Convergence & Society: The Changing Media Landscape
We're underway for 2009 at the University of Nevada-Reno...
My presentation was "Digital Media, HD Radio and Local Market Broadcasting." The study investigates the interrelationship between so-called Wi-Fi Radio, satellite radio, and digital media players as they impact local market radio stations, including assessment of practicalities and limitations of HD Radio to local stations’ image, programming and digital channel monetization. The primary goal of this descriptive study is to assess the current and future viability of local market terrestrial radio within the context of this new competition. HD Radio is the In Band On Channel (IBOC) approach to local market digital radio broadcasting developed and marketed by IBiquity (www.iBiquity.com) and a technology being discussed as allowing local broadcasters to remain competitive as new technologies erode their audience. HD refers to ‘hybrid digital,’ although it is often called ‘high definition.’
One of the session on Thursday included Andrea Guzman presenting Virtual News: Newspapers in Second Life. As part of her master’s thesis at Northern Illinois University, she looked at newspapers that existed within Second Life. It seems while people are ‘living’ within Second Life, they read the newspaper. If ‘circulation’ figures are accurate, those in Second Life more than people in real life. Serena Carpenter of Arizona State presented “An examination of news quality and the extent to which U.S. online newspapers and online citizen journalism publications achieve it,” and noted that the way users judge quality and professionalism is based on design.
It's 3 pm local time in Reno, Nevada --and, wow, Nancy Beth Jackson at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi is doing a slide show presentation over Wimba, originating from the Middle East and it works pretty well! This is ‘digital media’ at its best. Next, Brad Freeman is on a video feed to do his presentation via Wimba – his presentation is coming from Singapore—again, another great use of the technology. Here's a tip: turn off auto-update on your computer before doing this--we just got an offer to update some software.
Here's Augie Grant of the University of South Carolina with just a bit of his presentation at this session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Ly5eJPAbU
Doug Fisher is also blogging about this conference... http://commonsensej.blogspot.com/
My presentation was "Digital Media, HD Radio and Local Market Broadcasting." The study investigates the interrelationship between so-called Wi-Fi Radio, satellite radio, and digital media players as they impact local market radio stations, including assessment of practicalities and limitations of HD Radio to local stations’ image, programming and digital channel monetization. The primary goal of this descriptive study is to assess the current and future viability of local market terrestrial radio within the context of this new competition. HD Radio is the In Band On Channel (IBOC) approach to local market digital radio broadcasting developed and marketed by IBiquity (www.iBiquity.com) and a technology being discussed as allowing local broadcasters to remain competitive as new technologies erode their audience. HD refers to ‘hybrid digital,’ although it is often called ‘high definition.’
One of the session on Thursday included Andrea Guzman presenting Virtual News: Newspapers in Second Life. As part of her master’s thesis at Northern Illinois University, she looked at newspapers that existed within Second Life. It seems while people are ‘living’ within Second Life, they read the newspaper. If ‘circulation’ figures are accurate, those in Second Life more than people in real life. Serena Carpenter of Arizona State presented “An examination of news quality and the extent to which U.S. online newspapers and online citizen journalism publications achieve it,” and noted that the way users judge quality and professionalism is based on design.
It's 3 pm local time in Reno, Nevada --and, wow, Nancy Beth Jackson at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi is doing a slide show presentation over Wimba, originating from the Middle East and it works pretty well! This is ‘digital media’ at its best. Next, Brad Freeman is on a video feed to do his presentation via Wimba – his presentation is coming from Singapore—again, another great use of the technology. Here's a tip: turn off auto-update on your computer before doing this--we just got an offer to update some software.
Here's Augie Grant of the University of South Carolina with just a bit of his presentation at this session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Ly5eJPAbU
Doug Fisher is also blogging about this conference... http://commonsensej.blogspot.com/
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