Reading Reflection #7

Christensen’s vision of a wireless world of data is spot on in my opinion. The convergence of voice, data and video in one place, whether it be at the home computer or the smart-phone, will leave telco and cable providers rushing at each other in full battle mode. Both services will have to [...]

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Reading Reflection #6 Questions

Thank you Fluffy for your enlightening comment.
This brings me to my questions based on reading #6:
1. With politics mobilizing on the web and with an exponential increase in anonymous participants, will meaningful discussion get buried under useless or inflammatory commenting?
2. With freeping of Internet polls and the lessening of the online poll’s relevancy due to [...]

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Reading Reflection #6

The theory of The Tragedy of the Commons states that a commons such as the air or the sea would be hard to protect because each person’s negative impact would not directly affect that person, while the gain from polluting each, such as getting rid of garbage or emissions, would directly benefit that person. In [...]

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Group 3 Extra Reading – Community and Communication in the Third Age: The Impact of Internet and Cell Phone Use on Attachment to Place in Later Life in England

In Gilleard, Hyde and Higgs paper, they discuss how English people over 50 tend to use the Internet as a substitute for geographically based community. Because of limited mobility, older people tend to connect more closely to thier geographical location over time. With the Internet being inexpensive and accessible to those that are [...]

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Reading Reflection #5

In my later years, I will one day sit down with my grandchildren and tell them that I was part of an online community based entirely on text and linux commands. They will look at me in shock, wondering how I could communicate without neural-linked sensory rooms. Or something like that. But I will say, [...]

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Reading Reflection #4

Reading Gilmore’s article made me think one thought: “Whoa! This guy is really behind the times!”
I think it’s interesting that Gillmor thinks the newspaper will be the place people go to first to interact with the news. Internet media agencies that have no earthly ties (as in having to actually print something) have a huge [...]

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Reading Reflection #3

Two main themes are expressed in Tom Standage’s book The Victorian Internet. The first theme is that there is a slow process of adoption for new communication technology. A certain threshold of public acceptance, lowered manufacturing costs and deregulation by the government are all needed before that technology can thrive. The second theme is that [...]

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Reading Reflection #2

Christensen’s and Rheinghold’s articles both attempt to describe the implications of new technology on the media ecology.
Christensen’s work focuses a bit too much on the business-side aspect of divining customer trends. Some trends are invented first by the consumer and then become monetized later by businesses; a good example of this is the Napster [...]

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Reading Reflection #1

This weeks readings all touch upon the rapidly increasing technology cycle within digital media. From the battle between who will ‘own’ the railway communication system by the early pioneers of the telegraph pointed out by Winston and his writings about the telegraph, to who will own the telephony technology of the 20th century with traditional [...]

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