"Law provides copyright protection to creative works in order to foster the creation of culture. Its best known feature is protection of owners' rights. But copying, quoting, and generally re-using existing cultural material can be, under some circumstances, a critically important part of generating new culture. "
"Writing today is pervasively and generally digital: composed with digital tools; created out of word, image, sound and motion; circulated in digital environments; and consumed across a wide range of digital platforms." This is a good link describing the significance of digital writing.
The bounds for new media are set by five "principles of new media" present in most new media objects, which "should be considered not as absolute laws but rather as general tendencies of a culture undergoing computerization"
Great input on why today's society shouldn't have to suffer like past generations have to suffer. Media literacy is pertinent for those to succeed in the future.
""We have entered the knowledge society and everyone must have access to participate. The internet is the most powerful potential source of enlightenment ever created. Governments must regard it as basic infrastructure, just like roads, waste and water." Dr Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union"
This website has a slide show about design as a whole in general and the defintions and concepts of emphasis are also pretty good. This slide show is really good.
For anyone who has not used newbie if you can not figure out something digital check here first there are tons of user generate tutorials to help you out.
This website gave a really good example of immediacy, hypermediacy, and remediation. It was confusing for me to read about the three terms. Seeing the example provided on this website helped me to better understand the three.
BALANCE. This website expands more on how one can achieve balance in a layout, specifically with symmetrical and asymmetrical balancing. It also provides examples of each balancing act to highlight the methods described in the website.
This is a new media approach at explaining new media. This video shows how to create new media, and explains what new media is. It questions the difference between new and old media information. It explains the only difference is the audience.
I like this video because he gives a basic definition to new media. The video is really weird, but it is helpful. He gives examples of what new media is composed of.
This video was not only informative but it was intertaining. Researching information on New Media was not to exciting, this video got your attention and kept it. It also explains it in a simple, easily understood way.
This man really displayed the importance of new media. He accurately defined the material and was extremely persuasive with his view on the critical nature of it.
This man really displayed the importance of new media. He accurately defined the material and was extremely persuasive with his view on the critical nature of it.