The Historical Content (1)- The Early History of Digital Media
(Thinking about Media Change)
(Thinking about Media Change)
The World Wide Web
is a global information medium that is accessed via the internet on the computer. Launched in 1990 this system of interlinked documents which has become a world of knowledge. The terrific idea of a web browser allows people to quickly and easily find what they are looking for.
Question: Where would we be without the internet
today?
Many would see the world at a loss without the internet today, as it is so important and influential to so many peoples lives. Billions of people use the internet everyday day; at home, at work, in education centers (such as college or universities), people even carry the internet around ion their pockets and use it on their phones.
The internet can be described as a revelation, greatly altering the way in which the human race do many things, including communication between one another.
Many would see the world at a loss without the internet today, as it is so important and influential to so many peoples lives. Billions of people use the internet everyday day; at home, at work, in education centers (such as college or universities), people even carry the internet around ion their pockets and use it on their phones.
The internet can be described as a revelation, greatly altering the way in which the human race do many things, including communication between one another.
Question: What would come of the world if the internet was taken away?
If the internet were to be taken away from people in todays society, there would be uproar. Dependent on the internet, people of today that have it would be lost without it.
The internet is not only a source of education but also a factor of entetainment. With so many different type of websites int the net its no wonder people have been labelled as 'addiceted' to 'surfing the web'.
Social networking sites such as ms, facebook and twitter have proved to be more popular than sites that provide information for academic enhancement.
Using the internet has become a way of life, almost automatically people wake up int he morning and one of the first things they do is use the net, for some it comes even before brushing their teeth!
To check the weather, to see whetther or not there traffic, to listen to the radio. For many people the internet falls into their daily routine- some even feel like they couldnt live with out it.
Survey:
For this weeks lecture I decided to do a simple survey asking 12 students at random from the University lounge area whether or not they could go a whole day with out any technology
1 Question Interview:
Myself: Do you think you could give up using the internet... forever?
Student: I actually don't think I could go the week without using the internet, let alone my entire life. It's
abnormal. I just have to use facebook or update twitter... and how am I suppost to do
extended research for my subject without google!
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Lecture:
As an introduction to the lesson we looked at the 'knowledge machine' an early model of what would later become the computer and internet. Created in 1934, this is an aspect that helped start of the history of the Web.
Wide Web was known as another imitation of paper. It was a way of thinking out of the box. It belittles the idea of 'hypertext', another original idea that led to what we have today.
Hyper Text = basis of world wide web"escaping the prison of paper" Nelson's idea for 1960 onwards.
Ted Nelson is a socilologist and philosopher,prepared the world for the new idea revolving information technology. Nelson introduced the hyper text in 1963, this was alongside hypermedia.
Hypertext
"a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data nonsequentially"
Hypernedia
Hypertext
"a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data nonsequentially"
Hypernedia
"a system in which various forms of information, as data, text, graphics, video, and audio, are linked together by a hypertext program" .
Xanadu, 1960
The the first hypertext project, it was an improvement of the World Wide Web, saying claiming that 'todays' software simulates paper. The project came to life and was up and running by 1960.
Nelson belives that...
"A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds."
Nelson is important to the histor of media and the world wide web has he started of the revelotion and break away from paper to the web. He was the one who realsied that there was a gap in the market as well as change and time for something new.
Are all new media just building on old media?
After the seminar and lecture I came to the conclusion that in some respects the answer to the about question is yes, that people are comming out with media and technology that is just the updated version of old media, rather than completely new media being created. I think this is partly because people often stick to what they are fimular with rather than branching out and using something completely new. For example the xbox kinect. Its an updated version of the xbox with wireless controllers which was the updated version of a console connected to a controller.
On the other hand, technological wonders wii are completely new as they introduce the idea of exercise as well as a game which has been a good seller in its recent years of production.
When looking at this question more in terms of media I can see that the answer to the question leans more to yes rather than no, this is because media includes media types such as:
After the seminar and lecture I came to the conclusion that in some respects the answer to the about question is yes, that people are comming out with media and technology that is just the updated version of old media, rather than completely new media being created. I think this is partly because people often stick to what they are fimular with rather than branching out and using something completely new. For example the xbox kinect. Its an updated version of the xbox with wireless controllers which was the updated version of a console connected to a controller.
On the other hand, technological wonders wii are completely new as they introduce the idea of exercise as well as a game which has been a good seller in its recent years of production.
When looking at this question more in terms of media I can see that the answer to the question leans more to yes rather than no, this is because media includes media types such as:
video players > dvd players > blu ray dvd players
There is a continous pattern where the technology either gets samller or of better quality which definately classes as new media being built on top of old media.
Media is all very different now. Meida today is all interlinked, you can navigate between these links and different types of media using hyperlinks. These hyperlinks link different types of media that together are also known as multiledia, this includes, text, photos, videos, sound clips, illustration, animation ect.
How old media led to new media...
Wanting improvement
Social change
The need to update technology- making new things possible as well as quick& easier.
Modern society
People wanting to revolutionise
Wanting to be educated
Wanting more ways to communicate
Social change
The need to update technology- making new things possible as well as quick& easier.
Modern society
People wanting to revolutionise
Wanting to be educated
Wanting more ways to communicate
How it all started...
The printing press > moveable type
The telegraph > telephone
Recorded content: music > film
Radio signals > broadcastng radio broadcasting TV Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society; they are a challenge to it. New technology makes new things possible: put another way, when new technology appears, previously impossible things start occurring. If enough of those impossible things are important and happen in a bundle, quickly, the change becomes a revolution.
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The hallmark of revolution is that the goals of the revolutionaries cannot be constrained by the institutional structure of the existing society. As a result, either the revolutionaries are put down [sic], or some of those institutions are altered, replaced or destroyed.
Why call it 'New Media' ?
“In recent years the ‘newness’ of new media has attracted an increasing groundswell of rebellionagainst using the term at all"
Sue Thomas, 2006
As extra work before this weeks seminar I decided to do some background and research work. I chose a sameple of 12 students, again from the university lounge area and asked them...
whether or not they could go a whole day with out any technology...
&
would they find it easy living without ever being able to use technology again...
Results:
9/12 people said they could go a whole day without technology.
&
1/12 people said they would find it easy to live without techmology.
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Internet
(positives) (negatives)
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Educates (educational) Distraction
Informs Unlimited
Entertainment Bad websites
Interacting Incorrect information
Socialising Cost (computer, laptop or phone)
Communication Dangerous
Freedom of Speech Protection (children)
Expression
Unlimited
Quick, Easy, Simple
Above are some pros and cons of the internet as nothing is completely perfect. Looking at there pros and cons overall enable us to see just how much the net has influenced todays world.
This also shows that even thoguh the WWW (world wide web) has been enhanced and is now a form of new media, does not mean that all its problem have gone.
9/12 people said they could go a whole day without technology.
&
1/12 people said they would find it easy to live without techmology.
The results show just how much people, especially students, are linked to and dependent on technology, particually the ones that believe they cannot live without it.
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Internet
(positives) (negatives)
____________________________________________
Educates (educational) Distraction
Informs Unlimited
Entertainment Bad websites
Interacting Incorrect information
Socialising Cost (computer, laptop or phone)
Communication Dangerous
Freedom of Speech Protection (children)
Expression
Unlimited
Quick, Easy, Simple
Above are some pros and cons of the internet as nothing is completely perfect. Looking at there pros and cons overall enable us to see just how much the net has influenced todays world.
This also shows that even thoguh the WWW (world wide web) has been enhanced and is now a form of new media, does not mean that all its problem have gone.
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