studying the media ecosystem
The new media literates? An article by Reuters reporter Gavin Haycock explores how “unprecedented change in media and technology (have) given teenagers and kids an advantage in forecasting what products will appeal to consumers.” Haycock, who apparently covers advertising for the news agency, writes:
Younger people spend more time online than watching television, have access [...]
On June 28, 1992, the earth quaked in the Mojave Desert town of Landers, and I wrote my first staff story for a major metropolitan daily. It was a Sunday night. I was then 37 and for some perverse reason had decided to change my life around to become a newspaper reporter.
I was supposed [...]
Following on the media regulation theme that I noted in prior postings (here and here), the American Medical Association issued a statement Thursday calling for:
“more research on the long-term beneficial and detrimental effects of video game and Internet use, as well as a review of the current video game ratings system.”
The AMA [...]
I noticed this string of reports when I scanned Paid Content this morning:
“ComScore, the Internet traffic measurement firm, raised $82.5 million in its IPO priced above a forecast range . . . “(more);
“CampusU, an online merchandising, marketing and media company focused on the college students, has filed for a $28.8 million IPO on Nasdaq” [...]
Poynter Institute commentator Fons Tuinstra, who is based in Shanghai, spotted a People’s Daily editorial that declared it is an issue “worth studying” how “the Internet has deeply changed the political environment in China . . . (forcing) . . . Chinese leaders to adapt.”
The editorial in People’s Daily, a semi-official organ of the Chinese [...]
Media overload — and the public policy response — is a favorite topic.
I recently mentioned the Kaiser Family Foundation report titled Children, Parents, Media that looks at media exposure as a public health issue. It found that “two-thirds of parents would support more stringent federal regulation of television content.”
Apropos of that, Congressman Ed [...]
In a recent posting I referenced a Macworld article that extolled the virtues of the Apple TV:
“New video content, whether streamed or stored, (must be) as easy to access as the video content on cable, DVDs, and DVRs. YouTube videos are fun to watch if you’re killing time at work. But when I go home [...]
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