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Theories

Theories can be researched, debated, changed

Theories can be combined

This unit is about thinking critically about

theories, learning about them and weighing their

value and reaching your own conclusions.

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Dan Gillmors We The MediaTHEORY:

New Media allows the audience to move from aLecture to a Conversation.

Turns the audience from them the media and usthe audience to We the Media.

Empowers people everywhere to learn, makethemselves heard and have more control overtheir work.

HOW TRUE IS THISTHEORY?

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Putting We Media Theory to the

Test Your articles studies last week taught

me about: Alternative view points on world events

(Terrorism and the Death of Chemical Ali)

Clarification of established news stories(the motivations about why Mother KimGilderdale helped her daughter die)

Put a face to environmental and culturaldestruction in isolated parts of the world(Avatar and the plight of contemporarytribes)

The political freedoms in other parts ofthe world (Sri Lankan Politics and acomparison with British Soap Stars)

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The Virtual Revolution

New series on BBC 2 by AleksKrotoski

Explores The history of the internet

Web freedom The Corporate vs Open Source

Web Social, Economic and Political

issues of New Media

EXACTLY what we are studying BUT Different theories to Dan

Gillmor

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Note Taking Topics1. The Great Leveler

2. Libertarianism

3. The Well

4. Ushahidi

5. The World Wide Web

6. HTML

7. URL8. Tim Burners Lee

9. Bill Gates

10.Steve Wozniak

1. Microsoft Legal Battles

2. Charles Leadbeater3. Napster

4. Open Source

5. User generated content

6. Arianna Huffington

7. The Huffington Post

8. Jimmy Wales

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Research SheetNotes about your topic(History, Facts, Statistics, Theories, Ideas,

Events, Dates)

TOPIC:

Summarise one theory you found interesting in the episode:

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Things We Learned From

The Virtual Revolution WWW was given away for free From the start the Internet has been driven by people

with a sense of personal freedom

130 Million Blogs - 90% Dormant Lots of Conversationbut no one is listening.

The lack of online regulation means that those who canshout the loudest get the most space and attention (eg.Google Wins)

1 search engine, 1 social networking website, 1 store

Not a great leveller at all

Not actually free at all instead run by an elite.(Government/Corporate Control)

Hope in Endless Reinvention (Revolution and Counter

Revolution)

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Task 1

Write up a new page inside Virtual

Revolution part of the wiki about your

topic

Provide Context to the facts you learned from

watching (Do a little bit of research)

Add links/images/videos/w2gs

MAX 300 words