Lecture Review Week 5

Media used as communication which becomes a technology medium. this lecture is about technology and media. Through the internet shared interest in everyday life is then transformed into a shared interest with people around the world. A new era of internet is called Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is web that is about people. The difference between the old web and Web 2.0 is folksonomy which categorises and organises knowledge. This is a user generated content. There are also open API's which are web pages that you can share information openly.

Social media consists of weblog's, social network services and context sharing communities which are new kinds of communities. The economy of accumulation is someone who can have information about you (e.g. Facebook). The worrying thing is what they can actually do with your information and where they can post it and who can access it.