WOMEN IN NEW MEDIA

Introduction

Ex :Is it all about Facebook,YouTube,Google,Twitter,Wikipedia etc...or

Internet,website, computer multimedia,computer games,CD-ROMsandDVD

New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20th century.New media refers to on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation. Another aspect of new media is the real-time generation of new,

• Some examples may be theInternet, websites, computer multimedia, video games, CD-ROMS, and DVDs. New media does not include television programs, feature films, magazines, books, or paper-based publications – unless they contain technologies that enable digital interactivity

History :• Until the 1980s media relied primarily upon print and analog

broadcast models, such as those of television and radio. The last twenty-five years have seen the rapid transformation into media which are predicated upon the use of digital technologies, such as the Internet and video games. However, these examples are only a small representation of new media. The use of digital computershas transformed the remaining 'old' media, as suggested by the advent of digital television and online publications. Even traditional media forms such as the printing press have been transformed through the application of technologies such as image manipulation software like Adobe Photoshop and desktop publishing tools.

Definitions

New Media versus Cyberculture – Cyberculture is the various social phenomena that are associated with the Internet and network communications (blogs, online multi-player gaming), whereas New Media is concerned more with cultural objects and paradigms (digital to analog television, iPhones).

New Media as Computer Technology Used as a Distribution Platform – New Media are the cultural objects which use digital computer technology for distribution and exhibition. e.g. (at least for now) Internet, Web sites, computer multimedia, Blu-ray disks etc. The problem with this is that the definition must be revised every few years. The term "new media" will not be "new" anymore, as most forms of culture will be distributed through computers

Indian tatal population is 1,220,200,000 . In our country 70.08 % mobile usaging in total population ( 864,720,186) in the year 2012 servey says. Specailly womens case

Stats About the 225 Million Large Female Mobile Subscriber Base in India

The Digital Empowerment Foundation in association with the Vodafone Foundation earlier this year had announced the Empowering Women through Mobile 2011-12 report. Here are a few highlights about the female mobile subscribers in India that would be of relevance to the Indian startup ecosystem:

Around 125 million internet users in India, in which 40% of the users are Women's, according to the survey by industry body Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) and ComScore. The survey has observed one out of every 10 indians is online thereby making it about 10% online user entering in india.

• The world celebrated international women’s day on 8th March, a day that would ideally represent the political economic social and new media achievements of women. In India too.women have come a long way

Tessy Thomas is the Project Director for Agni-V missile in Defence Research and Development Organisation. She is the first woman scientist to head a missile project in India.

Successful indian womens in new media

Flying Officer Anjali Gupta was an officer in Indian Air Force. She was the first female officer in India to be court martialled.[1] She was working at the Aircraft Systems and Testing Establishment in Bangalore.

Sunita Williams  is an Indian American astronaut and a United States Navy officer who holds the record for longest space flight by a woman.[2] She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and Expedition 15. In 2012

Kalpana Chawla (July 1, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was born in Karnal, India. She was the first Indian American astronaut[1] and first Indian woman in space.[2] She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. In 2003, Chawla was one of seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.[3]

Globalization and new media The rise of new media has increased communication between people all over the world and the Internet. It has allowed people to express themselves through blogs, websites, pictures, and other user-generated media.

Importance of new media for women

As tool for social change New Media has been used extensively by social movements to educate, organize, share cultural products of movements, communicate, coalition build, and more. 

security Particularly of interest to the espionage community are Facebook and Twitter, two sites where individuals freely divulge personal information that can then be sifted through and archived for the automatic creation of dossiers on both people of interest and the average citizen

Disadvantages of specaily women New Media New media has a lot of disadvantages to it as well for instance we spend a lot of our time on social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter etc. that we don’t interact with our fellow students or work colleagues as much. News spreads fast on the Internet at an uncontrollable rate once it on the Internet it’s hard to get it off.  Also if we are searching news topics online we can find some extreme views on the subject that we might find disturbing. Another disadvantage is cyber bullying children at school could be getting bullied non stop when they go home and go on to sites like Facebook and Bebo and there still getting bullied this could cause the child to get depressed or worse kill themselves. Paedophiles and stalkers can use social networking websites to get valuable information on there pray, during the riots in England people could go on YouTube and watch footage of it. The people in the riots took pictures and posted them on the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Terrorist use the Internet to post video of potential attacks. We have no privacy online anymore any picture we post of ourselves are on the Internet for good it’s not safe for us to put any valuable information online because someone could steal your identity online use your credit card to buy anything. We can see that we our controlled by the Internet but it can be danger for some who put themselves at risk be outing their information online for people to look and steal. 

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