The week 6 lecture provided an interesting insight into the consumption and production of content by humans, and its relation to new communication technology.
The 'big' screens of life are television, the pc and the cinema. Through these mediums we passively consume content, in large doses often, because they are made quite readily available to us.
The 'small' screens of life are mobiles phones (which are becoming increasingly convergent) and personal music players. These allow for increased involvement of productions, and for identities to be formed during product consumption.
Niche-markets are increasingly targeted, with the production of fan films. Websites promoting and producing this activity are available online as mentioned in the lecture.
News consumption is greatly affected by technology. Mobile phones create yet another social networking frame in which information freely passes at a fantastic speed.
This more or less sums up what I learned in the lecture. Oh yeah.
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