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Summary: American youth are awash in media. They have television sets in their bedrooms, personal computers in their family rooms, and digital music players and cell phones in their backpacks. They spend more time with media than any single activity other than sleeping, with the average American eight- to eighteen-year-old reporting more than six hours of daily media use. The growing phenomenon of "media multitasking"-using several media concurrently-multiplies that figure to eight and a half hours of media exposure daily. Donald Roberts and Ulla Foehr examine how both media use and media exposure vary with demographic factors such as age, race and ethnicity, and household socioeconomic status, and with psychosocial variables such as academic performance and personal adjustment. They note that media exposure begins early, increases until children begin school, drops off briefly, then climbs again to peak at almost eight hours daily among eleven- and twelve-year-olds. Television and video exposure is particularly high among African American youth. Media exposure is negatively related to indicators of socioeconomic status, but that relationship may be diminishing. Media exposure is positively related to risk-taking behaviors and is negatively related to personal adjustment and school performance. Roberts and Foehr also review evidence pointing to the existence of a digital divide-variations in access to personal computers and allied technologies by socioeconomic status and by race and ethnicity. The authors also examine how the recent emergence of digital media such as personal computers, video game consoles, and portable music players, as well as the media multitasking phenomenon they facilitate, has increased young people's exposure to media messages while leaving media use time largely unchanged. Newer media, they point out, are not displacing older media but are being used in concert with them. The authors note which young people are more or less li

A paradox of sociology at the turn of the 21st century was that the discipline had largely abandoned the empirical study of journalistic organizations and news institutions at the moment when the media had gained visibility in political, economic, and cultural spheres; when other academic fields had embraced the study of media and society; and when leading sociological theorists had broken from the disciplinary canon to argue that the media are key actors in modern life. The author examines the point of journalistic production in one major news organization in the late 1990's and shows how reporters and editors managed constraints of time, space, and market pressure under regimes of convergence news making. The study considers the implications of these conditions for the particular forms of intellectual and cultural labor that journalists produce, drawing connections between the political economy of the journalistic field, the organizational structure of multimedia firms, new communications technologies, and the qualities of content created by media workers.

In the Internet environment, media must not only compete with one another but with a host of newcomers, including online companies with no traditional media ties and a variety of other entrepreneurs. This article reports the results of a content analysis of 422 Web sites associated with local newspapers, radio stations, and television stations in 25 of the largest metro markets in the United States. Results show that each medium has a relatively distinctive content emphasis, while each attempts to utilize its Web site to maximize institutional goals. Market size is found to be a relatively unimportant factor in shaping the content of these Web sites, but media type helps explain how these Web sites are differentiated. [J]

I saw an article in the DA about West Virginia University's News and Information Services, WVU Today launching a new website. They said they did this to keep up with the changing culture. The website is based around multimedia and social media, letting people interact with the story. The story talked about the new iWVU application available for iPhones, and a WVU mobile site for other smart phones. The website WVU Today allows users to share news stories in a variety of ways under the "share this". There is a media center section with a story archive, video archive, podcasts, and more.

What are the conditions of writing/ speech/word processing that open a critical stance on the question of global culture? This is one of the central questions that this article explores in relation to the new global media and culture given to us by technology.

WEB JUNKIE: PostSecret - art or therapy?,

Newspaper columnist Walter Winchell coined the term 'celebutante' in 1939, referring to socialite Brenda Frazier and other quasi-celebrities of the day. The creation of blogs has morphed the word, resulting in the proliferation of the use of the prefix 'celebu-.' New words created with 'celebu-' have been used on the Internet and in other media to describe a variety of persons with celebrity-like status, including Paris Hilton, thus illustrating the linguistic impact of blogs.

A movement to keep the "free flow" of media and resources online for journalists.

A home decor instruction - one of many that have influenced my projects and designs. The sharing of information in the form of instruction seems like an interesting facet of multi-media writing.

This is about new media and writing.

This article provides a harsh criticism to YouTube, saying that it encroaches upon the "legitimacy and perhaps even survival of forms of vernacular creativity." This source was found through Project Muse and published in the "Cinema Journal." In regards to my project, it will be useful to have an opposing perspective to the videos posted upon YouTube. This perspective will help me to determine my theories and opinions on user-generated remixes and extensions of popular media.

J. R. Carpenter is an award winning fiction writer, poet, and web artist based in Montreal. Entre Ville was commissioned by OBORO New Media Lab for the 50th anniversary of the Conseil des Arts de Montreal. This piece of work is very interesting. It is like The Cape because it can be viewed in any order, but there is a sense of where to begin and how to continue, but the reader can choose for himself. It also challenges the difference between reality and fiction, for example, a particular part discussing a dog walking a human and the sort of life that would be if you only got outside three times a day.

An Internet celebrity, cyberstar or online celebrity is someone who has become famous by means of the Internet. Such fame is based less upon raw numbers, as with traditional media. Instead, the wide reach of the Internet allows people to reach a narrow audience across the world and so become famous within a particular internet community. Many millions of people write online journals or weblogs. In many cases, they write anonymously or their focus is upon a specialist topic. But if the author has or develops a distinctive personality, their fame will derive from this as much as from the content of their blog.

This is an article about how the website TFLN is being turned into a TV series. This willhelp to support my ideas on profit and authorship in media.

The Microfame Game There's a new class of celebrity powered by the Internet. The stakes are smaller, but the rewards are within anyone's reach. These are the rules Read more: The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity -- New York Magazine http://nymag.com/news/media/47958/#ixzz0YQDD9oYB

An article on the famous website "Texts From Last Night" becoming a sitcom

Fell in love with this site. Users can create stories using images and text. Compositions are posted for anyone to view. Shockwave and quicktime are used here. Many different facets to this one site as shown in the links at the top of the page such as photos, stories, video, etc.

This article from Wikipedia simply defines authorship i a collaborative process. It gives a perspective from an academic point, as well as in an artistic sense. There is a lot of collaborative processes that go on in media or writing today.

what post secret is created from.

An article about Multimedia Storytelling, defining and giving examples.

This site discusses the negative impact os social networking sites and how the lack of security on the websites can become problematic.