School Of Communication, Design And MediaConvergence and New MediaWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 100223.1
Discipline: COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES NEC
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Incompatible Units
101042.1 Convergence and New Media
About this Unit
This unit explores the impact of media convergence on media industries, workplace practices and the domestic world. It examines the ways new media have resulted in irreversible changes to the structure and organisation of older broadcast and print-based media through the impact of the new media on industries like publishing, animation, music publication and distribution. It also considers the deployment of media technologies in the workplace, the automobile, the person and the home in ways that facilitate the development of new media services. It examines theorists who have presented analyses of the future of development of communications technologies, and the social and cultural implications of these developments for questions of human rights, freedom and political action.