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I believe the democratization of just about everything is a good thing, but practically every conflict we read about centers in some ways on institutions desperately trying to hang onto control. Politics, business, education and media are being transformed against their will.
Our work at the Pew Internet Project and the University of Toronto’s NetLab (especially research for the Connected Lives Project) does not support the fear that the digital technologies are killing society. Our evidence is that these technologies are not isolated — or isolating — systems. They are being incorporated into people’s social lives much like their predecessors were.<br /><br />
We won’t be discussing offline and online as categories as almost everything will be consumed digitally. Any discussion of mobile advertising will vanish because most everything by then will be mobile. There also won’t be a large distinction between “national” and “local” because targeting has become audience-based and, when you look at the data, everything becomes local.
Martha Payne had some sad-ass lunches at her school in Scotland — unsatisfying food that sometimes had more hair than vegetables. So the 9-year-old decided to start a blog with photos and vital statistics about her meals. Almost immediately, the blog got international attention,
Niche publishers with venerable brands, captive audiences or business-critical content such as the Financial Times can afford to go behind a paywall and still make money. But what of those publishers whose products might be classy and attractive, but not unique or special enough? Mail Online’s success raises an awkward question for publishers of general-interest content going down the paywall route: is it really such a smart thing to do?
White House launches new digital government strategy
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel and CTO Todd Park say open data will be the new default.
NPR and Sunday morning political talk shows are the most informative news outlets, while exposure to partisan sources, such as Fox News and MSNBC, has a negative impact on people’s current events knowledge.
Head of Swiss J School argues for professionalisation - and expansion - of journalism
Eric Newton, senior adviser to the President at Knight Foundation, gave the keynote address this morning a national conference of journalism educators, “Journalism Education in the Digital Age,” at Middle Tennessee State University. The talk was delivered from this text:
This study analyses changing trends in UK television news over the last 35 years. It extends the content analysis of our first study, From Callaghan to Kosovo (published in 2000) to 2009, thereby creating the most comprehensive longitudinal study of UK television news to date.
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Philip Gould contemplates life and death during his last weeks
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