IFI7101 Social Interaction in New Media

This is my second concept map. I enjoyed doing it much more than the first one. I even find it somehow addictive :)

This map describes social interaction in new media and shows terms related to it.

How does a community serve as a “cultural interface” to mediate communication with computers?

This is a hard question, even purely grammatically ;)

However..

Communities connect and contain users who's characterizations are in some point overlapping and who have similar interests. Culture is one thing in our background, that influences the other parts of it. And our backround knowledge have an effect on everything we deal with. That’s why culture has a big part in forming communities and shaping their working mechanisms.

IFI7101 What is New Media?

This is my first concept map - ever. For me concept maps are more easy to follow and understand than plain text but like it turned out, their not that easy to draw up.

The most important thing that characterizes and defines new media is its ability to change and evolve all the time.

In new media, the medium is the message!


Its hard to define is new media a technology or a culture. These two are so connected in new media, that one without the other would not exist in this term.

As a minded and cultured human being I would like to say that the answer to this question is a culture, but I can't.