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.
As the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama nears, excitement for the celebration is building all over the world. In Canada, national broadcaster the CBC has launched a campaign to define Canadian culture for the incoming 44th President of the United States by collecting 49 songs from North of the 49th parallel. This song collection, aka [...]
