By Mindy McAdams
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At my university, we are playing host to 17 journalism educators from 17 countries, most of which are “developing” rather than “developed.” We have arranged six weeks of lectures, workshops and travel for them with the goal of increasing their understanding of how we practice and teach journalism in the U.S.
Of course they all use [...]
From an excellent New York Magazine story about the way twenty-somethings bare all online and seem to have very different opinions about personal privacy from those of us forty-somethings:
Shirky describes this generational shift in terms of pidgin versus Creole. “Do you know that distinction? Pidgin is what gets spoken when people patch things together from [...]
PaidContent is keeping an eye on MySpace and the other social sites popular among young people:
MySpace had 6 per cent more visits than Bebo last week but three months ago that was 39 per cent. Bebo has already overtaken MySpace in terms of session duration which averages around 25 minutes. Faceparty and Facebook have both [...]
What are “new media,” anyway? Vin Crosbie has updated his really long article about new media, and it’s good. I disagree with his central idea, but it’s still good.
Much of what he wrote needed to be said — especially that a lot of people don’t know what a “medium” is, much less what “media” are. [...]
David Carr got it wrong when he analyzed the meaning of the Star Tribune’s reaction to employees taking copies of the newspaper without paying for them:
There is an implicit broader message. If the people who make the paper believe that an electronic version of the product is just as good as the one readers pay [...]
Newsweek made a good effort at capturing the online zeitgeist in this past week’s cover story, but here are some things they didn’t include:
Many people have neither the time nor sufficient interest to use the “cheap geeky software tools known as the Web’s ‘connective tissue.’” The question is, does that make those who do use [...]
Pierre who? Yeah, I know. So I read this very nice (and SHORT) piece written by the always excellent Katha Pollitt on the occasion of Bourdieu’s death in 2002.
While reading Bourdieu’s (also very SHORT) book On Television, I can’t help but marvel at how the Internet is hardly even mentioned (I think he might have [...]
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