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10-1: Identify the ways in which new media impact your life.

Video What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

Web The Impact of Social Media on Society

Examine new media’s effect on politics, business, cyber bullying, and privacy

 

10-2: Explain why the characteristics of the First and Second Media Ages are important to your study of communication.

Video The New Media's Coming of Age

What life was like before the internet and how it has really changed our business and culture.

Audio Italy's Berlusconi Discovers Social Media as a Campaign Tool

Italy’s Prime Minister race turns to Instagram to lure voters.

 

10-3: Describe the qualities of new media and how they influence communication.

Video Shift Happens: The Changing Media Landscape

Video includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology

 

10-4: Describe the characteristics of new media theory.

Video  Microsoft’s Concept 2020

How computers and other technology will look like in 2020.

 

10-5: Explain how identity is formed through new media and their relationship to communication.

Web Link The Online Identity Crisis

The struggle between wanting online privacy and data being collected by big companies to targeting consumers.

Video Adventures in Twitter Fiction

How twitter allows for storytelling

 

LO 10-6:  Examine how new media foster community.

Video   Connected but Alone

As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication — and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.

Audio Through the Internet, Gay Teens Connected to Larger Community

How the internet has allowed gay teens to connect with each other and build community.