New Media Technology
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- lukus_W0
Maybe you could just pick a single media industry and talk about how it is being forced to change. I'm not sure if this is part of your course, but it's probably more useful and interesting to talk about how technology affects people and society, rather than the technology itself.
The newspaper industry is a good example. Newpapers are currently fucked. No one's buying them as much as they used to, and their websites are being viewed for free and aggregated by companies like Google.
Rupert Murdoch is intent on running the biggest experiment the industry has ever encountered, by creating a 'paywall' - charging users to access his paper's content. How likely is it, that this will work? If it does work, what will this mean for the 'free web'?
Blogs have become a viable source for real news. How does this affect journalism? Anyone can become a blogger ... how will this affect the way that the general public views news? Are people less or more likely to believe everything they read?
Can technology help save the industry? Will the iPad help the industry fight back? etc..