Tech Forward?
One of the greatest challenges faced by old media today is how to translate online/electronic/web offerings into something that is not a simple electronic translation of the often paper of analog intended product. No surprise the journalists, content creators, are not the people to look to. And designers might also be caught in the hype [...]
The Digital Future
Are you reading what is being written about the digital future? The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School is pleased to present the results of the tenth year of our project, “Surveying the Digital Future.” The ten years of longitudinal research comprise an absolutely unique data base that completely captures broadband [...]
Teens and Media
How switched on to teens and media are you? Nielsen has done a little study that is well worth a look. But what is rather interesting is that for all the hype that teens are in a very different media environment than adults today, they seem to be rather grounded according to this report. Here [...]
Hamsterizing Journalism?
Are journalists becoming hamsters? Maybe! News is changing. Reporting is changing. Newsroom and news outlet management is changing. Yet the fundamentals and models that we are measuring against are not changing. Are we looking at a problem? The Project for Excellence in Journalism said in a 2008 report: In today’s newspapers, stories tend to be gathered faster and under [...]
Teens and the Internet
(Reuters Health) – One in every 25 teens had “problematic Internet use” in a new study of high school students from Connecticut. Are we doing enough to make our youth aware of the risk and danger to their physical and mental health with excessive internet consumption? This Reuters article should make us all sit back [...]
News 2.0?
How do we attract more eyes to the news? If there was a simple answer journalism schools world-wide would be churning out new grads to rise to the challenge. The problem is there is no clear road ahead and journalism schools are struggling to attract new students. Journalism professors are quick to utter the word [...]
Where is the New UAE Media?
Teaching in a College of Communication and Media Sciences I listen, painfully, to people talking about new media, convergent media, digital media and the list goes on. And at some point in the conversation the issue of quality is brought up. The the issue of funding is tossed into the mix. The conversation ends with [...]
WEB 3.0 and the Canadian Digital Media Network
The cloud, WEB2.0, twitter, facebook, Netflix, apps, it would seem no matter where you turn our economy and thought process are in some way being directly impacted upon by WEB based technology. The problem with our increasingly WEB influenced social mentality is that the parts that make up the whole of our WEB aided society [...]
What can you live without
OK, what if you had to give up some of the modern conveniences? Could you say no to TV, Radio, Film, Mobiles or Game Consoles? I grew up on TV. I grew up watching Sesame Street. Yet today TV is becoming a smaller part of the lives of our youth. I am surprised. Young [...]
How to read media
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOJHVdZbJ0[/youtube] Do these videos work? How do we teach our students to look at images and find the other story? Visual Media Literacy is becoming more important today than ever before. It is one thing to decipher text but what if there are no words? The challenge is to get students to start thinking and talking about [...]
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