New media has been described as anything that is delivered digitally to you such as emails, websites, mobiles and any internet-related form of communication[1]. However looking at this description in relation to activism and development; it is lacking some depth and concept. Some definitions of new media focus exclusively upon …
At our recent group blog presentations, I cannot help but noticed that many of the blogs written were taking a lens from a female-feminist perspective, in other word most of my peers in the C4D study are women. I am of course writing this from a traditional slightly bias view …
In my previous blog entitled New Media and Technology and the gendering of the social world, I discussed how digital violence is a way to silence people from participation and could lead to a gender democratic deficit if we do not stop it. I laid discussion and presented researches how …
In my previous blog entitled new media and technology: does it make for a less violent society, I referred to a statement made by the well-known historian Niall Ferguson on a Danish television program recently. He said and I am paraphrasing “today we don’t find real violence, only online violence, …
Media is defined as the mean of communication such as radio and television, print publications such as newspaper or magazines and its intent is to reach people in the masses. Still, old media is restrictive in its coverage and was often delayed, and since the internet-age that began in the …
