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Tag Archive for 'media'

New Media Politics

On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of hosting a show on Ustream.tv of the New Hampshire primary. Throughout, I called in various folks, including Ethan Bodnar and Vicki Davis, to discuss issues ranging from educational standards and evolution to candidates’ understanding of technology. It was a great experience which definitely was more fun (and enlightening) than just watching the polls on CNN. On the Republican side, McCain took an easy win. However, the Democrats had it more hotly contested between Obama and Clinton—the close competition kept the show going until 23:00 EST. If you would like to see how students saw the New Hampshire primary, I invite you to watch this video:

Hopefully, I can host a couple more of these discussions as we continue into the elections. If you don’t want to miss the next one, be sure to monitor the twitterverse.

Unfortunately, I lost my chat transcript and am unable to share it. If you were there and have a copy, please contact me.

Prometeus

The future is digital. In the future, reality is digital. Everyone is a prosumer. Web 2.0 is just the beginning of the social revolution. News will be social. Politicis will be social. Reality will be social. Prepare for the media revolution.

I’m not sure about the whole idea of digital reality… I was never one to embrace alternate realities like Second Life and World of Warcraft. Instead, I think we will get to a point where everything around us is digitalized, but we are still in reality. Consider everything being a Surface and every device/appliance/object being connected to the Internet. The line between reality and cyberspace begins to thin…