DRP 2010

Blog about the changing nature of media in the digital age.

An examination of Mark Deuze's 2006 article examining the key characteristics of an emerging global digital culture. Week 5 reading

Web ads' reseesion is boucing back after last month.

In digital media, on the web, the news package is now a function of software - which is why Google is innovating precisely where publishers are not.

Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook predicts that people will share more information naturally in the future.

Fascinating presentation about the change in digital perception of the future generations.

An invitation to a New York event suggests Barnes & Noble may introduce its e-reading device on Oct. 20 with a feature other devices don't have.

children wirte faster wth pan than with keyboard, study from the US.

After finally reaching a formal agreement with authors and publishers, a host of other heavyweights including Microsoft and Yahoo came forward to challenge the settlement of Google books. Google co-founder Sergey Brin addressed criticisms of the settlement in a lengthy editorial.

Rupert Murdoch in China, arguing for paid content, and greater freedom for the press. 'The challenge of fusing past and present is real for media companies, and for China. Our aim must be to enhance the lives of our customers and citizens, and yet we find ourselves in the midst of an information revolution that is both exciting and unsettling. It is a digital revolution turning traditional business models upside down … traversing geographic, industrial, and media boundaries … and creating a new source of wealth, material and social, around the world.'

Google and IBM to donate computing wares to universities with the "hope of training a new breed of engineers and scientists to think in Internet scale".

Content is moved online, whilst advertisers have been slow to follow. Channel 4 decided to put the most channel's content online in full online, including advertising.The broadcaster will share the revenues earned with YouTube.

Steps to stay safe and private on Facebook

A new attempt to speed up book publishing.

Amazon.com Inc is introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, for over 100 countries, including China. Still, the problem is the price of reader.It is better to use lower price to attract more consumers.

the price of ebook is the point for ebook publishers to think about. Faceing the challenge of the free content shared internet, they have to think about the way to compete with free internt distrubution.

A star-studded attempt at launching an iPhone-only magazine stalls. Are people willing to pay to read on their iPhones?

"Content in and of itself doesn't matter. It's all about the package,"

Plenty of businesses and nonprofit organizations have signed up for Twitter and Facebook, but are they using these social media outlets to their fullest potential?