MCJ 178 Articles Fall 2012

Intro

• Changes to come: 9 past predictions for funky 70’s tech. Gatjiz.com, November 8, 2010. http://gajitz.com/changes-to-come-9-past-predictions-for-funky-70s-tech/

Media Effects

• Welcome
  to the Brave New World of Persuasion Profiling. By Eli Pariser, Wired 19.05, May 2011, http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/st_essay_persuasion_profiling/

Diffusion of Innovations

• Clive Thompson on Why Gadget Makers Should Target Late Adopters. By Clive Thompson, Wired 18.06, June 2010. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/st_thompson_technophobes/

Digital Cinema

• Adventures in Cybersound: The Inventors in Cinema. About.com. http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/MOVIE_HIST_MOMI.html
• 3D Movie Theater Technology. 3D Media News, Sept. 8, 2011. http://3dmedia.com/news/18/3D-Movie-Theater-Technology
• US 3D Cinema Infrastructure Up, But Revenues Down. By Jeffrey Henning, Researchscape, Monday, July 16, 2012. http://www.researchscape.com/_blog/Articles/post/US_3D_Cinema_Infrastructure_Up,_But_Revenues_Down/
• Why I Hate 3-D. By Roger Ebert, Newsweek, May 10, 2010. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/30/why-i-hate-3-d-and-you-should-too.html

Digital Radio & Audio

• The Invention of Radio. By Mary Bellis, About.com,
  Page 1 =http://inventors.about.com/od/rstartinventions/a/radio.htm
  Page 2 =http://inventors.about.com/od/rstartinventions/a/radio_2.htm
• 2011 The Year that internet radio went social. By Matthew Lazar, Radio Survivor, Dec. 13, 2011. http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2011/12/13/2011-the-year-that-internet-radio-went-social/
• Brewer: Watching Online Media Trends. By Kerry Brewer, Radio Ink Magazine, Aug. 6, 2012. http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2161052&spid=30800  

Digital Television

• The Death of Television. By Evan Shapiro, HuffPost TV, Dec. 14, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evan-shapiro/the-death-of-television_b_1144369.html
• Digital TV (HDTV) [DTV section of article]. Interactive Television Dictionary. [http://www.itvdictionary.com/hdtv.html [Need to scroll down past alphabetical index.]
• Why 3D TV Went From CES Darling to Consumer Reject. By
  Christina Bonnington, Wired, January 5, 2012. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/state-of-3-d-technology/
• Nielsen: Smart TVs Catching on in U.S. homes. By Mike Snider, USA TODAY, Aug. 3, 2012. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2012/08/nielsen-smart-tvs-catching-on-in-us-homes/1#.UDLdvKAbHbg

Newspaper/Multimedia Journalism

• Stop the Presses: the Future of Newspapers. By Daniel Burrus, Technorati, April 12, 2012  http://technorati.com/business/article/stop-the-presses-the-future-of/
• Multimedia in Journalism. By Mona Zang, Media Bistro, Nov. 3, 2011. http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/multimedia-journalism-interview-amy-harmon-quick-link_b8143
• Where Video Journalism is Headed. Online Journalism Review http://blogswork.wordpress.com/video-storytelling/where-video-journalism-is-headed/

Copyright

• Understanding Intellectual Property Basics. By Gene Quinn, IPWatchdog.com, August 16, 2009. http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/08/16/understanding-intellectual-property-basics/id=4914/
• DMCA Copyright and Fair Use… American Library Association. http://guides.library.jhu.edu/content.php?pid=276399&sid=2388869
• Mars Landing Videos, and Other Casualties of the Robot Wars. By Parker Higgins Electronic Frontier Foundation, August 8, 2012. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/mars-landing-videos-and-other-casualties-robot-wars

Computers & the Internet

• A Brief History of Computers.
  Part 1: http://goldenink.com/computersandnetworks.shtml,
  Part 2: http://goldenink.com/computersandnetworks2.shtml
• A Brief History of the Internet. By Walt Howe, Last updated March 24, 2010. http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html
• Smartphones Will Replace Desktops, Eventually. By Deeptaman Mukherjee, Technically Personal, Jan. 8, 2012. http://techpp.com/2012/01/08/smartphones-will-replace-desktops-eventually/
• The Future of Personal Computing. By Tim Bajarin, Time Techland, August 13, 2012. http://techland.time.com/2012/08/13/the-future-of-personal-computing-cloud-connected-screens-everywhere/
• A Smart Phone Future, But Not Yet. By Teddy Wayne, The New York Times, March 23, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/fashion/a-hardy-group-holds-out-on-smartphones.html?pagewanted=all

Google

• Secret of Googlenomics: Data-fueled recipe breeds profitability. By Steven Levy, Wired 17.06, June 2009. http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-06/nep_googlenomics?currentPage=all
• For Google, Future of the Personal Computer Takes Many Forms. By Joanna Stern, ABC Good Morning America, July 2, 2012. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/google-glasses-android-laptops-computers-talk-googles-computing/story?id=16680513#.UDO38aAbHbh
• Facebook vs. Google, Who Will Win? By Christina DesMarais, PCWorld, May 19,
  2012. http://www.pcworld.com/article/255866/facebook_vs_google_who_will_win.html

The Internet and Our Brains

• Reading in a whole new way. By Kevin Kelly, Smithsonian, August 2010.
  Page 1=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/40th-anniversary/Reading-in-a-Whole-New-Way.html,
  Page 2 =http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/40th-anniversary/Reading-in-a-Whole-New-Way.html?c=y&page=2
• Is Google making us stupid? By Nicholas Carr, The
  Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
• The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires the Brain. By Nicholas Carr, Wired 18.06, May 24, 2010, published in magazine June 2010. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/
• Google Searches May Influence What People Forget, Test Finds. By Elizabeth
  Lopatto, Jul 14, 2011, Bloomberg.  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-14/google-searches-may-influence-what-people-forget-test-finds.html
• Your Brain On Computers: Attached to Technology and Paying a Price. By Matt Richtel, New York Times Technology, June 6, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Net Neutrality

• Net Neutrality in a Nutshell. By Peter S. Vogel, Ecommerce Times, May 11, 2011. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72425.html
• Keeping the Internet Neutral. By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, May 8, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/business/economy/net-neutrality-and-economic-equality-are-intertwined.html
• Senate Votes to Retain Net Neutrality Rules. By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 2011. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/11/business/la-fi-net-neutrality-20111111
• FCC names Disney, Netflix, AT&T to net-neutrality oversight panel. By Andrew Feinberg, The Hill, May 29, 2012. http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/229835-fcc-names-disney-netflix-atat-to-net-neutrality-oversight-panel

Social Media

• Is Facebook Ready For the Big Time? By Shayndi Raice, The Wallstreet Journal, January 14, 2012. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204542404577157113178985408.html
• The Beginning of the End For Facebook? By Ben Bajarin, Time Techland, Dec. 5, 2011.[Two pages] http://techland.time.com/2011/12/05/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-facebook/
• Film School: TED Curator Chris Anderson on Crowd Accelerated Innovation. By Chris Anderson, Wired, December 27, 2010. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_tedvideos/
• Social Media History: From Prehistoric Paint to Post-Modern Posts.By Eric Harr, SocialMediaToday, July 2, 2011. http://socialmediatoday.com/eric-harr-resonate-social-media/312400/social-media-prehistoric-paint-postmodern-posts
• Twitter Goes to the Movies. By Rachel Dodes, The WallStreet Journal, August 3, 2012. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443343704577553270169103822.html
• FTC Finalizes Privacy Settlement With Facebook.The Associated Press, Aug. 10, 2012. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-08-10/ftc-facebook-privacy/56934670/1
• Facebook ‘likes’ and adverts’ value doubted. By Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News, July 12, 2012. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18813237 [explore the “VirtualBagel” test using the tabs at the top of the page]
• Going public: Key developments in Facebook’s IPO. By the Associated Press, August 20, 2012. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-08-20/going-public-key-developments-in-facebooks-ipo
• Digitally Fatigued: For The Plugged-In, Too Many Choices.By Stephanie Rosenbloom, The New York Times, Aug. 10, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/fashion/digitally-fatigued-networkers-try-new-sites-but-strategize-to-avoid-burnout.html?_r=3

The Digital Divide

• The Digital Divide, ICT and the 50X15 Initiative. Internet World Stats, Aug. 11, 2012. http://www.internetworldstats.com/links10.htm
• The NewDigital Divide. By Susan P. Crawford, The New York Times, Dec. 3, 2011.. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/internet-access-and-the-new-divide.html?pagewanted=all
• The Outlook For the FCC and Broadband: Not Good. By Bruce Kushnick, Nieman Watchdog, Dec. 29, 2011. http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=600

Future Visions

• The Ten Dumbest Tech Predictions of All Time. By Cody Willard, Wll Street Journal: Market Watch, January 3, 2011. http://blogs.marketwatch.com/cody/2011/01/03/top-10-dumbest-tech-predictions-of-all-time/
• Ten Infamous Technology Predictions That Were Wrong. Listsaur.com, May 21, 2012 http://listosaur.com/science-a-technology/10-infamous-technology-predictions-that-were-wrong.html
• Ten Future Technology Predictions That Were Right. By Arthur Weinstein,
  Listsaur.com, January 16, 2011. http://www.listosaur.com/science-a-technology/10-future-technology-predictions-that-were-right.html