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Information
- Information can be defined as a
Information Society
Some technological developments
Internet
What is the Internet? The Internet is the largest
Penetration in Malaysia
YEAR
Users
Population
% Pen.
Usage Source
2000
3,700,000
24,645,600
15.0 %
ITU
2005
10,040,000
26,500,699
37.9 %
C.I.Almanac
2006
11,016,000
28,294,120
38.9 %
ITU
2007
13,528,200
28,294,120
47.8 %
MCMC
2008
15,868,000
25,274,133
62.8 %
MCMC
2009
16,902,600
25,715,819
65.7 %
ITU
2010
16,902,600
26,160,256
64.6 %
ITU
http://www.internetworldstats.com/asia/my.htm
New Media?
What is new?
Digital Media
Lister et al. (2009): 4 attributes
1) Media texts become de-linked from particular media.
- read books on the net.
2) Information can be compressed and fit in every small spaces.
- USB flash drive (1 Gig = 4,500 books [200 pages], 1 terabyte = 4.5
million books!)
3) Access to the data can be very fast and also that it does not have to
be linear.
4) Data can be manipulated in unimaginably ways in the analogue
media age.
Online Media
Is a direct reference to the Internet.
Priotizes the element of connectivity, or the ways in which they
New Media
NEW signifies the openness & struggle between ideas, users,
Communication Technology:
Its Implications
Speed developments like email, cell phones, social networking
sites, video conferencing have allowed us to connect with each
other at breakneck speeds.
Accessibility with technology, messages can literally be
transmitted anywhere at any time.
Efficiency tehcnology has greatly impacted the efficiency of our
communicative acts.
Implications
Creating a possibilities for nonphysical human
interaction
Isolation vs connectedness hyphothesis
Isolation
- Kraut et al. (1998) Internet might be a social
technology that reduces social involvement and
psychological well-being (p. 1017)
Implications..
Connectedness
- Franzen
(2007)
research in Switzerland
suggest that internet use
does not decrease social
involvement.
- Internet is an effective
tool to mobilize people in
social
movement
(Brunsting & Postmes,
2002)
The End