The specific domain in which we choose to communicate is through the network paradigm which started out to be centralized where people initially received their information from a mainframe. This then evolved to distributed and decentralized control.
The most intriguing to me personally is distributed media. Distributed media is when there is no centre source, meaning that the network can both scale up easily and maintain low coordination costs. Axel Bruns (2007) states that “artefacts generated are no longer products in a traditional sense: they are always unfinished and continually under development – such development is evolutionary, iterative and palimpsestic.” This statement helps me to understand how it is different from the other media networks. This also influenced me to create a diagram showing the difference, allowing a clearer visual representation of these networks.
It is something interesting to learn about as it isn’t something you automatically think of, yet it is so important.
References
Bruns, A 2007, ‘Produsage: Towards a Broader Framework for User-Led Content Creation’, QUTePrints, viewed 21 August 2020.
https://moodle.uowplatform.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=1396907
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