Comments on: Web, Print, & the Singularity of Media

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By: ThickCulture » The McLuhan Conic:: Understanding Social Media

ThickCulture » The McLuhan Conic:: Understanding Social Media — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:21:14 +0000

[...] happened? Is the singularity of media, where all media is converging, making it all lukewarm? The continuum is shrinking to a singular [...]

By: ThickCulture » The Culture of Optics & The Politics of Facebook

ThickCulture » The Culture of Optics & The Politics of Facebook — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:18:28 +0000

[...] Should we get over it? Are we degenerating into a culture of optics? We can say that issues of values and character matter, but are we just setting up a situation where only the squeaky clean can withstand the scrutiny in media singularity. [...]

By: ThickCulture » p/owning the front page:: the daily bruin &

ThickCulture » p/owning the front page:: the daily bruin & — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:04:41 +0000

[...] story on how the award winning Daily Bruin sold a “wrapper ad” made me think about the singularity of media and the future of print. The PBS Frontline of The Persuaders shows how JetBlue used a similar wrapper ad in Boston to [...]

By: Mike Young

Mike Young — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:34:26 +0000

When it comes down to it how does the information change? Reading a story in print or online doesn’t make the story any less important or give it a different meaning. We are now in the a digital society and print is having a hard time keeping up with that. Weather the New York times delivers the paper to my front door or to my email account, the stories are the same and the writing is the same, so why not have a paper you can access anywhere? I guess it just comes down to preference in what you would rather read, but the overwhelming preference has become digital causing papers across the country to go under because there demand is no longer needed.

The future of print is in magazines. Magazines already function like a blog; short, to te point, and with lots of pictures. They allow for physical print in such areas where you cannot have computers for everyone, such as waiting rooms. Other then magazines I do not see a big future for print, the digital revolution is taking over!

By: Evan Clark

Evan Clark — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:56:58 +0000

I do believe print is dieing in America. There might be some intrinsic value in reading a news paper, but a virtual newspaper is capable of telling you the exact same information. times are changing and so will the brain. I see the virtual text just as the next step in our movement towards a digital society. Technology has advanced to levels that change how information in learned. Maybe someday it will look like this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_uzEj71AU4

I believe the ability to digitally take and create the media in which we are presented makes in more valuable and gives the individual more power. This is dangerous in some cases but can at the same time greatly benefits a society that seeks individualism.

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:40:58 +0000

If given the choice, I would much rather read a newspaper the old fashioned way than get my news on a computer screen or dictated to me through the television. This most likely has to do with the fact that I have no television and newspapers are freely distributed around CLU. I agree with Professor Kambara when he said, “I personally feel a certain fondness for actual printed work. It may have more to do with the specific æsthetics of the medium than anything and possibly the tactile experience.” However, it is true that I do not read every article word for word. Even with a paper in front of me I skim articles and sometimes only read headlines. Is that due to the state of media and our ever-shrinking attention spans? Probably. Is it a bad thing? Not in my opinion. The future of print might be completely printless in the future, but I don’t think that will happen in my lifetime. I grew up reading books (yes whole books, gasp) and taking literature classes that required substantial struggle with texts. However, I was recently baby-sitting and it did not seem to me that the habits of newer generations follow this exact suit. They have more access to a variety of media and I remember one saying they could no longer get one of their favorite girl magazines anywhere but online. In addition, one girl in my econ class did not buy her textbook but rather bought a downloadable version. This saved her lots of money, but I would feel that I am not getting as much out of a book without holding it and writing in the margins. However, those days may very well be over.

By: Hannah Schenck

Hannah Schenck — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:22:22 +0000

Sadly the era of sitting down on a Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and the newspaper is coming to a sure and definite close. Society sees this form of Americana an inconvenience, and is replacing it with Saturday mornings of web surfing and rapid-fire blogging. Attention spans have decreased to the point where it becomes more efficient to scan 30 blogs and online articles in 20 minutes than an hour of reading the Times and Wall Street Journal front to back. How has efficiency overruled meticulousness? Because I can cover the important headlines on Yahoo while checking my e-mail and checking the box scores I have somehow accomplished something greater? The ability to spread ideas at a quicker rate means nothing if those ideas are based on “spark notes” research.

By: Jasoene Bentil

Jasoene Bentil — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:45:15 +0000

I think print media is dead it was unable to realize the affect of the web before it was too late. Print media censors itself more due to political repercussions if they say the wrong thing about the wrong politician or powerful person. Newspapers are dying but television can be saved due to the fact that they are trying to integrate the web into more aspects of that industry they realize people are spending more time online then watching television so people now have the options to watch their favorite shows online. Print media is sinking who knows if they can save themselves from falling, to do so they are going to have to become more internet friendly.

By: Yeraldy

Yeraldy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:35:35 +0000

I find myself thinking about this idea recently. I was passing a Barnes and Noble and realized that their books are incredibly over-priced and I thought about the long tail and how everything is now available for a lower price online. Places like Amazon and half.com sell used books for low prices and they don’t have to lease a building to fit thousands of books. Also, newspaper articles are available for free online. This makes me question how is it that people are still paying for newspapers when they are free online? I find it more efficient to google an article rather than go out and buy the paper and flip the pages searching for an article.
I see that printing may become something of the past soon because both my “Internet & Politics” and Economics courses require online text. Perhaps in the future, on the contrary as to how Jennifer feels about text on paper and online, students will find it normal to read from a computer screen rather than a textbook.