New media technologies in today's world

ICT and New Media in Today’s World

ICT and New Media
in Today’s World
Mangesh Karandikar
Asst. Professor,
Department of Communication and Journalism,
University of Mumbai Dept. website: www.mcjmumbai.org
E-mail: mangesh.karandikar@gmail.comWebsite: www.karandikars.com

• The technological developments in
information and communication technology
have been unprecedented.
• New challenges that surpass the traditional
sociological, economic, political phenomena.
• The developments since the 1960’s and
especially since the early 1990’s have been
very rapid

Mangesh Karandikar, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Communication and Journalism, University of Mumbai. www.sancharFirst.com

• 1960’s - ARPANET Advanced Research Projects
Agency Network
• 1982 – The Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)
was standardized. The concept of a world
wide network introduced.
• 1980’s to 1990’s commercial ISPs – complete
commercialization in 1995


• 1980’s – MacBride Report
• Many Voices, One world
• New World Communication Order- to discuss
the fundamental issues of imbalances in
global communication.
• Failure because US and UK pulled out citing
commercial reasons (it was condemned by the
United States and the United Kingdom as an
attack on the freedom of the press)


• 1984 - Sam Pitroda
• Father of India’s communication revolution.


• The STD PCO booths all over the country


• The development of communication and
information technology in India kept pace
with the developments in the world.
• There have been parallel developments in all
forms of mass communication -
Print, Radio, Films, Video, and Internet…… and
now mobiles.


• Telephones
– Analogue
– DoT
– VSNL and MTNL
– Electronic / Digital Exchanges


• Radio
– State owned
– PrasarBharati
– FM Radio Stations
– Community Radio Stations


• Print Technology
– Letter Press
– Litho press
– Offset Printing
– Plates
– DTP
– Computer to plate


• Computers
– 286 – 386 – 486 – 586
– Pentiums
– Dual Core
– Core 2 Duo
– Quad Core
– i3, i5 and i7


• Internet
– 1995 – VSNL
– Rs.15000/- 100 hours
– 14.4 to 56.6 kbps
– Broadband
– 1 Mbps?

Internet connection speed results:
File Size: 5000KB
Time to Download: 43.4secon(s)
Your Bandwidth: 1040.16Kbps (1.016Mbps)


• Mobiles
– 1995-96 – Incoming Rs.16, Outgoing Rs.32
– Kar Lo DuniyaMutthiMein, December 28, 2002
– 2G, 3G and now 4G?


• Films
– 35 mm, 70 mm, IMAX
– Digital Broadcast
• Video
– Video Cassettes / VCR / VCP
– Beta / DigiBeta
– Hi 8 / Digital 8
– DV/MiniDV
– HD
– 3D

• Gulshan Kumar – T-Series – Aashiqui
• Reliance – Kar Lo DuniyaMuthiMein
• MoserBaer – DVDs and VCDs


• Where are we heading today?
• Computers – Internet – Mobile phones
– Convergence
• Text
• Messages
• Voice
• Video
• Social Networking
• The consumers have become producers of
content, but …..

• Physically distant individuals become
accessible and available (Goffman 1963).
• We live in a world of ‘timeless space’
• Collapse of traditional constraints of distance
where the virtual co-presence transcends the
problem of proximity.


• Internet, its use and abuse has led to an
evolution of a society addicted to and
dependent on technology.
• Isolation and Fragmentation
• Deterioration of Social Capital – Robert
Putnam – Bowling Alone
• Social Disengagement
• Transformation of the Public Sphere -
Habermas


• Has the ‘Spiral of Silence’ been broken?
Elisabeth Neumann
• Are we in a process of ‘re-tribalization?
• Does the Equalization and the Normalization
theory apply to ‘Internet societies’?
• There are more opportunities for audiences to
ignore the ‘rational’ and ‘political’ messages
and opt for entertaining ones (Blumler, 1999).


• Has our culture surrendered to Technology?
– Technopoly by Neil Postman (1992)
• Are Facebook, Twitter, E-mails, Blogs,
MySpace our future methods of
communication?
• Is what we know as our world today lost
already?


• Students offer prayers prior to
the start of lessons on their
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
laptops at VastiVidhalaya- a
Marathi medium school at
Khairat, in Karjat district some
75 km north of India's
financial capital of Mumbai.
• Photograph: Pal
Pillai/AFP/Getty Images
• Source:
http://specials.rediff.com/mon
ey/2008/aug/07slde1.htm


• Upon sending a single-
button-click request from an
icon-based software
application on their mobile
phone, fishermen access
vital updates on wave
height, wind speed and
direction, potential fishing
zones, news alerts,
government schemes and
latest market prices in their
local language (Tamil).


• Dr. SugataMitra, Chief Scientist at NIIT, is
credited with the discovery of Hole-in-
the-Wall. On 26th January, 1999 Dr.
Mitra's team carved a "hole in the wall"
that separated the NIIT premises from
the adjoining slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi.

The acquisition of basic computing skills by
any set of children can be achieved through
incidental learning provided the learners are
given access to a suitable computing facility,
with entertaining and motivating content
and some minimal (human) guidance.

• Aren’t we the ‘Jeans Generation’?
• Our parents were probably the ‘IraniChai’
generation!
• Social drinking was taboo.
• There were no ‘days’. We were always
friends…. or in love!


• The need is to channelize the energy, give a
direction to how the Internet and the mobiles
are used.
• Encourage
– Learning tools/sites (khanacademy.com,
brainpop.com)
– Good language.
– Making ‘friends’ from abroad – we had pen
friends didn’t we?
– Make that new ‘Idiot Box’ into a ‘Smart Box’

• Make them write a blog.
• Help them create their own website
(Cost: Rs.1500/- per year).
• Internet addiction … It’s better than drugs!
• Channelize their creative energies.



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