25 FEB 2016 by ideonexus
Old Media is Text-Centric; New Media is a Collage
Modern literacy has always meant being able to both read and write narrative in the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. Just being able to read is not sufficient.
For centuries, this has meant being able to consume and produce words through reading and writing and, to a lesser extent, listening and speaking. But the world of digital expression has changed all of this in three respects:
New media demand new literacies. Because of inexpensive, easy-to-use, widely distributed new med...
1 09 NOV 2015 by ideonexus
Far-Right Rhetoric is Profitable
Representative Tom Cole, an Oklahoman in the House Republican leadership and a former politics professor, said, “There’s a big difference between intellectual conservatism and what exists out there now. It’s much more populist in its orientation and much wider in its reach. This is not an elite opinion, a Bill Buckley sort of thing.” And in a nod to the new media’s greater profitability, Cole added, “While it’s conservative in its orientation, it’s a financially driven enterpr...Folksonomies: rhetoric cognitive bias
Folksonomies: rhetoric cognitive bias
13 FEB 2015 by ideonexus
Bypass Traditional Media to Avoid Divisions
There's no incentive for most members of Congress, on the House side at least, in congressional districts, to even bother trying to appeal. And a lot of it has to do with just unlimited money. So people are absorbing an entirely different reality when it comes to politics, even though the way they're living their lives and interacting with each other isn't that polarizing. So my advice to a future president is increasingly try to bypass the traditional venues that create divisions and try to...Folksonomies: new media
Folksonomies: new media
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notes05 AUG 2013 by ideonexus
Sociological Metaphors for the Public
Social science and philosophy have generated a vast number of other
metaphorical descriptions of the public, rooted in different and often scientific perspectives on systematicity and relation. These are technologies in the broad sense that they enable different kinds of questions to be asked. An account of these would include the public as:
A Physical System or Mass: This metaphor underwrites work in mass commu- nications and allows one to ask questions like “What is the impact of a given... 1 notes
notesMetaphors are an important means of understanding abstract concepts.
06 APR 2011 by ideonexus
No Book Will Be an Island
Yet the common vision of the library's future (even the e-book future) assumes that books will remain isolated items, independent from one another, just as they are on shelves in your public library. There, each book is pretty much unaware of the ones next to it. When an author completes a work, it is fixed and finished. Its only movement comes when a reader picks it up to animate it with his or her imagination. In this vision, the main advantage of the coming digital library is portability ...Kevin Kelly new media prediction that echoes why I use MemexPlex for logging my research.
06 APR 2011 by ideonexus
Newspapers, Unlike New Media, Can be Put Down
The intellectual shortcomings of past and present newspapers are, however, beside the point, because the real difference between today's video and yesterday's print is not content but context--a context in which the proliferating visual images and noises of the video/digital age permeate the minute-by-minute experience of our lives. Newspaper reading was a habit that accompanied the beginning or ending of each workday for millions; it did not constitute a continuous invasion of individual tho... 1 notes
notesNew media intrudes on us perpetually, with RSS feeds, television streaming, and music blaring. Newspapers and books are picked up in compartmentalized time, making them less intrusive and allowing us deeper engagement with them.
25 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
Media-User Typology (MUT) Identifies Five Types of Social...
User typesFrequency of useVariety of useTypical activityTypical platformStudiesOther labels
(1) Non-users
No use
No use
No
All
Largest of all user types
Non-Internet users, Off the net, Inactives, Non-users, Non-users, Anxiety,
(2) Sporadics
Low use
Low variety
No particular activity, low interest, newcomers
All
Found in 20 studies
Followers, Sporadics, Laggards, Confused and Adverse, Followers, Indifferents, Indifferent, Media Lite, Average users, Inexperienced experimenters, Risk-averse dou... 1 notes
notesA table of different Social Media user types and their characteristics.
ToDo: Fixe white space style for this table.
