This document discusses various perspectives on assessing the implications of new media technologies. It covers: 1) The need to understand both the history of old media and longstanding assumptions about technology to better analyze new media. 2) Different levels at which new media can be analyzed - from specific technologies to social practices and institutions. 3) How early predictions about new media were often overblown or underestimated actual impacts. 4) Frameworks for analyzing new media diffusion and how technologies are reshaped through social use.

1. Assessing the Implications of New Media Guest Lecture KCB202 New Media Technologies Professor Terry Flew Media and Communications Creative Industries Faculty

4. Internet positives and negatives (DiMaggio et. al. , 2001)