“The medium is the message,” I’ve heard many times this semester. But I never really understood what it meant until I stumbled upon Mark Federman’s explanation. He explains that this famous quote infers that we as society tends to focus on the obvious and miss out on the subtle changes in our structural affairs. The [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Queen of New Media: Perez Hilton
Posted in Perez Hilton on March 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With his oversize persona, Mario Laveindera, aka, Perez Hilton realised way back in 2004 that it was easier to become a famous blogger instead of a famous actor. His first account was with Blogger, which soon evolved into a hot pink Perezhilton.com. Th e celebrity gossip site is known for its enormous amount of traffic [...]
Blog Culture Ripping up Book for Outsourcing Services and Technology Media Industry
Posted in Blogs= Diversification of Information on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Because of the sudden growth of the blog culture, it is radically changing the ways we are used to having media delivered to us. Suddenly, opinionated experts have access to the industry which they never had before. Because we can constantly be updated with news, for once we can be a part of the debate. [...]
Death of Film Criticism
Posted in Blog + Film Criticism on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Article highlighting the shift in “power” from the classic “professorial lecturer” with superior knowledge who critics films and the industry versus the online average Joe and his opinion. A prime example is Harry Knowles vs. Siskel and Ebert; a blogger who shares a devoted passion for films who states basically taking away credibility from Siskel [...]
Memory Bytes: Dematerialization of media (p.200)
Posted in New Media in Bytes on March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Author Lisa Gitelman makes an analogy where the telegraph is the old connection between point to point communication and point to point travel. Today’s digital technologies allows communication to be virtually freed information limited of its physicality: i.e. books, pages and files. Moments of media transition when things seem particularly dependent and far from inevitable [...]
Forbes: Blogs Move in On Old Media Territory
Posted in Blog vs Old Media on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to this online article, blogging is a simple process of publishing and distribution of words. Anyone with internet can share their thoughts with the world within seconds and at virtually no cost. The blogsphere draws on a wider range of media, spanning text, image, audio, video and software applications. As a consequence, media is [...]
A Bloggers Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium
Posted in Bloggers vs Journalist on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In this research paper the authors explain that the relationship between bloggers and journalist are complicated. Journalist feel strongly intimidated by today’s bloggers ability quickly cover new material. However, on the other hand, journalist also snub bloggers because of their lack of credibility for their sources and their lack to respect the code of neutrality. [...]
YouTube: State of the Internet
Posted in Quick Facts on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fun facts: 1.73 billion people are connected to the internet around the world 2.26 million blogs on the world wide web
The Decline of the Music Industry
Posted in Music Industry Decline on March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the past couple of years, the record industry “has plunged into a historic decline.” Today major labels are struggling to reinvent their business models in the face of widespread piracy, consumers growing preference for low profit margin. However, in the article record executives seem to understand that their problem is structural: the internet has [...]
