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Greta

FIRST THINGS: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life - 0 views

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shared by Greta on 28 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Greta on 28 Mar 09
     
    Neil Postman essay on the place of technology and information commodification in cultural evolution and the search for truth.
Mike Wesch

Media Revolution: Podcasting (Part 2); 2/06 - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 31 May 08 - Cached
  • By the end of 2004, bloggers were using the ability to add video as an enclosure to an RSS feed, allowing viewers to subscribe to videos and have them delivered automatically to their computers. This solved the problem of click and wait, where you had to wait for a video to start playing when you clicked on it from a web page.
  • podcasting (both video and audio) is a bottom-up movement and squarely the domain of individuals who are being guided by human creativity and expression, rather than corporate agendas and economic exigencies.
  • With the cost of video cameras in the hundreds, sophisticated computers with video editing software available for just over a grand, and high speed always-on internet connections costing less than the average cable television subscription, the means of both production and distribution are now in the hands of practically anyone with something to say
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  • genuine conversation with their audience,
  • Marhshall McLuhan argued that in each socio-cultural era the medium in which information is created and transmitted determines the essential characteristics of that culture. He also predicted the evolution of an interconnected "global village".  The shift from a centralized media industry modeled on industrial revolution structures to a decentralized chaotic information-age soup is having a profound effect on the messages we exchange and shaping the characteristics of our culture. The global village comes to a crescendo with podcasting, and you can participate in the revolution with tools that are easily within reach: your imagination, the computer you're using to read this web page, and a video camera. We're not going to predicting what's next, as that's going to depend on what you, yes you, plan to do with new media. If the flutter of one butterfly wing, can trigger a chain reaction of events resulting in a storm half-way across the planet, imagine the effect millions, or billions, of individually produced videos will have on the characteristic of the global village and the media landscape.
  • You don't even need a video camera to start videoblogging, the mashup culture is in full force
  • most new computers come with free video editing software
  • A large group of vloggers, over 2,000 at last count, actively participate in the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group from all over the world.
Bill Genereux

VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 14 Sep 10 - Cached
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    "We are all connected, and it's not just through the Internet and Facebook"
Greta

YouTube - Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes" - 0 views

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shared by Greta on 27 Jan 09 - Cached
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    Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive.\n
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