1. New Media Politics Writing Prompt:
Write a short paragraph detailing what you used the Internet for this weekend? Be specific with examples (eg. watched a film online, or accessed Sakai). Where did you access the Internet, and on which devices? What internet speed did you have? Did you experience any problems?

2. What is “New” Media? Digital, require computer technology
Examples: Internet, websites, digital games, interactive fiction, apps, software, etc.
NOT(?): radio, television, film, books
Integration of images, words, sounds
Interactive
Other considerations: format, medium, skills

3. Internet: Early Expectations
Democratizing media
Consumers-producers
Global Village
Eliminate prejudice
Techno-utopianism
Peter Steiner's cartoon, as published in The New Yorker
English:  Image from The New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner, 1993.
New Yorker cartoon by Steiner, 1993

4. Two Problems Digital Divide
Economic , geographic, and social inequality in knowledge about, access to, and use of information and communication technologies (Wikipedia)
Implication: Who benefits from digital tech?
Persistence of prejudice
Connection to Winner

5. Digital Divide, internationally
Internet Use in 2008 Visualized (Graham, Hale and Stephens)

6. Digital Divide, within the U.S.
National Broadband Map:
Pew:
National Broadband Map
Pew Study, 2012

7. Implications of Digital Divide
Education
Jobs
Politics & Activism
Entertainment
…and more

8. Persistence of Prejudice
Internet debates reflect social realities
Homophobia and Alan Turing
Bikini Armor Battle Damage

9. Implications Engage critically with digital media
Become thoughtful producers
Our class assignments, for this term particularly

10. Call to Action Material Access Functional Access Experiential Access
Equality in material and infrastructural conditions
Functional Access
Knowledge and skills necessary to use tools
Experiential Access
Tools are relevant to people’s lives,
People involved in creating, designing, planning
Critical Access
Develop understanding of benefit and problems
Transformative Access
Transforming technology as well as society