Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game

Many people in the media industry have been blaming the emergence of social media for a sudden slowdown of traditional media business.  There is however another possible explanation. The problem may be that the culture in which the media exist is changing, not simply the business model. This problem may not be a case of [...]

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A Challenger Appears

Though many people support the integration of social media operations into traditional media outlets, and the growth of social media, some do not. Robert G. Picard, from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, believes that the integration of social media techniques into traditional media corporations can be a [...]

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NG Wont Be Left Behind

National Geographic is among the oldest currently running print publications in the world. The 121-year old publisher is among the most active and diverse media companies in the world.  According to the article “121-year-old publisher proves it can learn plenty of new tricks”: Online, National Geographic boasts 14.8 million unique visitors per month. Its TV [...]

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Evolution

Web 2.0 provides an interesting opportunity for smaller, community newspapers. These newspapers, with their shoestring budgets and tiny staffs are presented with a difficult choice: do they set aside a portion of their budget in order to have a more active Web presence using blogs, or keep that capital and re-invest it in their typical [...]

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Social Media Around the World

Sometimes when looking at the effect of social media, we tend to have a very Western-centric view of things. Because it is what we are most familiar with, we examine what it does to our own frame of reference. But social media, like the Internet, is a worldwide phenomenon.  If we investigate only the effects [...]

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The Next Step

This TED talk, from Clay Shirky, provides some interesting points on social media. He talks about the technological evolution of media, and the effects it has had. The Internet, through its unique construction, allows for the Internet to overtake certain other media and integrate them into itself, as through streaming TV shows, VOIP telephone, and [...]

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Two Sides of the Coin

It is hard to say that there are no differences between the way that traditional media and social media report the news. The two forms of media operate under completely different ground rules. If we compare online newspaper articles to blogs, since that is the closest to the traditional/social split, we still see marked differences. [...]

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Losing Grip?

It is a commonly accepted fact that as the social media sphere grows, it must take some power away from the traditional news media. This phenomenon has occurred with any large-scale shift in the nature of media in our history. The printing press, radio, television and Internet all had significant effects on the forms of [...]

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The Finale: Social Media Revolution

As my final post, I thought I would draw attention to a useful blog that takes in-depth looks at the social media sphere and makes connections between social media and news, social media and business, social media and politics… you get the idea. Eric Qualman’s Socialnomics social media blog expresses many of the sentiments that [...]

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Social Media Killed the Television Star?

Although they are trying constantly to interconnect themselves with social networking, some believe that for broadcasters, it may be too little too late. Brad Dick, editorial director for Broadcast Engineering magazine, believes that the news may have a hard time catching up. Dick lists a bunch of important statistics first on a bunch of popular [...]

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