Media And The Online Age

2010-04-30T03:26:00.000-07:00

Participatory cultures - Wikinomics and We-Think
Pro's:
More input to develop idea
Cost effective
Nothing to lose
Access to facilities
Split up workload
Do deadline
Control over work
Knowledge is power
Doesn't have a deadline
Youtube, wikipedia etc. is an ongoing process, doesn't have to finish

Con's:
Participation gap
Transparency problem
Ethnics challenge
Never make a profession out of it
Destroying establishes bsuiness model
Participants are not always close, so communication can be hard

Internet combines with others meaning explosive creativity

You are what you share!! - WE THINK
- Charles Leadbeater

Structures
Heirachy

Don Tabscott author of Grown up digital

Contributary culture - key phrase

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES - Theories

2010-03-12T03:56:00.000-08:00

TZVETAN TODOROV
The classical narrative:

Equilibrium: the normal state at the beginning of the text. Any opposing forces are in balance

Dis-equilibrium - An action or conflict introduced into the narrative

New-equilibrium - the conflict is resolved and the narrative strands are tied together

ROLAND BARTHES

Five Codes:
The action or Proairetic (questions and actions)

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

meaninh in narratives is based upon binary oppositions (conflict) he was less interested in the arrangement of the narrative and more in the seeper meaning of themes.

VLADIMIR PROPP

the Morphology of the Folk Tale was first publiashed in1928. Propp examined hundreds of folk tales and concluded that a fomula was commonplace including:

8 Character Roles:

The Villain
The Hero
The Donor
The Helper
The Princess
Her Father
The Dispacher who sends the hero on his way
The False hero

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES - Narrative

2010-03-12T03:18:00.000-08:00

Story - Intro, middle, end and a PLOT

Eminem Video:

Story:
- Ego
- Conflict
- Good VS Evil
- Opposing Views
- Choice
- Decision

3 seperate plots - split second decision - "Life's crossroads" Point of No Return (P.O.N.R)

Plots:
1. Off Licence
2. Date Rape
3. Cheating Wife - the characters create a twist at the end

Characters:

2 Lead characters - Consciences, Super ego/ego, Good VS Evil, Devil VS Angel (on shoulder)
3 Supporting characters @ crossroads

- MICRO -
Frozen Shot

2010-01-15T03:26:00.000-08:00

Things to consider:

* Reach - Your target audience
Global audience

*Delivery - Phsyical
Digital

*Price Point - Share of revenue

* Set up costs?

* Exclusive - Competitors

*Visibility/Marketing

Making money from publishing your writing

- Helium market place
- Issuu

Associated Content (website): "The site offers upfront payment for articles on a wide range of topics, both high and lowbrow. You can even sell your research papers and class essays. Even though the site doesn't pay for creative writing, poetry or prose, it does allow you to showcase writing of all kinds. In fact, that's one of the biggest benefits of using Associated Content: it provides the opportunity to present your writing to a large and varied audience. Better yet, Associated Content rewards you (translation: pays you) for page views. you prefer photography over writing, you can create slideshows, too. You can also post your video and audio files to AC and get paid for the number of page views the content receives."
Associated Content pays depending on how many views the page gets.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/795811/how_to_get_paid_to_publish_a_beginners.html

Lulu (website): "Lulu is a place where people can buy or sell many kinds of content. We feature novels, technical manuals, poetry, articles, photographs, animations, and content that defies easy categorization. In other words, we help people distribute information and art that span a wide range of subject matter. As such, we also set out to provide a safe, friendly, and serious site for people of all ages and backgrounds"
"Users are asked to choose the amount of creator revenue they will receive for each piece of Content sold. If Lulu sells your content, and we receive payment, Lulu will pay you the creator revenue amount you chose. In general, Lulu's service fee is 20% of the gross margin resulting from the sale of Content. The gross margin is the net amount actually received for your Content after freight and manufacturing costs are subtracted." - From Lulu website
http://www.lulu.com/about/member_agreement.php#payment

Making money from publishing your films, footage and videos online:
- pay you for your stock footage - istockvideo, gettyimages, thoughtequity, pond5.com
- publish videos on social networking sites and be paid for the adverts around it - flixya
- pay-per-click-through = for every thousand views you get a certain amount of money - assocaited content
- pay per views - metacafe
- authors, musicians and filmakers, revenue share with authors, they will sell and manufacture your work and give you a certain percentage fo the revenue - createspace (amazon)
- they will buy your footage and give you a percentage of your revenue - netflix
- they will master and buy your dvd and sell it on, you get half the money - dvd baby
- distributior to help get on to itunes - tunecore
Making money from publishing your music
CD baby
Myspace music
Tunetribe
Tunecore
Amazon

Making money from publishing your radio
live365.com
tunetribe or tunecore to do a podcast for itunes

BBC Radio player Essay

2009-12-04T03:21:00.000-08:00

a2mediaandtheonlineage.blogspot.com

Last.fm Group Essay

2009-11-27T04:06:00.001-08:00

LastFM Essay
Last.fm is a UK-based Internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. On May 30th 2007, it was announced that Last.fm had been bought by CBS for £140million. After CBS redesigned Last.fm a press release recognized the redesign saying it had generated a 20% growth in the sites traffic. On Tuesday, 24 March 2009 it was announced on the official Last.fm blog that Last.fm will charge users — except for those in the United States, United Kingdom, or Germany — a subscription fee of €3.00 per month for use of Last.fm radio. Since April 27 this subscription has become active.People have their own profiles on last fm when they subscribe, so they can listen to music. You can see their profile picture and how recently they have been on the site. It also tells you the last song they listened to or are currently listening to. You can ‘browse people’ by selecting the country they live in, and what taste in music they have. Last.fm claims over 30 million active users, based in over 200 countries. at the minute LastFM is worth £7.87 million

User interaction
It is now free for artists to sign up and join the pages they may already have from other users. They can then upload their music and earn royalties every time their song is played and their music will be played in radio shows similar to the genre of their music.
There is also a shout box feature that allows the consumer to give feedback on the artist, radio show, group or musical events that are advertised on the artist’s page.
There are also groups that users can join for each artist, genre or tags set up by users. There are discussion boards and forums consumers can also add pictures to the site or the site which can be played in slideshows of artists when they are played.
On each page there is a recent activity section like most social networking sites that update users on tags, comments and other users’ activity in relation to the artist.
Not knowingly the users are always interacting with the site because of the Scrobbler software which automatically uploads what you have been listening to so that the site can develop a playlist / radio show for the user and other users in what they listen to. A customizable display of Recently Played tracks is now available via some web services, allowing users to add them to blogs, MySpace or as forum signatures. To promote the music they listen to.

Availability
Last fm can be played through multiple different devices. They still use scrobbler technology either sending the data automatically with an inbuilt internet connection or the scrobbler software sends the user data to the site when attached to a computer. These devices are:
1. IPod,
2. IPod touch and IPhone,
3. Other players with the Rockbox firmware
4. Playstation portables
5. Microsoft Zune
6. Toshiba's Gigabeat line
7. SanDisk's Sansa series
8. Samsung's YP series
9. TrekStor Vibez
10. Smartphones
11. X-box
There is laso a range of media players with the software that have the software support to send song information to Last FM, some of these are the X-Box media centre, VLV media player, Spotify and aTunes.
There is also plugins available to allow you to use Last FM through players like iTunes, Yahoo music engine, RealPlayer and Napster.

Recommendations for the future
Last.fm has never had a public radio API, although we've tolerated third-party clients using the undocumented calls that our client uses. This is finally about to change - we're going to make a public, documented streaming API available to everyone who has an API account. There are a few limitations:
1. Only subscribers will be allowed to stream using API applications unless you negotiate a separate deal with us - we need to get the money to cover royalties.
2. You won't be allowed to use our API to stream to mobile phones. This is unfortunately a limitation of some of our licensing agreements. (We may make exceptions to this)
These changes should be made by the end of next week. Alongside this, we'll be shutting down the remainder of the old, undocumented streaming APIs over the next couple of weeks.

To allow dance company’s to publish there work onto the site
To do all that is possible to keep up with competitors;
Maintain the site is free
Allow small adverts to cover costs

Rivals of Last FM
Imeem
· Social media site
· Share with friends

Pandora
· Easier then imeem or Last.Fm
· Intelligent internet radio service
· Gives feedback on other things you would like depending on what you have already chosen.
· You can buy tracks from ITunes or Amazon MP3 from this site.

Yahoo Music
· Closed music unlimited service
· Using Rhapsody instead still most popular though
· Based on preferences you give and gives feedback and suggestions based on this.
· Internet Explorer the only compatible browser

ITunes
· Uses Apple
· Pay for music – shop
· Convert it onto your apple phone or TV
Spotify
Adverts after every few tracks
Unlimited free streaming music

Napster
· Been around 10 years
· Mp3 contents shared
· Copyright infringement issues

BBC Announcees Radio Player

2009-11-27T03:52:00.001-08:00

BBC's new Radioplayer lets you search for tunes
Instant streaming of over 400 BBC and commercial channels
By Adam Hartley

BBC Radioplayer launching early 2010 - letting you search over 400 commercial and BBC stations instantly

The BBC's new Radioplayer will finally launch early in the new year, allowing listeners to tune into over 400 live streams of broadcasts from both BBC national and local stations and from leading British commercial radio stations.

Rather niftily, taking lessons from the likes of Spotify and Last.fm, the BBC Radioplayer will also feature and option to let listeners search for individual songs, though specific details on how that technology (and the music licensing details that are behind it) will work are still to be revealed by the BBC.

PCs, phones, TVs

The UK Radioplayer is a pop-up console that will work on PCs initially, with plans afoot to roll it out to other platforms including Mac, IPTV and smartphones soon after launch.

Users will be able to instantly search every station on the network for news, sport, music and their favourite tunes of the moment using the Beeb's newly designed radio search engine.

Stations involved will also be able to develop their own offerings to give listeners all kinds of 'added value' extras such as click-to-buy music services.

Heads of Terms for the project have been signed by the BBC, trade body RadioCentre, Global Radio and Guardian Media Group.

You can check out the BBC's current radio offerings online via its website at www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

Via musicweek.com/

Assessment Criteria

2009-11-20T04:24:00.000-08:00

- Users
- Worth
- Availabiltiy
- User interaction - user generated content
- Rivals
- Recommendations - future

Last FM

2009-11-20T03:58:00.000-08:00

Spotify

2009-11-20T03:46:00.000-08:00

Daniel Ek - founder of Spotify
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8072786.stm

Spotify is the first online music site to get agreement with all four major record labels to sign up to Spotify.

- The UK is the best place to test music streaming as it is number one for downloading
- When you hit 'play' button on Spotify, the song plays instantly - no buffering
- Peer to Peer (when you sign up to a service and download software on to your computer, which is the server, which you share with other computers/people)
- Can buy merchandise, subscribe or listen to free music but you have to listen to adverts every 4 songs
- You can currently only listen to Spotify on your computer
- Main competitiion to Apple

The History Of iTunes

2009-11-20T03:30:00.000-08:00

Version 1.0 - released on 9th January 2001 - Only available fro MAC
Version 2.0 - released 23rd October 2002 - iPod enabled
Version 4.0 - released 28th April 2003 - Music support added, can now buy music
Version 401 - 16th October 2003 - Voice notes and 'On The Go' playlists are added - now compatible with Windows
Version 4.8 - 9th May 2005 - Video support is added
Version 4.9 - June 2005 - Podcast functionality is added
Version 6.0 - 12th October 2005 - ability to transfer video from iTunes to iPod
Version 7 - September 2006 - New function (games) ability to sync cnontent purchased on iTunes to computer.
Version 7.1 - 4th March - added support for Apple TV
Version 7.3 - June 2007 - iPhone activiation and syncing support is introduced
Version 7.6 - 15th January 2008 - Movie rentals via iTunes store is added, and can also transfer content purchased on Apple Tv to the computer
Version 8.0 - 9th September 2008 - the new Genious content-suggestion feature is added, along with the new Grid View and TV shows in HD

Exchange News Conferece 2009 In Malta

2009-11-13T04:08:00.001-08:00

CROWD SOURCING

Walter Dean
Commitee of Concern Journalist

Fran Unsworht
BBC head of newsgathering

Chris Cramer
Global Editor, Thomson Reuters

Simon Bucks
Associate Editor, Sky News

Frederic Filloux
Editor, mondaynote.com

http://www.youritv.com/mediaonline/newswatch.mov

"Media audiences are no longer prepared to be passive" - audiences now want a say e.g on X Factor!

Arianna Huffington
The Huffington Post
"Supplementing proffessional journalism"
"You had the state department asking Twitter to stop maintenenace works on the site as this is the only source of information coming from Iran"
-Surely this is new media showing its status?

Anne McElvoy
London Evening Standard

YourITV..

2009-11-13T04:06:00.001-08:00

http://www.youritv.com/mediaonline/

Participatory Culture..

2009-11-13T03:48:00.000-08:00

A particiatory culture is also one in which memebers believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection with one another (at least they care what other people think about what they have created)

It is a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civil engagement.
New media technology is changing the way we connect to share knowledge and creativity.

Key for revision:

Affiliations - memberships, formal and informale, in online communications centred around various forms of media such as Facebook, message bords, metagaming, game clans, Myspace etc.

Expressions - Producing new creative froms, such as digital sampling, skinning and modding, fan video making, fan fiction, writingm zines, mash-ups

Collaborative Problem-Solving - Working together in teams, formal and informal, to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (such as through Wikipedia and alternative reality gaming

Circulations - Shaping the flow of media (such as Twitter, podcasting, blogging)

Laptops have digital editing software as standard. This has unleashed creativity
Broadband has allowed people to share their creativity

Charles Leadbeater

2009-11-13T03:19:00.000-08:00

MASS INNOVATION NOT MASS PRODUCTION

http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/home.aspx

http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx

Class Project..

2009-11-06T04:38:00.000-08:00

Is 'World Wide Dead' a great example of wikinomics in action?

www.bbc.co.uk/zombies

Issues With Wikinomics..

2009-11-06T04:34:00.001-08:00

- We do need a hierachy/organisation
- Cannot always trust it
- Could be innaccurate
- Bias
- Conflict

Youtube:
When posting videos on YouTube, you receive no profit from them, yet they earn billions! This is the same with many free uploading sites and review websites. If someone writes good reviews, others are more likey to buy the products, therefore the creator earning from your work.
Who earns from Wikinomics?

Wikinomics..

2009-11-06T03:21:00.000-08:00

Authors for Wikinomics books:

Don Tapscott
Anthony D Williams

Wikinomics
- Business
- User Generated Content (UGC)
- Sharing knowledge
- Share music and films

Creative Commons Licence - enables you to remix music - credit the author

OPENESS
SHARING
PEERING
ACTING GLOBALLY

Examples:

Linux (open source - meaning you can modify it and re-distribute it)
Wikipedia (global brain, some is unreliable but it is all there for you to use and contribute to)
YouTube
Blogging
News (we contribute to news/magazines, by selling photo's videos etc.)
Sharing your thoughts on products
Mobilising protests

IPTV

2009-11-06T01:54:00.000-08:00

IPTV stands for Internet Protocol TV. This means television content distributed over the Internet.

There are number of Internet-based TV services on offer in the UK. These offer TV programmes and movies "on-demand" over the Internet using Broadband. Some of these services are available for viewing on your TV, and some on your computer. BT Vision, Virgin Media, Ticali and many more offer similar services, but BT Vision's is unique. The on-demand serviice from BT Vision concects your telly over Broadband, so the shows or movies you select play on your tv via broadband, unlike Virgin where you would recieve it vis Cable.

http://www.greenfieldscommunications.com/releases/08/081127_Continental_VOD.pdf

On this link you will find a graph. This graph indicates 'Comparison of type of programming most watched'. It is showing the different genre of telvision watched, and how it is watchd: VOD via TV or IPTV.

'Monetise TV Content Online'

2009-11-06T01:49:00.001-08:00

http://contentsutra.com/article/419-sab-kanaujia-interview-part-2-monetization-vdopia-tv-experience/">

'What Comes After Channel 4's Ground-Breaking Deal With YouTube?'

2009-11-06T01:47:00.001-08:00

Channel 4’s long-form content deal with YouTube is a cracking deal for the broadcaster, but at what expense to the UK market?
The deal, which puts 4oD on the most popular online video site, gives UK users access to free long-form content including Channel 4’s catch-up and archive programming.

At a time when the publishing industry debates the validity of the paid-for content model, Channel 4 has bravely embraced ad-funded content

The revenue-sharing deal gives the broadcaster a massive boost in eyeballs for its services and creates new premium inventory for its sales teams.

It’s also a big boost for the broadcaster’s 4oD service, which was once the market leader in VOD but has fallen behind its rivals – most notably ITV – in recent months.

It was Channel 4 that took the biggest blow when Kangaroo was prohibited by the Competition Commission. Having invested heavily in the joint-venture service, its collapse left the broadcaster scrambling to reassert itself against rivals which had gained significant ground.

This deal will not only help Channel 4 to realise its ambitions to consolidate 4oD as the leading commercial video-on-demand service, it should also deliver huge revenues, with the broadcaster reportedly getting the majority of the revenue split.

The timing is also significant, coming as speculation increases that ITV is merely weeks away from securing an ad-revenue deal with Hulu, the joint-venture online TV service from News Corporation, NBC Universal and Disney.

Channel 4’s deal with YouTube is certain to be the first of many from the Google-owned behemoth and makes it a serious contender to Hulu et al. But as Hulu readies for its UK launch, rumours abound it’s not the only US network sniffing around our shores.

When Kangaroo was quashed, the fear was it would leave the market open to a US invasion, damaging investment in UK programming and services. Sadly, this deal is the first of many we’ll see in the coming months that make those fears a reality as content deals with big US companies become inevitable for UK content owners.

Related Articles
Channel 4 brings 4oD to YouTube
Thu, 15 Oct 2009.

Cover story: YouTube hands over ad sales to publishers
2 July 2009.

Cover story: YouTube to offer full-length shows in UK
21 May 2009.

-newmediaage.co.uk

Online TV and TV content online

2009-10-23T00:56:00.000-07:00

BBC iPlayer

BBC iPlayer is a service available via website, P2P, cable television, and several mobile devices developed by the BBC to extend its existing RealPlayer-based "Radio Player" and other streamed video clip content. BBC iPlayer is free for viewers to use.

BBC iPlayer began to add new features to make their online tv provider unique. A new feature, Series Stacking, was announced. This feature allows viewers to watch previous programmes from selected series until the series has ended, with a limit of up to thirteen weeks after first broadcast. This is obviously a good feature that viewers may not be able to access on their televisions. More developments were made and they incorporated high-definition streams and downloads of some content on the iPlayer. BBC iPlayer introduced a steaming version of iPlayer where offers replays of programmes broadcast on all BBC TV channels during the last seven days.

I found this news bulletin about BBC iPlayer which I found particulary helpful and interesting, this is highlighting how iPlayer is changing.

BBC iPlayer goes high definition

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8008886.stm

BBC Gives the iPlayer a fesive push

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/18/bbc.digitalmedia

BBC Trust turn down iPlayer plan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8317153.stm

BBC iPlayer 'risks overloading the internet'

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3716781.ece

Media Consumption Habits

2009-10-22T05:59:00.000-07:00

'Media Consumption Habits Are Changing As A Result Of the Emergence of Multiple Distribution Channels and the Arrival of Non-Traditional Competitors'

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Sept_27/ai_n16837104/

'Changing media consumption habits? We still luv luv luv our TV'

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/09/11/changing-media-consumption-habits-we-still-luv-luv-luv-our-tv/

This next video goes on a bit, but the beginning is really relevant to how our media consumption habits have changed over the years.