What happens when institutions and bureaucracies face off against the rapid influx of new technologies? In workplace cultures previously unaccustomed to accepting failure, such as government agencies, they are challenged to adjust perspectives and to allow the exploration of new technologies to follow an evolutionary course. This is the theme that Lovisa A. Williams, a [...]
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.
DULLES, Va., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — At 11:19 a.m. (EST) GeoEye-1, the world’s highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite, collected an image over the United States Capitol and the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken from 423 miles in space, is the world’s highest resolution, color satellite image of the Inaugural celebration. The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a great image for any 404 error page. Usually they are so dry and lack content or character. This 404 is on the opposite end of the spectrum, including graphics and, dare we say, comic sensibility. Tweet This Post
Twitter is an amazing social media phenomenon. The folks at Mashable have come up with the Ten Ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009. Tweet This Post
