IB Digital Society Topic 2.2A Expression and Its Importance Revision Notes (SL/HL)

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2.2A Expression and Its Importance

Expression as a Concept

Expression is one of the seven concepts: the act of representing ideas, emotions, and experiences. As a lens, ask how digital systems change what gets expressed, by whom, and how it is received.
Expression travels through a mode (the form: text, image, audio, video) and a medium (what carries it: printed page, phone screen, livestream). Same idea, many modes; digital makes switching easy.
Study it like a media scholar or artist would. What was said matters, but so does how the form and channel shape the message and who ends up hearing it.

Analogy

Analogy

A mode is like the language you pick for a thought: a hug, a text, and a song can each carry the same feeling in a different form.
Choosing the mode is already part of the expression. The form does work of its own.

Who Can Speak Now

Before digital systems, reaching a large audience needed a printing press, broadcaster, or record label: a few speakers reached many listeners.
Digital lowered the barrier: anyone with a phone can publish to millions, and audiences publish back. Shift from one-to-many broadcast to many-to-many networks.
Matters most for people and communities rarely heard in traditional media, who can now tell their own stories and organize. But a louder crowd is not automatically fairer: reach still depends on access, algorithms, and who already has an audience.

Case study

System: social media platforms let individuals post text, images, and video to a public audience and spread a shared hashtag.
Specifics: from 2017 the #MeToo hashtag was used millions of times as people shared experiences of harassment, expression mainstream media had rarely carried.
Impacts and implications: it moved private experiences into public view and pressured institutions to respond, while raising risks of pile-ons and unverified claims.
Concepts: expression and power, as people with little access to traditional media reached a global audience; social context.

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2.2A Expression and Its Importance

Expression as a Concept

Expression is one of the seven concepts: the act of representing ideas, emotions, and experiences. As a lens, ask how digital systems change what gets expressed, by whom, and how it is received.
Expression travels through a mode (the form: text, image, audio, video) and a medium (what carries it: printed page, phone screen, livestream). Same idea, many modes; digital makes switching easy.
Study it like a media scholar or artist would. What was said matters, but so does how the form and channel shape the message and who ends up hearing it.

Analogy

Analogy

A mode is like the language you pick for a thought: a hug, a text, and a song can each carry the same feeling in a different form.
Choosing the mode is already part of the expression. The form does work of its own.

Who Can Speak Now

Before digital systems, reaching a large audience needed a printing press, broadcaster, or record label: a few speakers reached many listeners.
Digital lowered the barrier: anyone with a phone can publish to millions, and audiences publish back. Shift from one-to-many broadcast to many-to-many networks.
Matters most for people and communities rarely heard in traditional media, who can now tell their own stories and organize. But a louder crowd is not automatically fairer: reach still depends on access, algorithms, and who already has an audience.

Case study

System: social media platforms let individuals post text, images, and video to a public audience and spread a shared hashtag.
Specifics: from 2017 the #MeToo hashtag was used millions of times as people shared experiences of harassment, expression mainstream media had rarely carried.
Impacts and implications: it moved private experiences into public view and pressured institutions to respond, while raising risks of pile-ons and unverified claims.
Concepts: expression and power, as people with little access to traditional media reached a global audience; social context.

Definition

Paywall

(on a website) an arrangement whereby access is restricted to users who have paid to subscribe to the site.

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Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit

Note

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Tip

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum.

Topic 1 - Introduction - Digital Society1 subtopic

Topic 2 - Concepts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 3 - Content - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 4 - Contexts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 5 - Challenges and Interventions - Digital Society (HL)3 subtopics

IB Digital Society 2.2A Expression and Its Importance Notes

Topic 1 - Introduction - Digital Society1 subtopic

Topic 2 - Concepts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 3 - Content - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 4 - Contexts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 5 - Challenges and Interventions - Digital Society (HL)3 subtopics

2.2A Expression and Its Importance

Expression as a Concept

Who Can Speak Now

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Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit

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2.2A Expression and Its Importance

Expression as a Concept

Who Can Speak Now

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