This is hardly an extensive guide, actually it isn´t going to tell you much at all. Still I do like the attitude:
”This guide is aimed at anyone who may be launching a TV channel, but is not an expert in TV technology or a TV professional.”
Participationtv.com is probably a better place to begin, giving a view on different aspects of “television”.
I´ve been working quite a lot lately with an article in norwegian: Digitale læringsomgivelsers kommunikasjonsmønstre (Communication- patterns in Digital Learning Environments) - see my norwegian blog for an introduction. I´ve used a model which I do believe is relevant in order to analyse different kinds of media, both in a networked environment, and in traditional media.
| Information produced by center | Information produced by individual users | Information produced by users as a collective | |
| Distribution controlled by center | Transmission | Registering | Commenting |
| Distribution controlled by individual users | Consultation | Dialog | Collaboration |
| Distribution controlled by users as a collective | Syndication | Sharing | Emergence |
Bordewijk and Kaam came up with their model before the WWW, and the do only take into account “center” and “users”. The extention is the five comunication patterns which come as a result of colletive aspects of communication. We need this in order to describe what happans when a large number of individuals begin to use applications like blogs and wikis.
My understanding of “distribution” in this model goes far beyond controlling the infrastructure used for distribution. One also has to consider the users increased ability to decide when, and how the information is consumed, or re-used. One again I find the concept of collective editing to be essential in order to understand networked media.
What I find particularly interesting is how this typology, among other aspects, makes it easier to discuss the interplay between technical solutions and culture. When discussing this in relation to learning enviroments it became evident to me that the collective aspects of a technology is relying heavily on culture, much more than on the technical solutions used for mediation. In retrospect this seems rather obvious, since one hardly can speak of a colletive unless there is a significant influence from a cultural environment. Nevertheless, using this typology I believe it becomes easier to describe how different media rely on diverse mixtures of technical solutions and culture, and maybe most important, I find it easier to explain in detail how these two aspects of technology interfere.
More to come on this one…
Rupert Murdoch describes himself as a “digital immigrant", but still he seems to take the web seriously, wanting to turn ”newspapers into “destinations” that rivalled the success of the internet portals, “the Yahoos, Googles, and MSNs”.
Internet media is still the little brother, but its growth even concerns Murdoch:
”The challenge for us… is to create an internet presence that is compelling enough for users to make us their home page. Just as people traditionally started their day with coffee and the newspaper, in the future, our hope should be that for those who start their day online, it will be with coffee and our website.”
Google launches the announced uploading- and search-service for video: ”Whether you produce hundreds of titles a year or just a few, you can give your videos the recognition and visibility they deserve by promoting them on Google - for free. Signing up for the Google Video Upload Program will connect your work with users who are most likely to want to view them.”
I guess they must have worked on this service for some time, but the timing is interesting. This happens just a few weeks after the launch of ourmedia.org. It doesn´t seem like Google does anything special about licencing though, like making it possible to publish with a CC-license, like Ourmedia do.
This sounds ambitious, even coming from Google: ”We encourage all content owners to upload their content through our online Video Upload Program, but if you’re from a TV station, production facility or anyone else with hundreds of hours of video to promote, please enter your content information here.”
Microsoft enable editing of Encarta encyclopedia articles, but ”Due to the high volume of feedback we receive, it may take several weeks for your suggested changes to go through this process. Lengthy submissions may take even longer. Unfortunately, at this time we are unable to notify you when your suggestions are accepted.” (via Many2Many)
Had to come up with any reason why one should pur effort into editing Encarta instead of Wikipedia.
Neil Kandalgaonkar has written a program that blends 50 photos tagged the same in Flickr. 50 photos tagged with “shadow” and “self” give a result like this. (via Jill)
Black Metal boosts language interest: ”A deep enthusiasm for the Norwegian languages is thriving at La Sapienza University in Rome. The modern and historical languages are seen as an exotic and romantic subject thanks to student passion for Norwegian Black Metal bands.
Is blogging a truly democratic tool for change or, as some have suggested, a vehicle for mob rule? BBC´s David Reid finds that blogs are changing some of the way things used to work in journalism. As Torill notes there are reasons to believe that the same forces will change the structures of the organisations which journalists work within, as well.
VlogMaker is an online service for hosting and publishing videoblogs. Still in testing mode the service promise an inexpensive, and easy-to-use method to manage and share video postings over the Internet.
