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New Media Technologies: Communication Theories
COM 300
Kathy E. Gill23 Jan 2007
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Agenda
Recap Last Week Characteristics of New Media Managing Overload Technology Adoption Lab
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New Media
Typically nonlinear Dynamic “Live” (maybe) Multi-media (visual, auditory) Relies on hypertext User controls pace and direction Transient audience
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Source: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/CMC290/290wk5.htm
One new technology
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Hypertext
Presents information as linked nodes Breaks the linear narrative
Envisioned by Vannevar Bush (1945) Coined by Ted Nelson Apple : Hypercard Online (software) Help systems Tim Berners-Lee
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Networks of Remediation (1/3)
“A medium is that which remediates” … and it is measured “against” other media (like we just did)
New media in turn change the “older” media TV … tickertape Print … adopting web design conventions
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Networks of Remediation (2/3)
Economic success depends on supplanting a pre-existing medium Conflict: newspaper websites v paper Conflict: CDs v downloadable (sharable)
songs Hypermediacy
Survivor… The Apprentice… mediated or authentic?
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Networks of Remediation (3/3)
How do we separate technology from its social use? Can we? Technological determinism : says
technology causes social change … Social determinism is the converse Corollary: “nature versus nurture” …
“'technology-push” v “demand-pull” Can new media technology offer us
transparent democracy? Howard Rheingold, John Perry Barrow
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Why Use a Technology? Cognitive Needs – Desire (demand) for information,
knowledge, understanding Affective Needs – Aesthetic, pleasurable, and
emotional experiences Personal Integrative Needs – Inner-directed, deal with
credibility, confidence, stability, and status Social Integrative Needs – Outer-directed,
strengthening relationships with family, friends, the world
Escapist Needs – Desire for tension release or diversion
- Katz, Gurevitch, and Haas
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Question:
What factors affect your acceptance (or rejection) of new communication channel, new product? Jot down Pair and share
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Technology and Communication Media
Caves in France Paper and charcoal/ink Printing Press Telegraph et al (radio, television) Computer mediated communications
Internet: e-mail, IM, web sites, BBs, usenet, Skype (VoIP)
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Quotable 1
“This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” -- Western Union internal memo, 1876
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Quotable 2
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
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Quotable 3
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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Quotable 4
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” -- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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HCI (1/3)
Norman: “The real problem with being digital is that it implies a kind of slavery to accuracy, a requirement that is most unlike the natural workings of the person. People are analog, insensitive to noise, insensitive to error. People extract meanings, and as long as the meanings are unchanged, the details of the signals do not matter.”
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HCI (2/3)
The world is complex: computer systems seek to render that complexity into something “simple” Yes/No (zero/one) Linear v Pattern Seeking Human Error – preventable? Whose
fault? CHI or HCI – false dichotomy?
“People excel at qualitative considerations, machines at quantitative ones.”
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Internet Technologies
Efficiency IP v Telephony
Medium Independence Medium in this case is the
communication medium : telephone wire, cable wire, wireless, cell telephony, satellite, ??
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Zuckerman and McLaughlin, link
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Domain Name System (DNS)
Analogous to the address used by a postal worker to deliver mail
Domain Names Original: .com, .gov, .mil, .net, .edu, .org Countries: .us to .za New: .biz, .info…
Works because of standardization
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HCI (3/3)
1. How does the internet play a vital role in how man and machine interact?
2. What are some misconceptions about our relationship to machines?
3. How much must we understand computers in order to function in our society? In the future, will we be more or less dependent on computers? Is this good?
4. The machine-centered view is precise, orderly and logical, while people are distractible, creative and illogical. The public education system seems to be modeled more on the machine-centered view. How might this model affect students’ view of themselves?
5. Do we as a human race really think that machines, that one day could be more intelligent than us, could successfully join us in our society? How would this happen?
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Summary
There is an intrinsic relationship between content and technology: both contribute to meaning
Tension between humans and machines
Internet Technology is application independent, agnostic
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What leads to adoption?
Winston: supervening social necessity More than “build a better mousetrap”
Advertising One goal is to build “need”
FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt)
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Rogers (1995) - Diffusion Theory
Identified four main elements of an innovation-diffusion process Innovation Social system Time Communications channels
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Linear innovation-diffusion
The process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system. (Rogers, 1995, p.5).
Innovation: An idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption
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Communication
A process in which participants create and share information with one another in order to reach mutual understanding (Rogers, 1995)
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Time
The adoption model follows an “s” shape curve over time
For example …
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Forecast: US Household Technology Adoption, 2005-2010Forrester Reports. July 2005, Data Overview “The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2005”
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Innovation-Decision Process
The mental process through which an individual passes : from knowledge to forming an attitude toward the innovation (adopt, reject)
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Five steps
Knowledge Persuasion Decision (adopt or reject) Implementation Confirmation
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Social System
A set of interrelated units that are engaged in joint problem-solving to accomplish a common goal.
Members or units of a social system may be individuals, informal groups, organizations, and/or subsystems.
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Critical mass (1/2)
Rogers (1995) : "the critical mass occurs at the point at which enough individuals have adopted an innovation so that the innovation's further rate of adoption becomes self-sustaining.” (network effects)
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Critical mass (2/2) The critical mass theory is a social
system perspective, not a technology perspective.
The irreversible phase may take place when not only the critical mass point is overcome but also the dominant design is brought about at least in terms of the technological innovation. Examples?
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Adopter categories
Innovators Early adopters Early majority Late majority Laggards
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Technological Innovations
Hardware - the tool that embodies the technology as a material or physical object.
Software - the knowledge base for the tool
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Summary Adoption
What are some of the reasons we adopt a new product?
What are the five stages of adoption? What is Critical Mass?
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More New Media Theory
Marshall McLuhan: Canadian, author of Understanding Media (1964) and The Medium is the Massage (1967)
Lev Manovich: professor, UCSD, author of The Language of New Media (2001) and Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (2005)
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McLuhan (1/3)
Believes media (technologies) affect cultural (social) change Differentiates between a medium and its
content Same content (words) is a different
message when delivered in print, face-to-face, or on television – what is less important than how
“We shape our tools, and they in turn shape us."
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McLuhan (2/3)
Historical Construct Tribal Age (oral culture – intuitive) Age of Literacy (invention of phonetic
alphabet – emergence of logic) Print Age (invention of printing press –
linear thinking – science – individualism) Electronic Age (ushered in with
telegraph, poster child: TV – global village – decline of logic and linearity)
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McLuhan (3/3)
Compare our immediate knowledge of the 2004 December Tsunami with the 1556 Chinese earthquake that killed 830,000
If, as he suggests, print created individualism and nationalism … what might networked communication create? Will familiarity breed contempt or collaboration?
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Manovich’s Five (1/6)
Numerical Representation Modularity Automation Variability Transcoding
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Manovich’s Five (2/6)
Numerical representation “zero’s and one’s” Vector graphics v Bitmaps Analog v Digital
Early complaints about CD v LP
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Manovich’s Five (3/6)
Modularity The “whole” consists of many “objects”
Example from blog: Google Images PPT and Excel HTML page (javascript, JPGs, etc) Individual blog posts
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Manovich’s Five (4/6)
Automation What computers do best! From blog post: “Apple’s new OS X
Tiger… and Automator” Photoshop automation; running “Cron”
jobs; database driven websites RSS readers Object management and search (Google)
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Manovich’s Five (5/6)
Variability Website customization possible by
automation Presenting data (shaping appearance)
based on output device: monitor, PDA, cellphone
Scaling (zoom – Google Maps)
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Manovich’s Five (6/6)
Transcoding Two distinct layers: cultural layer and
technology layer … the intersection is a field called Human-Computer Interaction
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Assignments
Discussion Leaders Process, expectations
Journalistic or Scholarly Article PPT Post to web site
Assignment 1 Due Friday!
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Diffusion Theory Rogers (1995) outlined four parts:
Innovation Social system Time Communications channels
And five steps: Knowledge Persuasion Decision (adopt or reject) Implementation Confirmation
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Summary
We define (or frame) new media in comparison to old media
There is an intrinsic relationship between content and technology: both contribute to meaning
Churchill : “we shape our buildings and then our buildings shape us”
Empowerment means responsibility
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Lab
Proposals – break into peer groups Feedback in person, online Discuss final proposal – due Friday via
eSubmit Next Assignment (distribute) Discussion Leaders
Process, expectations
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Resources Effects of Four CMC Channels on Trust Glossary of Internet Terms Hypertext Terms (W3C) JCMC Patterns of Hypertext Semantic Web: Intro