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Unit 3: Participation
Quick questions on Technologies and participatory platforms: QCE Film, Television and New Media
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What is technologies as a key concept?Show answer
In Film, Television and New Media, technologies covers the hardware, software, platforms and systems used to make, distribute and experience moving-image media. The concept asks you to look past the content and analyse how the tool itself shapes meaning and participation.
What is convergence?Show answer
Convergence is the merging of previously separate technologies and media forms. A single smartphone now shoots, edits, distributes and displays moving-image media. Film, television and new media increasingly share platforms, formats and audiences. A documentary might premiere at a festival, stream globally, and spawn a participatory companion series, all through converged technology.
What are audiences?Show answer
Technologies set the terms of participation. A platform built around remixing creates active, creative audiences; one built around passive scrolling creates lighter engagement.
What are institutions?Show answer
Platform owners are powerful institutions. They write the algorithms and guidelines that decide which participation is rewarded and which is suppressed, and they monetise attention.
What are representations?Show answer
Cheaper production technology lets under-represented groups make and circulate their own representations, diversifying whose stories appear.
What are languages?Show answer
New technologies create new conventions: the jump-cut vlog style, the split-screen duet, and the looping short are all language features that emerged from specific tools.
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