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Our 'memestreme' project hangs in that relatively new camp of IT studies: 'New Media' NM.
Some of the workshop content we are constructing to augment the uptake of skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to operate in this sphere include the history of NM's evolution, its Global 'state of play', what's in the pipeline now... and excitingly, a bit of SF- speculative fiction on how we may look and feel as residents in that amorphous and resoulutely emerging future Matrix.
Right now with the advent of mobile computing and ubiquitous interconnectivity we are awash with new prototypes for a human 'being' and a human 'doing'. Follow the memestreme blog as we explore current NM adopted standards, nascent wannabes and possible futures.
News.
Have you ever wondered why TV and radio news is there on every comm channel you may hone in on... and it's basically free? TV soaps, documentaries, movies, cartoons etc are bought by the station, repackaged to include advertising and on-sold to you and I. News just hangs there, basically free.
This is about to change and one area where we can see tremors of uncertainty, as new News gathering and redistribution practices percolate to the user defined pedestal of 'best practice', is in that 19th century bastion of redistributed intel; the Newspaper. Lets start here.
The entire edifice that is the News Print behemoth is trying desperately to make out the writing on the wall. [Watch the video Saving Newspapers: The Musical, hot off the press from a gaggle of young reporters in a mainstream Boston news copy room] Newspaper sales are steady... downwards, and in these economically depressed times the incidence of classified advertising has plummeted to new lows further eroding user generated profits. Like General Motors, News Papers per se are desperate to re-invent themselves and there are some really interesting approaches happening, including some that would ultimately have us reading News from a position of Informed Consensual arrangement. Read all about it!
Have a go at this ABC/rn podcast "Read all about it!", there are 3 explorations of how you and I may be moving from the current 'one size fits all' News model [all the News we see fit to print] to a model of News based personalization driven by informed collaboration/consumption and brought about by the wonders of internet based interconnectedness.
Download file copy at ourmedia.org:
http://ourmedia.org/node/198411
Links to orgs discussed in the Audio blog:
http://ourmedia.org/node/198411
Links to orgs discussed in the Audio blog:
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