1. Interactive media.
• Interactive media normally refers to products
and services on digital computer-based
systems which respond to the user’s actions
by presenting content such as text, graphics,
animation, video, audio, games
2. Size, shape and structure.
• The interactive media industry is a very fluid sector with many
overlaps with, and blurred distinctions between, other
sectors.
• It is worth several billion pounds annually and employs
around 43,000 people, representing approximately 22% of the
total Creative Media Industries. Interactive media is not so
much a sector as a discipline, as its creation and use is
increasingly becoming part of everyday activity across all
sectors of industry in general.
3. Companies within interactive media
sector.
• Facebook
• Facebook is an online social networking service which allowed
people around the world to keep in touch.
• AOL
• AOL Inc. (previously known as America Online is
a multinationalmass media corporation based in New York
City that develops, grows, and invests in brands and web
sites.
4. Who owns these companies/what
other companies do they own.
• AOL is the owner of Adap.tv also they The company's
business spans digital distribution of content, products, and
services, which it offers to consumers, publishers, and
advertisers.
• Facebook
• Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark
Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard
University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The
founders had initially limited the website's membership to
students of the University of Harvard, but later expanded it
to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford
University.
5. How is twitter used by the media
industry?
• Twitter is used by many companies such as
advertising companies and musicians to
promote their products. Musicians have pages
to promote their new albums talk to their fans
do download their music while other
advertisement pages also do the same, twitter
is world wide and very good to promote things
because the message will be heard.
6. What other industry is interactive
media linked to.
• Interactive media is linked to television
because some times the channels say follow
or tweet us on twitter and gives links and
that’s where advertise and marketing comes
in to because their advertising twitter at the
same time.