The Green Hornet is back…again. The venerable crime-fighter, who is older than both Superman and Batman, returns in 2011 with a new movie adaptation starring Seth Rogen (40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked-up) as the masked vigilante. This will be another in a series of adaptations of The Green Hornet, which started as a radio [...]
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Last night at its annual awards dinner, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights presented Bono and Wyclef Jean with the organization’s 2009 Ripple of Hope Award. The award recognizes the bold leadership demonstrated by the two honorees on humanitarian issues. “As champions of justice, Bono and Wyclef have brought the national spotlight to human rights violations, empowered local activists, and transformed the lives of millions of people living in poverty from Port-Au-Prince to Darfur,” said Kerry Kennedy, founder of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights. “Their efforts evoke the spirit of my father and we are honored to recognize them.”
This is the missing textbook to the course that everyone is taking. In it Levinson not only enumerates the various classes of new new media and their relationships with older forms, such as newspaper to blog or television to YouTube, he also, through means of germane examples from the contemporary political and social sphere, illustrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of each of these new forms, making it an excellent primer for thoughtful engagement with the unfolding culture.
Historic event expected to continue upward trend in mobile television viewership evidenced during the 2008 presidential campaign EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ — MobiTV will bring a historic event to mobile devices, airing President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration live on Tuesday, January 20 beginning at 6 a.m. ET. MobiTV’s more than 5 million subscribers can tune [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ — The legendary Motown Records celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a series of promotions and releases from Berry Gordy’s groundbreaking company and Universal Music Enterprises, including a series of online podcasts featuring rare and intimate conversations with the label’s legends, producers, songwriters and singers, which started on [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Four leading education and business organizations — CoSN, ISTE, SIIA and SETDA — today applauded President-Elect Barack Obama’s call to invest in technology for the classroom as part of the forthcoming economic recovery package and urged targeted action by Congress. The groups endorsed the President-Elect’s goals to “equip tens [...]
Eric Steuer, January 13th, 2009, Doha, Qatar Al Jazeera Network today announced the world’s first repository of broadcast-quality video footage released under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Select Al Jazeera video footage – at this time, footage of the War in Gaza – will be available for free to be downloaded, shared, remixed, subtitled [...]
Rogen Returns to SXSW Film Festival With Jody Hill’s ‘Observe and Report’ AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ — The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced today additional titles and guest speakers for this year’s Festival, March 13 – 21, 2009 in Austin, Texas. Among the new titles unveiled is the Warner [...]
Read the pull article excerpted here from Kingston Life. Using Second Life, the popular “virtual world” Internet game, the Loyalist project simulates real-life scenarios for students in the Customs and Immigration program. It was created by academic and New Media Services manager Ken Hudson and his in-house team of animation arts students at the college’s [...]
I just had a chance to test out the new Gmail video and voice chat application with friends Mark Bell and Sarah Robbins from Second Life for Dummies fame. I’m not a big fan of the video chat, and in the past I have discussed many reasons why people resist the “video phone,” which mostly [...]
