Not By Simulation Alone (Or: Mo’ VR, Mo’ Problems…Unless You Do It Right)
We’ve often seen that old familiar question: “Do media technologies make it better or worse?” It’s been examined by many, particularly in general terms such as at the societal level (such as Neil Postman’s famous lack of love for television and electronic entertainment) and at the individual level over a broad range of time (such [...]
Internet hitting mid-life crisis?
Some clear signs that you have reached middle age: Getting lucky means finding your car in the parking lot and happy hour is a nap. You little black book only contains names ending in M.D. You ears are hairier than your head and your back goes out more often than you do. On Sept.2 the [...]
All atwitter over Twitter
My colleague Sam Bradley is a Twitter evangelist, using it regularly to follow the news, connect with people in the advertising industry and to stay connected with friends. I am just a member of the flock, using it to follow some of the leading social media researchers, giving an a occasional update and frankly using [...]
David Perlmutter Interviewed by Care2
I was interviewed by Care2, a company that provides online outreach for nonprofits. David Perlmutter Talks Blogs, Interactors, and Jon Stewart David Perlmutter, author of the new book Blog Wars, is a professor at the University of Kansas School of Journalism & Mass Communications. Perlmutter, who was a recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon [...]
Citizen Journalism & the Democratic Convention
A few years ago, I wrote a book on the history of the visualization of warfare. I traced the evolution of pictures of warfare, from Stone Age cave paintings to the then most current imagery–video from the Bosnia war. At the close of the book, I speculated on whether we were at the end of [...]
Gatekeeping in an online world
As I noted in an earlier post, at this year’s AEJ I was fortunate to be a discussant for one of the top student papers at Com Tech, Shawn Neidorf’s Still Minding the Gate? The paper reanalyzes data from Pew Research People and the Press. She found that despite the fact that more and more [...]
Go Broadband, Save the Planet
A recent study by the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research indicates that the United States could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1 billion tons over the next decade by widespread adoption of broadband technology, which, if converted into energy saved, would constitute 11% of annual U.S. oil imports. How can widespread adoption of [...]