One of the latest trends in new media weds simplicity and aesthetics together: mobile-friendly one-page websites. But what can you do with only one page? More than…
Category: New Media
Explorations of how media other than writing, especially new evolving media, overlap with and inform writing itself.
I’ll be honest – I used to be a hardcore Twitter snob. I used to be avowedly anti-Twitter, turning my nose to those who used the social…
Recently on WNYC’s On the Media, hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield posed an interesting question: “In this Golden Age of content, who’s going to pay for…
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Stealing from Social Media: Fair Game?
Last night, in my “Text and Image” class, the topic of ethics came up. And although it may not have exactly been the direction my professor wished…
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How to get storified
Take a minute to browse this Storify piece from The Today Show. How many types of social media can you point out? http://storify.com/todayshow/today-s-view-from-atop-one-world-trade-center Twitter, Vine, Instagram–with Storify,…
Over the past few years, the debate over whether social media helps or hurts our culture has changed. Most people aren’t so worried about connectivity anymore; now,…
Recently in one of my classes, a fellow student made the remark that video games are pointless and that they should all be eradicated in favor of…
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Content and Its Discontents
Doesn’t it seem a little strange that About.com has an entire subdomain dedicated to doing your laundry, including their own designated laundry correspondent? This kind of thing is…
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Time to get used to digital media
You might have heard about the media giant Time Warner’s recent break-up with TIME Inc., publisher of the scarlet-lettered staple of grocery store aisles across America. It’s…
I’m just going to throw it out there: many organizations that use social media have no real idea what they’re doing with it, or why they’re using…