True story: a friend told me how she invested a large amount of money in order to advertise her product on a fairly central website. The campaign bombed and my friend queried the veracity of the site owner’s claim that his site is a popular place of convergence: “you cannot tell me that your site is popular and charge for advertising, when in fact all that you have is a large number of visitors. This is disingenuous!” she fumed. Read the rest of this entry »
Making your own bed: are there limits to professional responsibility?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: 1984, Animal Farm, charge my per exposure, charge per click-through, charge per per conversion, choice-criteria, Ease of use, el-bizarro, Fair price, George Orwell, get a foot in the door, Harvard Business School, Healing power, High quality, James Hattefield, Kindle, Modularity, Narakesari Narayandas, New York’s Monroe College, Pittsburgh Pirates, The Lawyer’s Paradox, Trina Thompson
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Learning online vs. face-to-face instruction
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in NarrativesTags: a-synchronicity, asynchronicity, asynchronous, available on demand, brick-and-mortar universities, collaborative environment, computer-mediated collaborative learning, constructionism, constructionist, disconnectedness, dropout, elaine allen, higher education enrollments, higher education enrolments, isolation, jeff seaman, karen frankola, martin dougiamas, moodle, non-traditional students, one-to-many, one-to-one, online enrollments, online enrolments, online instruction, sloan-c, virtual institutions of learning online
Over the years we have witnessed an ever-growing migration of students from brick-and-mortar universities, schools and colleges, to virtual institutions of learning online. In fact, entrepreneurship scholars Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman noted (PDF) that “online enrollments have been growing substantially faster than overall higher education enrollments” and that “[o]nline enrollments have continued to grow at rates far in excess of the total higher education student population, albeit at slower rates than for previous years.” Increased students access and degree completion, as well as “[t]he appeal of online instruction to non-traditional students” are cited as reasons for universities to offer online instruction. Read the rest of this entry »
The Rise of the Digital Natives
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: 000 Hour Rule, 10, born digital, culture of sharing, digital children, digital immigrant accent, Digital Immigrants, Digital Landscape, Digital Natives, e-Learning, Eric Hoofer, Gird Hotchkiss, Ian Jukes, information processing habits, Jeremiah Owing, Jinx Mile, John Palfrey, Malcolm Glad well, Marc Prensky, multi-tasking, multiple identities, online activism, Outliers, parallel processing, peer collaboration, pruning, random access, speaking digital as second language, Times Online, upwards pressure, Urs Gasser
Who are the digital children of 2009? e-Learning specialist Marc Prensky coined the term Digital Natives and used it in two major articles he published in 2001 (Part I , Part II, PDF.) Digital Natives, he says, “are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics before their text rather than the opposite. They prefer random access (like hypertext). They function best when networked. They thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards. They prefer games to “serious” work.” ” Read the rest of this entry »
To Whom the Turnstile Spins?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Apple iTune, Aspen Institute, Coldplay, consumption-biased content, content Providers, Darren Libonati, digital coins, digital wallet, electronic turnstile, further spending, hyperactive traffic makers, impulse purchases, infobites, Las Vegas Events, Max Bialystock, micropayment, mobile accessibility, new e-business, News Corporation, occasional content seekers, online bit-by-bit communication, opinionator blog, premium publications, Rupert Murdoch, Sponsored turnstiles, The Business Dictionary Online, The Children of Darfur, The New Your Times, Time, turnstile spin, turnstile spinners, Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium, virtual money, Wall Street Journals, Walter Isaacson, WSJ
As you may have seen for yourselves, media’s ‘new e-business’ aspirations have caused quite a stir. I have ToingToing!ed about it here and The Financial Times Online offers a decent detailed assessment of the situation, both pieces are offered for free, I hasten to add. Advertising does not bring in the money anymore (did anyone tell the agencies, BTW?) and so, content providers, such as Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, are desperately looking for new ways to generate revenue. In an earlier piece I ToingToing!ed about Murdoch’s conundrum: he is trying to recoup a USD 209M loss in quarterly profits incurred by his newspaper division. In what seems like an overreaction, Murdoch decreed that usage charges will be introduced to premium publications (such as the Wall Street Journals, aka WSJ) and that “users would pay “handsomely” for WSJ content.” This is where the legendary producer Max Bialystock would quip “You keep saying that, but you don’t say how…” Increasingly, many content providers who push so-called ‘new media business models’ name micropayment as their ‘how’. Read the rest of this entry »
The Insane and the Genius
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Albert Einstein, archived content, Bruce Feirstein, Chris Anderson, Content seekers, Dow Jones, Feinstien’s maxim, Fortune Magazine, Fox Business Network, freeconomics, information web, Insanity, insanity vs. genius, James Bond, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, searchable content, the 25 most powerful people in business, the free Web, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Wired magazine, WSJ content
A quote attributed to Albert Einstein argues that ‘insanity means doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’. Scriptwriter Bruce Feirstein, who wrote some of the James Bond movie scripts, asserted further that the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Armed with such heavyweights-uttered quotes, we can reflect on things billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corp. said about the future of online news. Read the rest of this entry »
Life at Fahrenheit 451
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: ALA, ALAhead to 2010, Amnesty International, And Tango Makes Three, book burning, Boris Pasternak, civil liberties, David Lean, Doctor Zhivago, dystopia, dystopian society, Equitable Access to Information, Fahrenheit 451, François Truffaut, freedom of expression, George Orwell, Guy Montag, Index on Censorship, intellectual bigotry, Intellectual Freedom, Ireland’s blasphemy law, irrepressible.info, Judy Blume, Julie Christie, National Coalition Against Censorship, NCAC, Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, Ray Bradbury, recorded knowledge, The American Library Association, Web Censorship all around the World, World Press Freedom Day
As a teenager, I literally stumbled upon François Truffaut‘s powerful interpretation of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 book Fahrenheit 451. I went to see the movie simply because it featured Julie Christie, the woman who invaded my pubescent dreams as a blonde Russian siren named Lara in David Lean‘s adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s epic Doctor Zhivago. On my way home from the movie theatre I stopped at a second hand bookstore and bought a copy of Fahrenheit 451: Read the rest of this entry »
Pulitzer’s Digerate Media Relevance
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Breaking News Photography, Breaking News Reporting, Commentary, Criticism, Editorial Cartooning, Editorial Writing, Explanatory Reporting, Gone with the Wind, Harper Lee, International Reporting, James Michener, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Pulitzer, Local Reporting, Margaret Mitchell, National Reporting, Nieman Journalism Lab, Oscar Hammerstein II, Paul Giblin, public-spirited press, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzers-for-Journalism, Richard Rodgers, Roy Harris, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the New York World, The Pulitzer Prizes, To Kill a Mockingbird, Toni Morrison, yellow journalism
American media supremo Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) dedicated his life to the pursuit of excellence in writing and publishing. He was an uncompromising and committed journalist who sought to redefine journalism and turn it into a discipline, complete with its public goals, professional ambitions, value systems ethical considerations and criticism of itself, as well as of other. He bought and developed the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch- two well known newspapers of his time. Pulitzer is credited with coining the term “Yellow Journalism.” Read the rest of this entry »