tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65463715202601436642024-08-30T03:09:59.995-07:00Notes on evolving paradigms and practices from the world of media. Posted by Professor Leo Aristimuño primarily for students of "Convergence Culture," an undergraduate course taught at the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, at Rutgers University, Newark.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546371520260143664.post-65301549687250365502011-10-05T10:30:00.001-07:002011-10-05T10:30:52.305-07:00

ANother article on Facebook's evolving"contextual"  advertising strategy. From Mashable "Facebook's New Advertising Strategy is Brilliant and Unexpected"

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Remember how Jenkins describes the Survivor fan & spoiler community as an emerging form of collective intelligence? Remember how he describes us being in a stage of apprenticeship? He says that eventually, we'd figure out ways to apply the spoiling process to more serious matters. Well, here is collective intelligence at work on a more serious "puzzle." "Online gamers have achieved a

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Here are two recent articles on Facebook's latest evolution: With 'real-time' apps, Facebook is always watching - This article discusses how Facebook is developing context-specific applications and information exchange. Remember Web 3.0 & "contextual" web.Does Facebook really care about you?In this article, media scholar and critic Doug Rushkoff discusses the changes in Facebook's

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As discussed in class today,  here is  link to Nielsen's website. This link shows you TV ratings from September 2008. Once there, look around the site to see the various articles describing how Nielsen is tracking audiences across new platforms. Remember, Nielsen's ratings are how audiences are measured so that media corporations can then sell air time -and "eyeballs" - to

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546371520260143664.post-12789034810748725022011-09-17T21:41:00.000-07:002011-09-17T21:41:36.065-07:00

This recent article on Mashable discusses how crowdsourcing is impacting the nature of storytelling, the role of gatekeepers, readers, and authors in an age of convergence.  How do these changes parallel transformations in other media industries? How is this an example of shifts in our cultural logic? 

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546371520260143664.post-45384282268634651652011-09-16T10:28:00.000-07:002011-09-16T10:28:05.590-07:00

A TV industry exec provides great perspective on the impact that smart phones are having on our TV viewing habits. Also, how advertising and TV execs are scrambling for new models to get our eyeballs and monetize on these new viewing habits. Check out his article here

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546371520260143664.post-63905109042765518562011-02-11T20:01:00.000-08:002011-02-11T20:01:50.316-08:00

2045: The Year Man Becomes ImmortalA fascinating article about The Singularity, the point at which computers become more intelligent than mankind...at which point we will, arguably, witness the transformation of our species into something that is no longer recognizable as such to humanity circa 2011. This transformation has a name: the Singularity. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/

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Today, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resigned. Protesters were successful. A brutal regime overthrown. What role did social media play? "Ask Facebook." Read Article

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In an unprecedented turn of events, Egypt has cut off virtually all access to the Internet, reports here on Renesys and here on CNN leaving the country off the grid. Authorities there have also cut off cell phone services. Of course, this is an attempt to silence dissent, to limit access to news stories, and to prevent political protesters from using the web as a tool with which to organize.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546371520260143664.post-53897645074090811462011-01-26T12:38:00.000-08:002011-01-26T12:38:38.995-08:00

January 27th, 2011, at 2:30 EST President Obama will answer questions submitted by YouTube viewers. Submit yours & tune in to watch. Your Interview With the President

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Three articles from the NY Times Magazine (1/2/11) provide three examples of how convergence of digital technologies is fundamentally changing or affecting our culture and our paradigms about ourselves & the world. My Cart, My Self: Are we the Sum (or Algorithmic equation) of our Purchases? Rewired: The ideological Implications of our New Fiber-Optice Infrastructure Global Entertainment:

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Check out this article from CNN on unfolding events in Egypt as Egyptians contune their protests against their authoritarian government. The important thing for our class is to consider how new communication technologies like Facebook and Twitter are affecting (1) the way citizens can inform and organize themselves and (2) the way journalists (and the rest of the world) learn about events on the

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546371520260143664.post-34039117011339638212011-01-25T11:58:00.000-08:002011-01-25T11:58:14.305-08:00

The following links refer to media shown in Convergence class on Tuesday, Jan 25th. Ted Talks Video: Tim Berners Lee on the history and the evolution of the "next" (i.e. semantic) web. A brief description of the evolution across web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us Another description of Web 2.0, with examples and discussion of the technologies that make it possible.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546371520260143664.post-65411682780725775022011-01-18T19:23:00.000-08:002011-01-18T19:23:30.619-08:00

Teen Tech Incubators needed in urban centers. From BlackWeb2.0. "The adoption and literacy of technology for inner-city youth should be our primary concern." (Interesting dialogue in comments section also).

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If you haven't done so yet, here's how: A great example of new technologies going beyond "playful apprenticeship" to making serious, real-world change.

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If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage?...A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let people zoom in on what is happening closest to them, often without involving traditional journalists. Read more at The New York Times, April 12, 2009 A few local samples of "local" blogs - though of a different nature than those

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Blogger Norman Oder discusses the future of newspapers & journalism, particularly in relation to the emergence of blogs. He summarizes key points from a recent Senate hearing on the newspaper crisis (watch video). Oder also connects the conversation about the future of journalism to the development of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. The most contentious issue, via Gawker and the New

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Check out this article from NAMAC on how transmedia storytelling can be used to educate audiences, form communities, and address social issues. “transmedia activism” is one of the best ways to have people connect to a cause, by exposing them to a variety of media properties over various distribution channels—which opens up avenues for dialogue and provides an audience an educational experience

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546371520260143664.post-50554800560238992009-11-17T20:29:00.000-08:002009-11-17T20:29:22.152-08:00

CNN reports singer Courtney Love is getting sued for writing derogatory tweets about a designer. A tenant is sued for tweeting about (or is it defaming) a "bad" landlord. But that's not all! Sexual harassment? Jurisdiction? Inheritance? Anonymity? There are so many issues when you stop to think about it. Can the law keep up? "It's a time of cultural shift and this is going to take a while to

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546371520260143664.post-54545409173451220162009-11-15T21:31:00.000-08:002009-11-15T21:31:18.616-08:00

AFP story, published on here on Yahoo 11/15/09. If link expires, try this link Rupert Murdoch, who is considering charging internet users a fee to read stories from his newspapers, is accusing Google "of 'stealing' from his vast newspaper empire" and is threatening to "block the search engine from accessing its content." The newspaper industry, hurting for revenues in the age of the free

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546371520260143664.post-29877004315008753342009-11-15T21:17:00.000-08:002009-11-15T21:48:47.631-08:00

Prolific author and N.Y. Times Columnist Ken Auleta speaks about his latest book Googled: The End of the World as We Know It on WYNC's Leonard Lopate Show. A fascinating account of Google's rise and its impact on our culture and media landscape, including the newspaper, television, telephone, and advertising industries. Listen at around Min 11:00 when he talks about why these changes pose

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"ABC Social: Episode Commentary is a new ABC Full Episode Player feature offering unique insight directly from show experts and fans, creating a more informative and entertaining viewing experience." Spoiling is now officially sanctioned and virtually embedded into a show's on-line presence. Here is a media company embracing collective intelligence and participatory fan engagement, viral

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Here is a raw compilation of links related to Jenkins' Chapter "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars" on the dynamic relationship between media companies, franchises, and fan communities.  Near the end is a quick set of links to mash-ups on YouTube. Feel free to add suggestions via the Comments section below. Links

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CNN Reporter John Sutter hunts for "The Cloud" and finds lots of secrecy. While more and more of us use and rely on cloud computing, we, like John, don't really know where our files really live. John's story takes us across the world to a growing number of huge, bricks and mortar data centers. A short video also explains the basics of cloud computing. In the video below, CNET's reporter Ida

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Scroll down to watch OUTFOXED. Brave New Film's work is a great example of political activism and documentary production in the age of convergence. They employ e-mail lists, social networking, and viral strategies at the core of their production and distribution strategies. Their videos become central to broader on-line political activism. This documentary is one of their first works. They were

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