Media Mindfulness

The corporate media world loves to lock you out of sharing files. There have been more insidious acts of control as well, such as designating region codes for DVDs so that you are forced to buy media only for the region you live in. This has been a huge pain for me because after moving […]

A study that examines the monetization of relationships. Who’s your best bud now? Nike or Johnny?
Advertising Age - Digital - What’s Making ‘Friends’ With a MySpace User Worth?:
“It’s when I take the brand, put it on my profile page and then all the people would develop a deeper meaning for what Adidas stands for […]

Anastasia Goodstein of YPulse and author of Totally Wired refers to a great article in Wired about how some classrooms are getting smart about incorporating online social networks rather than resisting them. At the center of this paradigm shift is an interesting software package, Elgg. I think the idea of a DIY social network […]

Advertising Age - Caught in the Clutter Crossfire: Your Brand:
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Somewhere between 254 and 5,000 is a number that represents just how many commercial messages an average consumer gets each day. Attempts to beat clutter only end up yielding more of it, a bitter irony bound to have dire consequences for a […]

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.
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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 […]

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Sometimes you can feel an idea in the air and grab it. Before Wired came out with it’s Media Snack Attack, one visionary educator in the UK had already thought of the concept. He observed that youth were like media snackers and went on to create an innovative training around this idea. The website is […]

Steve Anderson of COA News has written a nice little summary of how some activist media portals are going Web 2.0:
Independent News Portal COAnews: coanews.org : Independent Media Goes Web 2.0:
With their exceptional popularity, these social web tools are increasingly important, and it is incredibly significant that independent media organizations are developing these tools […]

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Hey, nice handwriting! This video is in response to “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” which I posted about here (if you haven’t seen it, you really must!).
The text in the video reads as folllows:
Media philosopher Marshall McLuhan observed that “The Medium is the Message”. That is, the form of media is what changes consciousness irrespective […]

Yet again the new cultural practices of kids are getting demonized by left and right. Geeze, adults can be so lame sometimes. One article in particularly really got under my skin, “Mirror, Mirror on the Web” by Lakshmi Chaudhry. She thinks kids are too narcissistic. This is how I responded in my letter to The […]

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This video by Kansas State University’s Mike Wesch explains so much better than text as to why new media are in many ways vastly superior modes of production and communication, which begs the question: how is an education system based on 19th Century modes of thinking going to deal with this emerging reality? More […]

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This portrait, “YouTuber,” reflects a mix between the impulse of early actuality films when the form was still novel, and Warhol’s screen tests, which are motion portraits of fame. This video, of course, is an incomplete picture because there is a lot of other stuff going on at YouTube, mainly sharing media detritus and ephemera […]

What does “convergence” mean?
Web exclusive: ‘Technology and frustration’ by John Browning | Prospect Magazine February 2007 issue 131:
Technically, the internet treats all information flows alike, as digital data which can be edited, linked, searched, displayed or whatever. More important, it provides a common means of transmitting all of that information. While every previous new media […]

(Art by the amazing eBoy collective)
The article is called “Media Threat,” which is a terrible choice of words because everything the article is about concerns new media. Just because it’s interactive doesn’t mean it’s not media. And though interactive, social media my threaten old models, it doesn’t mean they are a threat per se. However, […]