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New Media ( Chapter 8 in Text)

• Definition & the Information Revolution
• Changing economics
• Changing regulation
• Social Issues
• Social Challenges:
• The Knowledge Gap
• Surveillance and loss of privacy
• Sharing and Market “Hacktivism”

History of New Media

• Since 1970s, but especially 1990s, nations concerned with the “ information highway”
• Treated the Internet like an 1840s challenge of the telegraph
• Concern that to remain competitive in a global trading economy, nations needed to “wire up”
• Provide businesses, workers and consumers access to the Internet for education, retail, entertainment
• Frontier metaphors often used
• Essential for economic transformation away from industrial to service/ information economies: the so-called “innovation agenda”
• In Canada, wired telco/cable providers dominated agenda: wireless only now emerging