“Listicle” comes from “list + article” A listicle is a short article written in the form of a list. You have most likely seen them with titles like “10 Amazing Facts About Spider-Man” or “7 Of The Oldest Pieces Of… Read More ›
Future of journalism
The Quantum Theory of Mass Media (II). Content: a shift from chunks to a flow
The internet has shifted the news from a portioned to a streamed mode of consumption. A news feed in social media is an example of such an information stream. The news teasers in social media represent, in essence, the wave-particle… Read More ›
The Quantum Theory of Mass Media (I). What is the unit of media consumption?
Now, what is a quantum of mass media content? The length of any piece of content gets shorter and shorter as the formats for delivering the content get cropped to satisfy the consumers’ ever-shrinking attention spans. But how small can… Read More ›
Facebook wants to be a World Wide Paperboy
Will a packaged internet platform defeat the open web? This could either save or bring down the global media industry. The New York Times reports that Facebook has been quietly negotiating a deal with the world’s leading media outlets to… Read More ›
The really immortal qualities of good old journalism
“Does a journalism education still matter?” asked Professor Joe Banks recently on J-Source[1]. He clarified, “The question lingers because of the array of digital tools at the disposal of the general public”. Among the other “yes-answers”, he argued that editors… Read More ›
Content marketing: How companies are turning into media. Case studies
Brands are engaged in a media arms race. Creating relevant and valuable content is no longer an option, but a necessity. Traditional marketing boils down to managing brand information distribution, while content marketing strives to create conditions in which information… Read More ›
Review, Precis and Comments Re Andrey Miroshnichenko’s book Human as Media: The Emancipation of Authorship. By Robert K. Logan
Andrey Miroshnichenko, a media futurist and journalist, trained as a philologist, has written a very important book. I would go even further and say that a new star is born that students of media ecology, communications and digital media need… Read More ›
Myth about rubbish content on the Internet. How filters create a customized “The Daily Me” for everyone.
Sure, in terms of how information appears on the Internet, it could be compared with a rubbish dump. Everything gets in. But far from everything circulates and finds an end-user. In reality, nobody uses rubbish. There are no restrictions on… Read More ›
The Viral Editor as a distributed being of the Internet. The Manifesto of the Viral Editor
The first “Artificial Intelligence” has emerged in the technological world, made up of real people: the Viral Editor of the Internet. It is currently building a new social reality, creating an alternative form of guerrilla journalism and begetting a new… Read More ›
The Emancipation of Authorship. This picture explains everything
Free content, the crisis of media, guerilla journalism, death of newspapers, content marketing, Arab Spring, social media boom, the Viral Editor, civic journalism, the end of the Gutenberg era, the shortening of the length of reading, the debates on the… Read More ›
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