New MediaTheory

John Plunkett of the UK Guardian  writes here about a subject near and dear to the hearts of newspapers these days. The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has predicted that “almost all” news organisations will be charging for online content within a year. Its a pretty savvy article recognizing that financial papers like the Financial [...]

  The roos were indifferent as usual, even to Gude’s Law. As I contemplate Obama’s inauguration what comes up for me in terms of Newmediatheory is the theme I have been discussing in recent posts. How new technological environments make us collectively and individually numb as we struggle to come to terms with a new [...]

In my last post I quoted McLuhan’s description of how, after a period of numbness, the emergence of a new media leads to the eventual creation of new forms. For example, the printing press led to new forms such as the novel or the newspaper. The quote is worth repeating because catches the significance of [...]

I have noticed recently that the debate among journalists has sharpened and begun to more directly engage the changes caused by the impact of the Internet on their profession. The continued decline in advertising revenue and circulation at newspapers and consequent job losses appears to me to be is the most dramatic factor driving the [...]