Digitial Media

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• Digitial Media
• Joe Flintham
• http//www.stowaway.net/digi

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Rupert Murdoch

• What is happening is, in short, a revolution in
  the way young people are accessing news. They
  dont want to rely on the morning paper for their
  up-to-date information. They dont want to rely
  on a God-like figure from above to tell them
  whats important. And to carry the religion
  analogy a bit further, they certainly dont want
  news presented as gospel.

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More Murdoch

• Instead, they want their news on demand, when it
  works for them. They want control over their
  media, instead of being controlled by it. They
  want to question, to probe, to offer a different
  angle. ... give the people control of media,
  they will use it. Dont give people control of
  media, and you will lose them.

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Walter Benjamin

• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
  Reproduction
• One might generalize by saying the technique of
  reproduction detaches the reproduced object from
  the domain of tradition. By making many
  reproductions it substitutes a plurality of
  copies for a unique existence.

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Technologies

• Blogging
• http//riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
• RSS Really Simple Syndication
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3223484.stm?rssht
  tp//news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/fron
  t_page/rss.xml
• RSS aggregators eg Sharpreader
• Turns web content into email type experience
• Tells me about new items
• Remembers what Ive already read

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Techie Jargon

• These emerging technologies are informed by
  debates and ideas which have floated around the
  net for the last 4 or 5 years
• Accessibility and usability
• Separation of content and style
• Semantic Web
• Web services .NET / SOAP / XML

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Podcasting

• Unites RSS and mp3 files eg iPodder
• Ease of use straight to your mp3 player
• Democratisation of content production
• Amateur vs Professional

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Podcasting

• Reith Lectures http//www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2
  005/mp3/podcast.shtml
• BluggCast http//www.blugg.com/cast/
• My Silver Mount Zion http//robular.libsyn.com/
• Radio Clash http//www.mutantpop.net/radioclash/
• EchoRadio http//radio.echoditto.com/
• JungleCast
• Paticipatory Culture http//www.participatorycultu
  re.org/

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Participatory Culture

• Jargon
• Blog Torrent a flavour of Bit Torrent
• Bit Torrent a powerful, unregulatable way of
  sharing large files over the internet
• Participatory Culture uses a combo of Blog
  Torrent and RSS to allow people to share video
  easily.

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Postmodernism

• Logic of late capitalism
• Intellectual property in the age of digital
  reproduction
• OSS / Creative Commons
• http//creativecommons.org/
• http//creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/
• Personalisation