New Media and Information Society

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New Media and Information Society

• Kieron Flanagan and Ian Miles
• PREST and CRIC
• University of Manchester

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Issues in New Media

• Types of Media and Markets - traditional and new
• Key Dynamics and Features of New Media
• Experience with First Generations
• Strategies and Actors
• Wider Implications

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In this weeks seminar

• Ian will present a perspective on convergence -
  see his article on Cyberspace as Product Space
• Our volunteers will explain why paper is going to
  be wiped out / unassailable.
• Kieron will present some highlights from his
  studies of new media.

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NEW MEDIA KEY FEATURES

• CONVERGENCE
• underlying technological bases (microelectronics,
  optronics, software,digitalisation)
• confronting distinct industries, assets, content
  and capabilities

• INTERACTIVITY
• promises and realities
• differential development of applications and
  competences on both user and supplier sides
• technically demanding

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Convergence

• We often hear about computer/telecommunications
  convergence - or is it collision??
• Held by many to be a defining feature of new IT.
• Here, a perspective on media convergence
  computing, broadcasting, and publishing.

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The three trumpet shapes represent the
telecommunications, computer, and broadcast
print media fields.
Over time the product space to which they
contribute, and its market size, expands, and the
three fields overlap increasingly.
Time
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Early Industrial Society
COMPUTATION
(TELE) COMMUNICATIONS
Paper-based communication Stationery,
Post. C19th - telephone, telegraph
Mechanical information processing very limited
till C20th - punch cards, calculators
All (but telecomms) based on PHYSICAL TRANSPORT
Paper-based information products - books,
newspapers, etc live consultation
entertainment mechanical recorded media
(gramophone etc)
INFORMATION GOODS SERVICES
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The mid-1950s
COMPUTERS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
PHYSICAL TRANSPORT augmented by some electronic
delivery (telecomms, radio, etc.)
Very few,very large, valve-based electronic
computers Keyboard calculators
Telephone Telegraph
TV (mainly monochrome)AM radio, LP records,
valve amplifiers
BROADCAST PUBLISHED MEDIA
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The mid-1970s
COMPUTERS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Increasing role for electronic delivery, but
little integration of media
Numerous mainframe computers Pocket calculators
Telephone Telegraph Telex
TV (colour) AM and FM tranistor radio, LP
records, transistor amplifiers
BROADCAST PUBLISHED MEDIA
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The Mid-1980s
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTERS
Telephone Answering Mahines, Mobile phones,
Pagers Numerous Fax Machines
Numerous Personal computers Home computers and
videogames Electronic wristwatches
Some integration of media, emergence of optical
media, increasing digitalisation
Electronic mail Bulletin boards
Videotex
Online databases for business science
Recorded information services
Videorecorders, audio CDs, cable and
satellite TV Teletext
BROADCAST PUBLISHED MEDIA
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The mid-1990s
Numerous PCs, laptops. notebooks, pocket
organisers, etc. Numerous home computers and
videogames
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTERS
Digital mobile phones, Widespread use of Fax,
pagers
Electronic mail Mobile data comms
Increasing integration of media, use of optical
media, digitalisation
Internet World Wide Web
CD-ROM publishing
Cable telephony Audiotext
Videorecorders, audio CDs, digital recording
cable and satellite TV
BROADCAST PUBLISHED MEDIA
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The mid-2000s?
Pervasive computers, in many types of device
(e.g. Personal Digitial Assistants)
COMPUTERS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Internet telephone, Internet telephony
Digital mobile communications in wide use -
pervasive communications
Next generation of Internet WWW Video
telephones and conferences
Internet TV Video on Demand Interactive TV
DVD-ROM, interactive video
Digital Broadcast TV digital videorecording High
definition TV
BROADCAST PUBLISHED MEDIA
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UNCERTAINTY SURROUNDS

• Successful products/applications/triggers
• Design paradigms/platforms
• User implementation
• Market structures
• Product spaces
• Emergence and take-off of markets
• Governance of intellectual property
• Other governance issues