This document provides an introduction and overview for a university course on digital technology and new media. It outlines several key concepts that will be covered, including social media tools for collaboration, new media genres of participation like hanging out and messing around, and how individuals are becoming digital through incorporating new media into everyday life. Assessment for the course includes a project exploring values in technologies and a written essay.

1. Introduction to Term 2 TECH2002 Studies in Digital Technology Week 16 Andrew Clay

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18. Example: LittleBigPlanet on the PS3 New media – videogames Web 2.0 and social media values are designed into the core of the game to provide rich social media experiences Jun 7, 2009

19. http://littlebigplanet.com/en_GB/ Jun 7, 2009

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30. What is new? availability and access, opening up of many-to-many communication, using a dynamic form of publishing that can constantly be ‘under construction’, not fixed in print on a shelf Jun 7, 2009

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51. Bibliography Castells, M. (2000) The Rise of the Network Society (2nd Edition) , Oxford, Blackwell. Digital Youth Project (2008) White Paper Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project [WWW] http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/report/digitalyouth-WhitePaper.pdf (Accessed 15 December 2008). Flew, T. (2008) New Media: An Introduction (3 rd Edition) , South Melbourne, Oxford University Press. Gauntlett, D. and Horsley R. (Eds. (2004) Web.Studies , London, Arnold. Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age , Cambridge, Polity Press. Lister, M. (et al.) (2003) New Media: A Critical Introduction , London and New York, Routledge. McCarthy, J. And Wright, P. (2004) Technology as Experience , Cambridge, Mass. and London, MIT Press. Mayfield, A. (2007) What is social media? [WWW] Available at http://www.icrossing.co.uk/fileadmin/uploads/eBooks/What_is_social_media_Nov_2007.pdf (Accessed 24 September 2008). Mitchell, W. J. (2003) Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City , Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press. Rheingold, H. (1993) The Virtual Community [WWW] Available at http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book (Accessed 5 January 2008). Thompson, J. (1995) The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media , Cambridge, Polity Press. Weinberger, D. (2002) Small Pieces Loosely Joined [WWW] Available at http://www.smallpieces.com (Accessed 21 November 2007). Jun 7, 2009