No one can argue that some of the most socially and even politically transformative ideas to come out of the technology boom of the last ten years were a) social media and b) the attendant proliferation of user generated content.
There was MySpace, then YouTube, then Facebook, Twitter followed by every other niched and slightly varied [...]
I hate rules. I’ve never been able to follow them. And I find the tyranny of web lists obnoxious. BUT, somehow one cannot deny that in an era of such chaos as we are experiencing in the media arts especially, this kind of list may…possibly… have some value. There, I said it! This is my [...]
This weekend is the fourth Futures of Entertainment Conference, hosted by MIT’s Convergence Culture Consortium. I’m looking forward to attending and will post during and after. (Follow my twitter feed @filmfuturist) for updates during the conference.
When I found this nicely done video of Henry Jenkins (of whom I am a great fan) talking about [...]
Extracted from the NewTeeVee Live archive of yesterday’s great 1 day conference, this video is long video but very worth worth watching if you’re curious what the folks in the new media video world think is coming next. Answers to the question: ”What’s The Next Big Thing” had experts weighing in on technologies, creative shifts, funding, [...]
