Here's a really interesting column from The Week talking about how Jon Stewart could possibly be the most influential television personality after the build up to and subsequent dismantling of Jim Cramer.
It's a good read, and if you haven't watched any of the Stewart vs. CNBS/Cramer stuff, you should. Very interesting how the comedian has had to take over as the window to the deeper issues that have wrought havoc with mainstream media.
How'd all this start? Watch these below:
The Beginning
In Cramer we Trust
The Personality Clash
The Battle Previewed
Then the three-part Finale above.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
SocialMedia creates social advertising
I found this article at TechCrunch. This goes along with the Amazon type of advertising that Jenkins talked about in Convergence Culture, except it's not really tailored to your liking. Personally, I don't think it will fly. It seems like it will turn into those annoying forwards or bulletin posts on MySpace.
Decent idea and will probably get traffic from really bored people, but I think it might annoy users over a certain age, say 25 or so. That said, if you're on my friend's list, don't send me this s#!$.
Read the article here: social ads
Decent idea and will probably get traffic from really bored people, but I think it might annoy users over a certain age, say 25 or so. That said, if you're on my friend's list, don't send me this s#!$.
Read the article here: social ads
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Theory Trading Cards!
Theory.org.uk Trading Cards offers 32 online trading cards featuring famous social theorists. I thought this would be good inspiration for writing our papers! Pick a card, any card, there's sure to be one right for you!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Follow up post from Josh
Wanted to share a couple things that I didn't get to during my presentation.
Jon Stewart blasting away at Twitter:
And Jon completely taking CNBC to the cleaners about their "reporting" and rosy crystal ball commentary about the economy. Rick Santelli – the "reporter" that went ape on the trading floor complaining about bailouts – was supposed to be a guest on The Daily Show, but was a no show. Well, like when McCain bailed on Letterman, you don't bail on high profile talk show hosts.
CNBC didn't have a response it seems.
And one more:
Here's a blog/bitch session about Lessig's Creative Commons undermining the photography market. I can see points on both sides of the issue and still haven't decided what to really think about it. Very tricky to navigate some of them. If there are lots of "good enough" images that can be used under CC licenses why pay for images? Yet, if a art director or someone of the like needed quality work and found a photo through CC and licensed other images from a photographer for market prices the system worked, right? Still don't know...
Jon Stewart blasting away at Twitter:
And Jon completely taking CNBC to the cleaners about their "reporting" and rosy crystal ball commentary about the economy. Rick Santelli – the "reporter" that went ape on the trading floor complaining about bailouts – was supposed to be a guest on The Daily Show, but was a no show. Well, like when McCain bailed on Letterman, you don't bail on high profile talk show hosts.
CNBC didn't have a response it seems.
And one more:
Here's a blog/bitch session about Lessig's Creative Commons undermining the photography market. I can see points on both sides of the issue and still haven't decided what to really think about it. Very tricky to navigate some of them. If there are lots of "good enough" images that can be used under CC licenses why pay for images? Yet, if a art director or someone of the like needed quality work and found a photo through CC and licensed other images from a photographer for market prices the system worked, right? Still don't know...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
discussion of Living and Learning with New Media
What’s the goal of the study? And what do you think of the researchers approach, methods, conceptual foundations?
What do they mean by networked publics and how do they factor into understanding digital youth?
Who else have we read that makes a smilar argument? And what are some examples of this?
What are some of the barriers youth face to online participation?
How does the report characterize new forms of media literacy?
Why is peer-based learning so effective in some circumstances?
What recommendations do they make for parents and educators?
What do they mean by networked publics and how do they factor into understanding digital youth?
Who else have we read that makes a smilar argument? And what are some examples of this?
What are some of the barriers youth face to online participation?
How does the report characterize new forms of media literacy?
Why is peer-based learning so effective in some circumstances?
What recommendations do they make for parents and educators?
Aaliayh's Respondent Post to "Living and Learning with Digital Media"
In the summary of the white paper “Living and Learning in digital media...” the researchers look at the way that young people are interacting with digital tools and how technology is becoming a bigger part of growing up for young and how it is an extension of their education.
The part that I found interesting was the division of participation among youth into three different categories: messing around , geeking out, and hanging out. New Media is definitely changing the way that people interact and younger groups are finding new ways to use the technology to their advantage it is creating an environment where children are teaching adults how to use New Media to interact with their peers. Increasingly, teenagers are using New Media as a way of enhancing “hanging out” with their friends by coming together to create projects that they may post online. Teenagers go to their friends houses and often use New Media tools to interact with other friends and express themselves with the media via Youtube, Myspace and Facebook.
It extends far past gaming, to a point where teens interact not only offline but online as well and they use the media to create both an online and offline identity. The online and offline identity seems to becoming one instead of two different things. It seems that the lines of friendship are also shifting. Online tools continue to enhance personal friendships but it also closes the gaps between superficial relationships and forces us to make a connection to others even if it is just friending someone on Facebook.
I hope that this increased interaction of youth online will lead teenagers and growing children to adapt a more global perspective because New Media has the potential to connect different communities across different countries. New Media opens up possibilities of uniting different groups against a common foe or to fight for a cause. I think about the Harry Potter communities coming together to fight against movie studios. Using New Media as a form of education is a problem adults have to learn to accept and use the tools to their advantage because youth are becoming more and more New Media savvy.
Documentary "Growing Up Online"
The part that I found interesting was the division of participation among youth into three different categories: messing around , geeking out, and hanging out. New Media is definitely changing the way that people interact and younger groups are finding new ways to use the technology to their advantage it is creating an environment where children are teaching adults how to use New Media to interact with their peers. Increasingly, teenagers are using New Media as a way of enhancing “hanging out” with their friends by coming together to create projects that they may post online. Teenagers go to their friends houses and often use New Media tools to interact with other friends and express themselves with the media via Youtube, Myspace and Facebook.
It extends far past gaming, to a point where teens interact not only offline but online as well and they use the media to create both an online and offline identity. The online and offline identity seems to becoming one instead of two different things. It seems that the lines of friendship are also shifting. Online tools continue to enhance personal friendships but it also closes the gaps between superficial relationships and forces us to make a connection to others even if it is just friending someone on Facebook.
I hope that this increased interaction of youth online will lead teenagers and growing children to adapt a more global perspective because New Media has the potential to connect different communities across different countries. New Media opens up possibilities of uniting different groups against a common foe or to fight for a cause. I think about the Harry Potter communities coming together to fight against movie studios. Using New Media as a form of education is a problem adults have to learn to accept and use the tools to their advantage because youth are becoming more and more New Media savvy.
Documentary "Growing Up Online"
Monday, March 2, 2009
The Snuggy
The new media douche bags video made me think of this video, the web site intervention for myspace.
And I could not stop laughing at this.
And I could not stop laughing at this.
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