lecture 1

The first lecture in media 160 covered a couple key factors in the web. It spoke of modularity which is plug in capability. This allows media to be viewed by many over the internet. Reproducibility which is being able to reproduce the media product more then once or twice in a different location on the web. We also discussed interactivity which is the ability for the user or of the site to interact with the media on the site. It also spoke about what the internet and media means to todays society, media is a huge structure of society it brings new and information to a wide range of people from all over the world, it also allows free speech and the ability for people to bring up pressing issues such as the dafur is dying web[age we were shown in class. The website was an interactive flash site that allowed users to play as a dafur person and simulated what their life is like bringing up pressing issues. The lecture also covered virtual reality which is the realm of the internet, also interoperability which allows different systems and softwares to interact. The whole lecture was very interesting.