Today we continued our viewing of the last powerpoint presentation from the first portion of the semester. We covered topics such as historical people in the media, concentration of ownership, "MoJo's" (mobile journalists), corporate journalism and citizen media. These topics really hit home for me given my background in the CMJ department here at UMaine.
Mainly we discussed the pros and cons of the debate between corporate journalism and citizen media. While corporate media can give you expertise and strong professional values, you can get a more diverse range of coverage and enthusiasm from citizen based media coverage.
It is imperative to realize that both kinds of media have there drawbacks and selling points, but together, they create a competitive environment that can only benefit readership in the future.
Two key points were brought up at the end of the lecture; the first being that peer to peer will dominate the future of journalism and the second was posed in the form of a question: How are the forces of media effecting us?
To answer this question I would refer back 4 years ago to my freshman year here in cmj 100 with Paul Grosswiler. In that class we underwent a 24 hour media free experience. For an entire 24 hours students were required to not use any form of electronics, print, or technological devices such as laptops, cellphones, email, newspapers, books... It was a wild experience because most of us realized we simply couldn't. Our technology runs our life, and the media uses that technology to influence our daily decisions.
Wednesday 10-28Mainly we discussed the pros and cons of the debate between corporate journalism and citizen media. While corporate media can give you expertise and strong professional values, you can get a more diverse range of coverage and enthusiasm from citizen based media coverage.
It is imperative to realize that both kinds of media have there drawbacks and selling points, but together, they create a competitive environment that can only benefit readership in the future.
Two key points were brought up at the end of the lecture; the first being that peer to peer will dominate the future of journalism and the second was posed in the form of a question: How are the forces of media effecting us?
To answer this question I would refer back 4 years ago to my freshman year here in cmj 100 with Paul Grosswiler. In that class we underwent a 24 hour media free experience. For an entire 24 hours students were required to not use any form of electronics, print, or technological devices such as laptops, cellphones, email, newspapers, books... It was a wild experience because most of us realized we simply couldn't. Our technology runs our life, and the media uses that technology to influence our daily decisions.
Today we were delighted to have the ever engaging and enthralling Joline Blais come in and talk to us about home. It was confusing at first because none of us were expecting to hear what she was talking about. I found myself writing down notes that I wasn't sure I would ever use. But now as I look back on them I realize where she was going with her presentation. It is the importance of realizing how much home means to us.
It is scary to see how much we are advancing as a culture, and at the same time as we delve exponentially into this endless future, we must keep our hearts in the place in which we came from. Most technologies today don't appreciate and use the advantages that our indigenous roots can give us.
The portion of her talk that really hit home for me was her discussion on touching and the importance of physical contact. it seems that we have gone away from these important values. We fear touch. It makes us uncomfortable and sexually, it is harming our culture. Sex is seen as something taboo and is not to be talked about. In terms of sexual education, this is the main reason we are struggling as a country.
Friday 10-30
Today we talked about the spoken word. I loved today's class. The first thing we did was check out Story Corps. What an ingenious idea! People have the most amazing stories and insights to share but for the most part, they are unable to share these experiences with mankind.
New Media gives these people that opportunity. That is the key point I took away from today's lecture. This documentary art form gives us access to stories that the general public would never else have heard. It is a teaching tool that is used for the betterment of mankind, and I couldn't think of something much more useful and effective as this.
Readings
"Privacy is Dead and Social Media Hold Smoking Gun"- Interesting concept. I don't entirely see the reason for it, or would in no way want it to be part of my life but I can see how some people are obsessed with their daily lives enough to want this. During the article they mention Flickr, and mention how it was initially ambitious of them to make pictures public by default. And how we look back on it now and it is a no-brainer... that is how we see pictures now-a-days... they are useless unless other people can see them.
This makes us think of privacy... is it such a bad thing that it is dead? Sure, there are places you can go for privacy. I choose not to be a member of a social networking site. the choice to keep your life private is still yours. That right has not been taken away from us. It is still our choice what we choose to involve ourselves with.
"Augmented Reality"-"We need to run and fall and get up again and get going." In other
words, get ready for augmented reality everywhere. And after that, we'll see AR where it
makes sense.
This quote makes complete sense to me. I have seen AR in many places and particularly during football games that I watch on TV. It works there. It serves a purpose. But in order to get people aware of, and truly appreciate it, I agree with the article. We need to be integrated into it. I would call it awareness through submersion. Put AR in any place you can, once we can all recognize it and associate with it, we can find where we need it most, and it will flourish in those spots.
This certainly may not be the model for all emerging technologies out there but it certainly has its place in AR.
"Decline of the Hollywood System"- Since I have taken such classes as the history of mass communication, and various other communication history classes, I have heard and read through this time in history before. the times of the 1940's seemed too good to be true. We had come out of the depression so fast and so furiously that there just had to be someone out there who was cheating and getting an unfair advantage.
Given that the Nickelodeons had just came out during the 20's, it is no surprise that the American Film Industry were the ones to take the bait in terms of cashing in on an opportunity to completely monopolize the arena of film.
Although the FTC sent them into a downward spiral that it seems they still will never recover from, it is all for the best as others have risen to the occasion without the need to use dirty tactics such as were used before by the Hollywood system.
"Sony to offer film on Internet TV, then DVD"- I love this article. this is just what I want to see in terms of the future of entertainment. New Releases for movies, games, music... it should all be made available online. We have a culture that obsesses with getting things as quickly as we possibly can. This allows for those users to be fully satisfied. We all have busy lives. We can't afford to take a trip out into the city to go buy the latest entertainment.
Not even to mention the possible traffic. No one wants to deal with that anymore. Our world is hectic and many would like to avoid the hectic city as much as they possibly can. I can't remember the last time I've actually sat in a movie theater... it is relatively unheard of now-a-days in my generation. We can stream everything as fast as we want, whenever we want, wherever we want.
it's everything we have had in the past, except personalized. Sony is hitting on this, and that is precisely what everyone else should be doing.
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