Report from Digital Hollywood Confab
When my book Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation came out in 2005, the Hollywood studios were still doing…
Advertising and Information Asymmetry Online
Mark Andrejevic: Living through the ’90s, there was this euphoric set of predictions about the empowering and democratizing capacity of…
Navigating World News With a Wii
Most of you have probably heard of the Nintendo Wii, an increasingly popular video game system that features motion controls.…
Gone, But Not Forgotten
I’ve unexpectedly been thinking a bit lately about how news organizations cover death and the lifes lived by the recently…
“Now” Trumps “Me” by Putting Us All in the Newsroom
This scene took place at the Journalism that Matters conference in DC and it relates to one of those little…
From “Informing” to “Empowering”
For me, our new Center for Future Civic Media at MIT provides an opportunity to weave together several strands of…
What’s Not News? Unflattering Trivialities, Opinions on Planet’s Shape, and Fake Press Conferences
We can make some easy progress defining news by instead listing what’s not news. Paul Krugman interviewed by Rory O’Connor:…
Locative Media and Embedding Stories in Place
We are a little more than a week away from heading down to the Mississippi Delta to start our project:…
Am I Really Worth $300 as a Facebook User?
“I do not plan on being on Facebook too much anymore — seems like a waste of time & it…
Top 5 Week Eighty-Three
Friend of Microsoft Redmond buys Facebook stake, reviving bubble talk Web 3.0 An immersive, smarter web; will they rename confab?…