New MediaTheory

Sometimes a book comes along at a critical moment that helps us make sense of what is happening. Keith Curtis’s After the Software Wars is self published. It is available from  Lulu in paper for $13.95 or a downloadable PDF for free.  Notice the recent revision date on the cover. The moment you decouple the [...]

NYU media prof, Clay Shirky, has recently published Here Comes Everybody. It’s in the mail as they say, but there is this 40 minute video of Shirky talking about it at the Web 2.0 Expo earlier this year. (Hat tip, John Sumser)  The book puts forward many ideas about how the new media environment created [...]

Peter Magnusson is engaged in a project to try to pin down Quality on the Web. He points to the crux of the matter thus: “on the Internet, everybody can see if you’re an idiot, they just can’t do much about it.” He does not disclose exactly what he is trying to do about it [...]

A semaphore tower – courtesy Wikipedia Riepl’s Law, put forward by the German newspaperman Wolfgang Riepl in 1913, states that when new media emerge old ones don’t simply go away, they adapt and change. A contemporary German media CEO, Mattais Dorphner put it in contemporary terms this way here: …..new media do not replace existing [...]