Impact of Digitisation on Media Consumption

Impact of Digitisation on Media ConsumptionHow has digitisation changed media consumption? Discuss with reference to at least one specific example.The last decades fork out brought a revolution on how and where information and entertainment are being delivered. About 13 years ago MySpace was the best source for loving networking. Facebook and YouTube did not even exist then. Now Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube gain things ranging from currents, sports, entertainment clips to original creations. However, this is not just about the development of more sources of media moreover it is about how media are delivered. straighta manner everything we see, hear and read, is digitized. They are a product of those countless 1s and 0s codes. That in turn means, that as far as technology is concerned, it is all the same print, audio and motion-picture show have no difference. Every conceivable kind of information comes to us on the same device. If you own a smart phone then you mechanically have a phone, a tv screen, a newspaper, a camera, a file holder, a radio and many more. This has shifted the power away from the providers to the users of information. Media gets shaped by the consumers. Media convergence has encouraged an increase of participatory culture where the consumer is uniformwise the producer of media. As a result, participation in media has leaked into politics. The rise of the network society has also led to transformations of social dynamics and interpersonal relationships as well as how individuals relate to institutions. Donald Trumps tweeting demonstrate the notion of relationship shift in three variant ways.In order to understand how Trump uses tweets in social media and with what outcome, one needs to be aware of how an individual disregard change the course of practical(prenominal) products. Everyone is potentially a producer of media as well as a consumer of media. We live in a world where sharing with each early(a) what we prepare is mutu ally rewarding and has an enormous emotional satisfaction. Going back 200 years in invoice, people struggled with the limits of technology to figure out a way to share their ideas with each other and to communicate effectively crossways great geographic distances. Middle of the 19th century, teenagers were producing publications using tin-toy printing press, where they had to sit and type letter by letter in order to print something (Leurs, 2017).They would print them and these things would then circulate on a national scale. That is the same impulse that leads kids today to tramp content on their Facebook page or to put forward their own song videos for YouTube. This desire to create and share what you create with others is corporeally powerful. Is not an agency or a network that is pushing content to be viewed, but it is the consumer that engages other consumers with that content (Jenkins, Ford and Green, 2013 2). For instance, on Facebook there is a share button where you ca n share content with your friends. If your friends like it then they can share it again and so on and this is one of the ways a content can go viral. Consequently, spreadability is all about the choices the consumers make which affects the flow of media by dint of the culture (Jenkins, Ford and Green, 2013 3-5). Spreadability allows information to flow in an interconnected society. Content does not just go around on its own accord participatory culture allows media content to spread through denary active choices (Jenkins, 2006 3). Individuals have a greater guarantee over the means of cultural production and circulation than ever before. This is because, it is not the creator of a virtual(prenominal) product that is facing pages it to the mass, but it is the masses who are spreading it among one another and their networks.Trumps relationship with the media is complex in three ways. Firsly, Trumps tweets depict how participatory culture is important for the vitality of an indivi dual or a virtual product. According to Castell, network society forms the new architecture of society. Networks have an open structure and are able to expand and contract as necessary. The discourse that occurs across these networks is multidimensional and multidirectional. For instance, during Trumps presidential campaign, in 2016, there was an apparent rise in Trumps tweets. His tweets were then taken out of context and converted to memes. These memes were then uploaded in multiple online pages such(prenominal) as 9Gag and Reddit. Through participatory culture people from all over the world could be part of Trumps presidential campaign. Additionally, people were not totally sharing Trumps tweets but someone created a page (www.faketrumpetweet.com) where anyone can create a fake trump tweet and then share it as an genuine tweet. Therefore, the rise of participatory culture in a network society has led to transformations of social dynamics. Trumps constant controversial Tweets, during his campaign, made him look more like a mass media celebrity rather than a traditional politician. This demonstrates that people were connecting around and through Trump. This was about what the people did. Trump was simply a conjure up attached to participatory culture as large numbers of young people moved for the first time in the political process. Wider culture is now translating politics to popular culture. Trumps constant tweeting proves that politics is moving away from policy discourse and into a more engaged audience.Secodly, Trumps tweets portray the blur lines between real and fake context in the network society. Cultural networks have evolved from the virtual network society and emerged from the industrial age to the information age (Castell). In this renewing capitalism is no longer centred on the production of material goods, but on the information and knowledge. Trump has often been criticized for tweeting misleading information. However, not everyone can key fake news. Pierre Levy, a French philosopher, cultural theorist and media scholar, developed the idea of collective intelligence. Levy argues that in a networked society nobody knows everything (Levy, 1997 13).Everybody knows something but there is an enormous array of all kinds of expertise and knowledge out there. Hence, we relay, to some extent, on media to make sense of the world around us. If someone relies on Trumps tweets to receive basic information then this person will not only receive deceptive information but a great substance of biasness too. With digitizations advancements, each individual, sitting behind a computer or a tablet, has in their hands more power than any previous generation could imagine. to each one individual should make extra effort on social media to try and verify stories before passing them on, especially if they confirm a pre-existing bias.Thirdly, through Trumps tweets the representation of a paradoxical connection with globalization is evide nt and this allows information to be instantaneously consumed. His lack of globalized thinking is evident in many of his tweets such as America must put its own citizens first, because only then can we truly Make America Great Again JointAddress AmericanSpirit (tweet was posted on Feb. 28, 2017, 914 p.m.) is just an example out of the tens. What Trump is trying to do is abandon globalization using globalized means. The nature of the network society, and thus globalization, make it possible for Trump to be accessed by different people in different places at the same time. As a result, social media becomes a encounter point and a place of global scale exchange of opinions and statements. The difference in a network society is that the process of managing information within social networks is achieved using electronic based technologies. Still, what is interesting with Trumps tweets is that when he tweets it not only spreads throughout social media, but it also gets attention from tra ditional media (newspapers etc). Thus, he appeals to everyone by starting national as a well as global discussions 140 characters at a time. As a result, societies do not have to be attached to a specific geographic space such as a nation or state, but simply to the space of communication and information flows. Hence, in a way, it should not feel weird that a president tweets this much, because he is communicating in a way that any other person is.Consequently, Donald Trumps tweeting allows power relationships to shift and it makes participatory culture even more evident in the network society. This brings out an outcome where consumers are more tight involved on how the media landscape looks like. Every minute new layers of content are created. People add their own variance by alternating information, creating new content, or adding on to the spreadability of virtual products. However, it is easy for someone to consume deliberate misinformation via social media. Nonetheless, the p rocess of creating new product, whether they entail real or fake information, keeps on accelerating and expanding, thus, media will continue to create a type value and meaning as it travels across cultures through network societies. This is because humans correspondingly shape and determine communications and networks. Finally, Castells theory of the increasing connectedness of human society and our reliance on information and communication technologies is an important contribution to our understanding of globalization in the media and Donald Trump is e ultimate participator and reciprocator of his through his tweeting.CitationsJenkins, H. (2004). The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 7(1), pp.33-43.Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence culture Where Old and impudently Media Collide. 1st ed. New York New York University Press.Jenkins, H., Ford, S. and Green, J. (2013). Spreadable media Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture. 1st e d. New York New York University Press.Leurs, L. (2017). 1800-1849 The history of printing during the 19th century. online Prepressure. Available at https//www.prepressure.com/printing/history/1800-1849 Accessed 15 Mar. 2017.Levy, P. 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