New media art

New media is a less traditional version of media resulting from the digitization of almost everything. Compared to its predecessor, new media is instantaneous, interactive, and universally accessible. The largest aspect of new media is social media. It’s role in today’s media environment presents an interesting paradox. On one hand, social media is rather limiting. It is incredibly easy to tailor one’s online experience to their personal beliefs and perspective. At the same time, social media presents

Approach Culture and the Evolution of Mass Communication * Culture * can be narrowly associated with art – forms of expression such as music or painting that provide enlightenment or insight * can also be viewed as a broader category that includes the entire spectrum of ways that people express themselves at particular historical times * including art, beliefs, customs, games, technologies, traditions, and institutions * it also encompasses modes of communication

I was 18 when we moved to the United States from Cameroon in 2010. I had always known I wanted to be in journalism, yet had little knowledge of how the media worked or what being a journalist even entailed. I had a passion for telling stories, and zero experience or hope that I would someday be able to do so in a way that affects everyday people, and effects positive change. As far as I knew, journalism was the ruling government’s tool for communicating what it deemed fit for public knowledge, and

I always knew I wanted to be in Journalism. Growing, up in Cameroon, I had little knowledge of how the media worked or what being a journalist even entailed. I had a passion for telling stories, and zero experience or hope that I would someday be able to do so in a way that effects positive change. As far as I knew, journalism was the ruling government’s tool for communicating what it deemed fit for public knowledge, and stifling any information that remotely threatened the political status quo.

and the interactive media experience. Interactive media experience is a special multimedia presentation, that involved interactive media techniques and interactive media arts. Their final purposes are that creating a method of communication with perception by using presenting content such as text, games, animation, video, moving image and audio. In short, interactive media is a method of communication to circularly present a combinatorial information which output from the media and comes from the

Digital Media Participation: How Fans Interact Online is a short documentary about how fans show their support to their celebrity idols with the emergence of social media. Our group chose this topic because we notice how fans show their support by going to mall shows or by using certain hashtags on Twitter and make them trend worldwide. This documentary film aims to change the perspective people have on fans that they are cheap, desperate, and low class. With this interactivity and digitalization

to arrive on the scene of Diana’s death, making apparent how invasive news and media can be for people especially the royal family. In Banksy's exhibit “Dismaland”,which itself is a play on “Disneyland”, one can find a sculpture of Cinderella hunched over a crashed pumpkin carriage, under a tunnel,only illuminated by the lights of crowding paparazzi.Here, Banksy makes a compelling argument and statement about how invasive media can be in a person’s live by showing a third party depiction using a

Latino superhero with an art style largely influenced by sugar skulls, and Samurai Jack has a very accurate representation of ancient Japanese culture, with a non-offensively coded Asian male as the lead. These shows from the past offered a chance for people to relate to characters by offering them a character that looks like the person watching, or someone the person knows. Granted you can’t have every body type, race, gender, or sexuality expressed in mainstream media, but there has been a severe

Today’s media likes to give the appearance of honesty and truth, but it is really still just biased propaganda paid for by the bigger powers that control the news we know today. Many People are easily swayed by big news companies because they think they can trust them, when in reality they are just taking advantage of people. A story I found from CNN talked about How a North Korean missile test earned Kim Jong Un’s praise (K.J. Kwon, CNN). This shows that a lot of the stories that media covers seem

The media helps to construct national identity and loyal national subjects. Discuss. Introduction In the twenty first century, the media has been transformed into a highly influential tool and segmented to aspects such as print, broadcast, film, outdoor and internet etc. The relationship between the media and construction of national identity is apparent with distinctive representation of nationalism in news coverage of politics, celebrations, tourism and country heritage (Leong, 2001). National