The final concept map covers the concept of new media, interactive media, and related issues. In addition, how the concepts are associated with each other has been illustrated.
New media concept map
Posts Tagged ‘New media’
New Media Concept Map: the final map
Posted in Introduction and Theoretical Foundations of New Media, tagged Concept map, IFI7101, IMKE, New media on November 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Lesson 1: New media: Culture and technology
Posted in Introduction and Theoretical Foundations of New Media, tagged Concept map, Cultural software, IFI7101, IMKE, New media on September 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The purpose of posts under this category is to provide a general understanding around the concept of new media by means of concept maps. Each lesson would illustrate main questions and try to answer them with a concept map. Concept map is a graphical tool to represent various concepts of knowledge and show the relationships and instances of the concepts. The concept maps generated in this blog is based on the Introduction and Theoretical Foundations of New Media course content.
The first concept map aims to answer the following questions:
- What is new media?
- What characterizes new media?
- New media: a technology or culture?
This concept map tries to describe the characteristics of new media, its principles, and influences on society, economy and culture. By having a quick look on this concept; I believe there are lots of factors characterize new media. The relationship it has with various types of media like traditional media, digital media, interactive media, hyper media and so on, would affect the understanding toward new media. One of the important features is the concept of ‘cultural software’ which has been generated by interaction of culture and technology! Look at the concept map to see how they are related and associated with each other:
Interactive Media 