it is rare that a teen would leave there phone at home or go for a day out without it. I have recently found myself surrounded by the sound of ‘pinging’ with groups of young people collectively looking at their phones, all wondering who it was that got the instant message.

What’s so good about it?

Young people feel connected. This consumer product seems to, alongside the iphone, taken over. The iphone in my opinion leans a little more towards the older generation. Video games on the other hand I would say are for all ages. As there is so much to choose from anyone can enjoy a video game, no matter their gaming skills.

Recently the video game ‘Call of Duty’ has taken over the minds of men particularly young boys. I was actually surprised to hear (on facebook) that a make aged 18 missed a date with his girlfriend as he forgot and spent the day playing ‘Call of Duty, what makes it worse is that she was left out so much as a phone call or a text. Brainwashed!