Issues: Institutions and Audiences

Digitality: Can be regulated on or off system which pulse through bytes. It is a new way of encoding information.



Interactivity – new ways of streaming information– compressing it through :- air (satellites), isdn cable (broadband) telephone cable, or cable cable enabling to send more than one form of data at once– Busiest on saturday morning as everyone uses it and only holds so much information– Can interact with each other– Can give and receive responses.



Hypertextuality– organisation in text– no longer linear– can jump from a-b to a-t– eg. difference from video to dvd– Able to jump from one text to another



Dispersal– how information is shared and communicated– increases the market



Vertuality– like iconography– how real something is– how representative it is– What is real?– Mimicking and re presenting the world



Convergence– technology merging into one new technology eg ipod with pictures– Relates to size.other aspects of technology to consider...



Audience – how does it use technology? How do they use it? Does it change the way they use it? Has it changed over time? Has it developed after consumer needs? Who has access to this information?



Regulation and control – is there any control over the technology we use? Who controls it? Should there be any control? Copyright? Is it realistically possible to control things? What impact is there on the government?



Ownership – who owns the technology? Does that make a difference? How do they compete?