So after I realised I did the Galloway reading a week early, I had a quick look at the Gitelman reading where the concept of ‘the media’ is examined and I think this was quite a nice way to end Networked Media. I particularly liked the idea of representation vs transmission, as even though we have these new technologies journalism and what we write is still important and cannot be forgotten in the whirlwind of new technology.
I also really like this definition:
“I define media as socially realized structures of communication, where structures in- clude both technological forms and their associated protocols, and where communica- tion is a cultural practice, a ritualized collocation of different people on the same mental map, sharing or engaged with popular ontologies of representation.”
Even though they say it keeps things ‘muddy’.