Media Mindfulness

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What We Call the News | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab

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Ciao! I though I’d alert all the readers out there that I have a new article posted on Understanding Media about the issue of “authenticity” and youth marketing. The site also has a short interview that explains a little bit about where my perspective comes from. Here’s a snip:
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It’s no wonder that obesity and diabetes are growing so fast in the US:
* 34% of All Food Ads Targeting Children or Teens Are for Candy and Snacks
* Half of All Ads Shown During Children’s Shows Are for Food

New Study Finds That Food Is the Top Product Seen Advertised by Children - Kaiser Family Foundation:
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The Album, a Commodity in Disfavor - New York Times:

Last year, digital singles outsold plastic CD’s for the first time. So far this year, sales of digital songs have risen 54 percent, to roughly 189 million units, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. Digital album sales are rising at a slightly faster pace, but buyers […]

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In case you haven’t noticed, here at Media Mindfulness science fiction is very popular. Here’s another movie trailer for a sci-fi book, this one for Greg Bear’s Eon. I like this trend, although I hope the images from the clip don’t spoil the ones from your imagination. I remember seeing the Hobbit animated and being […]

Everybody must watch The Daversity Code (by the people who made The Meatrix).

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Sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling on future cities. Here he surveys contemporary Belgrade, but demonstrates how the present future composts the past. What he writes is very similar to what I see in Rome. Life goes on, cities mutate, people adapt and change their environments.
(Via BoingBoing)

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A clever marketing trick: make a commercial from a fictional product in your book that is unusual, strange and sexy. Add YouTube and the blogosphere, mix and you have a meme. Additionally the Web tie-in is similar to what the ABC series Lost has done with its show by constructing a parallel universe on the […]

This nice little animation of Alan Watts commenting on the folly of education and other things. Very nice. Enjoy! (Thanks Rob!)

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Using the term digital ethnorati, Steve Wilmarth from The Center for 21st Century Skills presented at South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin. Here is a Flickr slide link to his interesting Digital Ethnorati panel presentation.
Also, check out AfroGeeks.

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Need to know what’s emanating from the techno-humanosphere?
Technology Review: 10 Emerging Technologies 2007:
As always, Technology Review’s annual list of emerging technologies to watch comprises projects in a broad range of fields, including medicine, energy, and the Internet. Some, such as optical antennas and meta­materials, are fundamental technologies that promise to transform multiple areas, from computing […]

I wish I could be there this summer! Click the link for more info.
Tufts University New Literacy:
Rather than squander the energy and attention that most students give to media, savvy educators know that it’s better to direct it in positive and pro-social ways.
But in the era of “accountability” and “standards-based education,” where does media literacy […]

The Global Urban Real Estate Boom - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com:
From San Francisco and Seattle to Moscow and Shanghai, prices for prime residential property are surging, even as overall national numbers in some markets continue to be depressed amid worries of global recession and a real-estate bubble. The triumph of the glamour cities turns […]

Time Magazine is being “webatized” (my term). Check out this interesting feature from Pentagram that examines the process of its design change:
New at Pentagram: New Work: TIME Magazine:
Paula Scher, who collaborated with Hayman on the redesign prototype, explained part of the thought process behind the project. “We created a system that we thought would resonate […]

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Writing about the need to shift our economic paradigm, Adbuster’s Kalle Lasn has a good overview of how this kind of change happens in the real world. My only beef with the arguments in the extended article is his use of old paradigm activist tactics, i.e. disruption, protest, etc. Though I think those tactics are […]

This is an amazing tool that “feels” the blogosphere’s emotions. Go to the site and click on “Open We Feel Fine” and see what happens. It’s quite an amazing voyeuristic view into the netropolis’ networked feelings, kinda like Vim Winders’ angels hearing everyone’s thoughts in Wings of Desire.

We Feel Fine / Movements:
Madness, the first movement, […]

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Finally a computer desktop interface that looks like mine!
For more info, click here.

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CteULike is an interesting self-organized library system for researchers and academics. You can create your own library of documents to share with others or simply find articles that others are referencing. Very cool. And it’s free.
CiteULike: Frequently Asked Questions:
What is CiteULike?
CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic […]