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How the social media revolution challenges the university

March 30th, 2010

Recent changes in media brought on by developments in the web, its impact on established news outlets, and the rise of social media have dramatically altered the ecology of information. Its time to starting thinking what this means for universities.

Last year I wrote a series of posts on “revolutions in the media economy” (see parts [...]

Revolutions in the media economy (5) – the pay wall folly for photographers

December 22nd, 2009

This has been a momentous year for media. In my previous four posts on the revolutions in the media economy, I have used the present uncertainty to take a fresh look at the past many now view nostalgically. This critical view demonstrated that newspapers have always been commercial enterprises rather than altruistic associations, they were [...]