What makes new media so exciting is the fact that it keeps changing. However after reading the articles concerning blogs and Web 2.0 it sounds like new media isn't so new. It can almost be viewed like the way television news evolved. First without a promoter or graphics, then those came along which was high technology, then live remotes became possible, and so on. So maybe new media is super cool and different - but in a way it may just be that way because it's something new. A good break from the norm.
Here's an interesting YouTube video concerning the changes to media over time.
After reading about podcasting I couldn't help but think do people really listen to those. I remember several years ago our station offered a podcast of our news broadcast. I always thought who wants to listen to someone say, “Check out this great video” when they are listening and aren't getting a description of what someone would be seeing. Needless to say the podcast went away from our station and I thought it did for others as well. I'm still not sure that sounds interesting, except maybe to the person making it.
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"I'm still not sure that sounds interesting, except maybe to the person making it."
ReplyDeleteI agree. Now lots of news content is created not because the audience wants it, but because the company wants to create it.
And so is lots of academic research...