Flashcards in Developments in Digital Forms Of Communication Deck (3)
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Carter (2005)
- virtual communities
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explores how digital communication both creates and maintains relationships. She researched ‘Cybercity’ and visited it 3 times conducting questionnaires and participant observation and found that cyberspace was used to meet new people with similar interests
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Castells (2000)
- Network society
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argues that although society remains capitalist, the focus has shifted from oil, gas and electricity to a focus on information which is of central importance to determining economic productivity
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Boyle (2005)
- media convergence
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explains how the process of digitalisation allows media convergence, where once spee rate forms of media can now be accessed though one device