Friday, December 5, 2008

Utopia And Dystopia

The final part of the lecture was called CyberUtopia. We learnt of the first electronic media age in which information generally came from one source to be broadcast to many. The second electronic media age was the decentralization of the source which meant one person could broadcast to an enormous audience. I also learnt a new word dystopia which is simply the opposite of utopia. These were discussed in the context of new media studies in so far as the technology has been viewed as utopia because it can create perfect and sanitised scenarios full of enjoyment but without the danger.

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