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MTV Leak
[SUMMARY—Why it's good (or not) to take a leak.]
(WORLD) Consumer trends have shown that the number of compact discs bought over the last few years have rapidly decreased. Due to the increase of illegal downloading and sending the files to all your friends, record companies are finding it difficult to trace the popularity of their bands.
However, as a result of websites such as MTV Leak, kids are getting a chance to preview full length albums a week before they are released—giving them a taster of a band's sound. It's a clever technique used. Seeing as all us kids do all day is surf the Internet, MTV has connected with us, using the very same medium we've exercised.
Filed by DK on October 28 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers Podcast#49
[SUMMARY—The 49th MediaSnackers podcast hooks up with the presenter and producer of the Jet Set Show.]
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Zadi Diaz is the presenter and producer of youth-orientated vodcast, the Jet Set Show.
0.00—0.10 Intro
0.11—1.10 Zadi introduces herself and Jet Set Show
1.11—2.10 how the Jet Set Show started
2.11—4.06 the logistics
4.07—5.55 why you don't need Hollywood or make it look like TV
5.56—8.39 no barriers for entry but who's directing the change
8.40—10.14 who else is impressing
10.15—10.27 Thanks and outro
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Filed by DK on October 28 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers Podcast#48
[SUMMARY—The 48th MediaSnackers podcast discusses CurrentTV.]
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Ezra Cooperstein, Director of viewer created content, or VC2, for CurrentTV.
0.00—0.10 Intro
0.11—1.01 Ezra introduces his role for CurrentTV
1.02—2.04 what CurrentTV is and why it's different
2.05—3.34 what the other networks are doing
3.35—4.50 dangers/beauty of too many voices
4.51—7.34 media menu democratisation
6.05—7.10 the impact of CurrentTV
7.11—8.42 legislators vs open source
8.43—10.44 flavour of CurrentTV content
10.58—11.03 Thanks and outro
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Filed by DK on October 28 2006 | READ IT »
Good or Bad—Who Do You Believe?
[SUMMARY—Is gaming evil or good?]
(WORLD) We all know that playing too many video fries your brain and makes you a walking zombie… or does it?
You have to question the validity of a report which was commissioned by one of the biggest video games manufacturer, but apparently, video games can be used as a teaching tool.
70% of the surveyed teachers felt that playing games could lead to anti-social behaviour while 30% of students believed that playing games could lead to increased violence and aggression.
But according to another study it's all about the time spent: gaming slightly hurt school performance, but only when the students spent more than four hours each day at it over the weekend.
See below for article links and make up your own mind.
Video games have 'role in school'
Gaming Hurts School Performance
Filed by DK on October 27 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers Podcast#47
[SUMMARY—The 47th MediaSnackers podcast catches up with the co-founder of music site last.fm.]
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Martin Stiksel is co-founder of music social networking site (with a twist—or should that be 'scroble'?) last.fm.
0.00—0.10 Intro
0.11—1.06 Martin gives an overview of last.fm and his role
1.07—3.44 how last.fm works
2.21—3.28 numbers and demographics
3.29—5.12 replication of the platform?
5.13—7.34 sharing aspects of new media
7.35—9.07 future of last.fm
9.08—9.26 Thanks and outro
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Filed by DK on October 26 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers @ Work
[SUMMARY—What the next generation expects.]
(WORLD) MediaSnacking is not just a personal and entertainment driven phenomenon—as young people enter the world of work they will take with them the expectations and skills from their mediasnacking lives.
But are the employers ready for such a change?
Check out this article and also this one, both focusing on how companies have to adapt and adopt new technologies in respect to attracting and keeping the new generation of MediaSnackers.
Filed by DK on October 25 2006 | READ IT »
YouTubers
[SUMMARY—A video montage of YouTubers.]
(WORLD) Simple. Engrossing. Beautiful. Tragic.
(Note how many are young people.)
Filed by DK on October 24 2006 | READ IT »
Ghana Youth Photo Project
[SUMMARY—Positive African youth project.]
(GHA) Just watch!
Filed by DK on October 22 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers Podcast#46
[SUMMARY—The 46th MediaSnackers podcast hooks up with marketing agency Mr Youth.]
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Matt Britton is co-founder of Mr.Youth, a youth marketing agency in America.
0.00—0.10 Intro
0.11—0.39 Matt introduces himself and his role
0.40—3.44 motivations and aims behind Mr. Youth
3.45—5.23 impact of user-generated content
5.24—6.43 rise of individualistic media consumption habits
6.44—7.41 future trends
7.42—9.37 brands who are impressing
9.38—9.50 Thanks and outro
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Filed by DK on October 21 2006 | READ IT »
$50,000,000
[SUMMARY—A new digital learning initiative with clout!]
(US) The MacArthur Foundation has pledged $50 million over the next five years to help build the emerging field of digital media and learning.
Digital Media and Learning initiative
Jonathan Fanton, the Foundation’s President:
This is the first generation to grow up digital, coming of age in a world where computers, the internet, videogames, and cell phones are common, and where expressing themselves through these tools is the norm. Given how present these technologies are in their lives, do young people act, think and learn differently today? And what are the implications for education and for society?
WOW—exactly the focus of MediaSnackers ;-)
What an initiative though and makes me wish I could put my virtual hand up to take part.
Filed by DK on October 21 2006 | READ IT »
Digital Media Initiative
[SUMMARY—Educating young people in media/digital literacy.]
(US) A new initiative enabling young people to question and analyse the role of digital media in their lives has been launched by US-based Global Kids.
Funded by a $900,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation, they will be engaging with young people on their own digital turf in Teen Second Life and through existing youth media groups.
It just makes sense, educating young people about media literacy through the mediums they are already using. Looking forward to seeing the results.
Filed by DK on October 21 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnack-snack-snackers#5
[SUMMARY—Quotes which illustrate.]
(WORLD) MediaSnackers are being served more and more ways to snack on their chosen media than ever. It's hard to differentiate between companies and start-ups enabling snacking or the snacking trends driving media platform development, but here are a couple of quotes from the 'experts' to sum it all up for any 'MediaSnacker-virgins':
Consumers have voted. They said this is where I'm spending my time, and if you want to find me here, you have to get used to the fact that everything is not pretty and rosy here.
Joanne K. Bradford, Microsoft's corporate vice president for advertising sales talking in this article about advertising on youth-focussed social networking sites.
Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change.
Howard Rheingold, author of the influential Smart Mobs and long-time Web observer.
MTV Networks recently celebrated an industry "first", becoming the first network to debut a television program in-world prior to on air. Never before has a television show debuted in-world before on-air. The debut coincided with the Winter Formal episode, in which cast members attended the big dance. Immediately after the show's debut, members within VLB had the opportunity to attend their own version of the Winter Formal.
MTV Networks representative, discussing Virtual Laguna Beach in this interview.
MediaSnack-snack-snackers #1, 2, 3 & 4.
Filed by DK on October 20 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers Podcast#45
[SUMMARY—The 45th MediaSnackers podcast talks to 17 year old podcast hosting business founder.]
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
Jake Fisher is co-founder of Switchpod, a podcast hosting platform.
0.00—0.10 Intro
0.11—0.48 Jake introduces himself and his role
0.49—1.03 overview of Switchpod
1.04—1.25 history of Swtitchpod and user stats
1.26—2.01 popular examples
2.02—2.41 motivations behind the service
2.42—3.00 expectations
3.01—3.55 peer attitudes/opinions
3.56—4.27 user-generated content discussions
4.26—5.05 future trends
5.06—5.40 podcasting heroes
5.41—7.45 educational application of podcasts
7.46—8.20 future of podcasting
8.21—8.37 Thanks and outro
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Filed by DK on October 19 2006 | READ IT »
Next Generation Insights
[SUMMARY—From the mouths of MediaSnackers.]
(US) Next Generation Insights is an hour long video focusing on a group of 16-24 year old American youngsters and their media/technology usage. Led by uber-business-guru Guy Kawasaki, whose opening statements about how he and many of his peers regard investing in youth media/technology is like:
…the dumb leading the blind…
The panel discussions cover topics like mobile phone usages, role of IM, video games, TV consumption, effective advertising, online gaming, RSS feeds, technology ownership and much more.
I'm thinking a perfect model for MediaSnackers to replicate with our move into vodcasting (hint, hint) :-)
Filed by DK on October 17 2006 | READ IT »
The World Has Changed…#13
[SUMMARY—Illustrating the ever-changing media menu.]
(WORLD) More evidence that the world is changing for MediaSnackers everywhere from these recent articles:
•One of the largest UK children's charities has launched a guide on 'safeguarding implications of information and communication technology (ICT) for practitioners working with children or adult offenders';
•the most popular sites amongst 12-17 year olds are those which assist in designing social networking profiles and page layouts;
•radio listening for young people have dropped from 15.75 hours to 12.75 hours a week;
•MediaSnackers wants the new multi-media Apple iCcart;
•According to some new research, young people are less likely to light up if they understand media.
Related posts: The World Has Changed#1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
Filed by DK on October 16 2006 | READ IT »
South Korean Video Game Culture
[SUMMARY—How and why video gaming culture has embedded itself.]
(KOR) Seth Schiesel, writed for New York Times offers a great insight into the gaming culture of South Korea in this online multimedia presentation.
Fascinating and also suprising stuff, especially how parents are encouraging their children to play online games, how the government paved the way for this adoption and also how much it has embedded into social culture.
Thanks for the tip, John.
Filed by DK on October 13 2006 | READ IT »
Can vs Should
[SUMMARY—Questioning the $100 laptop project (tentatively).]
(WORLD) The One Laptop per Child project is simply amazing—'a potent learning tool created expressly for the world's poorest children living in its most remote environments'.
Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association:
It's an education project, not a laptop project.
The development of these machines will no doubt increase the educational opportunities for so many young people all over the globe, however, am I the only one asking whether it's not a case of 'can' we do this but more whether we 'should'?
Filed by DK on October 11 2006 | READ IT »
Future Trends
[SUMMARY—…in the MediaSnackers world?]
(WORLD) Facing a world in constant flux, MediaSnackers everywhere will experience a media/technological change on a magnitude like no other generation; but what will be the dominant future trends in the next 5-10 years time?
Peter F. Drucker said:
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
With this in mind, here's my take on what MediaSnackers across the globe will be facing (in no particular order):
Filed by DK on October 11 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnack-snack-snackers;#4
[SUMMARY—Quotes which illustrate.]
(WORLD) MediaSnackers are being served more and more ways to snack on their chosen media than ever. It's hard to differentiate between companies and start-ups enabling snacking or the snacking trends driving media platform development, but here are a couple of quotes from the 'experts' to sum it all up for any 'MediaSnacker-virgins':
We believe that [young people] can produce compeling content without necessarily having the resume or the film school degree, or having worked for five years getting someone coffee at the appropriate agency.
Joanna Drake Earl, President of Online, Current TV.
We call [kids] 'screen-agers' because they spend so much time with televisions and computers.
Robert Denniston, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control talking about using YouTube in the latest anti-drug media campaign.
If you really want to know what will happen with the Internet, ask a 13-year-old.
Vinton Cerf, vice president of Google in his keynote speech at the Upper Great Plains Technology Conference.
MediaSnack-snack-snackers #1, 2 & 3.
Filed by DK on October 10 2006 | READ IT »
Permission-based Viewing
[SUMMARY—MediaSnackers are adding a 'lock and key' to their digital capital.]
(WORLD) The growth of mediasnacking coupled with the rise in digital capital creation, has led to 'permission-based viewing'.
After content-creation, content-sharing is what all MediaSnackers love to do—create a tune, take a pic, launch a blog, find a new trend, make a profile etc, then share, share, share…
However, more and more popular platforms such as MySpace, Flickr, Bebo, Radar, Imbee etc. are providing protection to content and permission-based restrictions for their users.
As the 'digital breadcrumbs' of peoples lives become more and more obvious, this new trend will blossom and flourish as mediasnackers take control of access from the mass to the few—permission-based viewing.
Related post: Digital Capital and Future Trends
Filed by DK on October 7 2006 | READ IT »
Showing Off Online
[SUMMARY—Everybody wants their 15MB of fame!]
(UK/WORLD) Following my previous post and much showing off to friends and teachers at school, I've been flooded with requests to be included in my next post (this is as about as shameless as shameless posts go—Hi to Lauren, Rosanna and Mr. Sathiakumar—I know Sir, I should be doing my coursework! And to everyone else that wanted to be included…)
As a result of this, I decided this would be a perfect topic for my next post. We all know that Mediasnackers is all about the creating and consuming of media from kids, but what about being included and fully submerged in it? I turn, once again, to the ever reliable MySpace. The perfect source for being included on the Web. Creating profiles for everyone to see soon becomes an online popularity contest. I've found that after 2 years of owning an account, teenagers can be a fickle, pretentious bunch of people, competing for the most friends, the best picture comments, the most unsettling photos and the most arrogant autobiographies—whichever will gain them the most attention. It's the place where you spark interest from being outrageous, 'random', and following a trend. The current 'trend' on MySpace is 'scene'. A far cry from 'emo'. "My God, what is she talking about?" is screaming through your head now.
Filed by DK on October 7 2006 | READ IT »
Imbee Update
[SUMMARY—New services added.]
(WORLD) The tween-focussed social networking site with a chaperoned-media model, Imbee, has launched a new services.
A free school blogging program:
Imbee's new Teacher Feature enables teachers to extend their classroom onto the Internet and establish class blogs and online interaction. Teacher Feature enables teachers and parents to work together closely to guide children's foray into social networking while bolstering classroom learning.
Also, Imbee was just recognized by a national Internet safety organization (USA) as being a great secure place for kids.
Related post: MediaSnackers Podcast#3
Filed by DK on October 3 2006 | READ IT »
MediaSnackers Podcast#44
[SUMMARY—The 44th MediaSnackers podcast discusses a new mobile platform for photo-sharing.]
(WORLD) The MediaSnackers podcast focusses on individuals, organisations or companies who are simply impressing us and which are crying out for more discussion.
John Poisson, founder of Radar discusses this new photo-sharing site with a twist.
0.00—0.10 Intro
0.10—0.44 John introduces himself, his background and Tiny Pictures
0.45—1.25 overview of Radar
1.26—2.45 expanding the 'sharing' remit of the mobile phone
2.46—3.55 permission-based content sharing
3.56—4.55 providing a platform rather than the tools
4.56—5.55 Radar integration into existing platforms
5.56—6.50 public beta launch
6.51—7.44 not needing access to web
7.45—8.59 future trends
9.00—9.56 mobile platform trends
10.37—10.49 Thanks and outro
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Filed by DK on October 3 2006 | READ IT »
Phatgnat Youth Survey
[SUMMARY—Take a survey and win prizes… if you're lucky!]
(WORLD) The Phatgnat Youth Survey is live!
Aged between 11-25? Then take the simple and quick survey. Phatgnat wants to know the reasons and motivations behind your purchasing decisions. For your time, they are giving you a chance to win some fab prizes.
If you work with young people please help and disseminate the survey link to them :-)
Filed by DK on October 3 2006 | READ IT »
The World Has Changed…#12
[SUMMARY—Illustrating the ever-changing media menu.]
(WORLD) More evidence that the world is changing for MediaSnackers everywhere from these recent articles:
• Kansas State University is planning to offer its 6,000 classes this year as podcasts;
• but other universities are banning Skype;
• even though TV's now outnumber us;
• there are claims that watching TV on school nights affects young peoples grades;
• finally, take a look at how some kids are simply saying 'screw hollywood '.
Related posts: The World Has Changed#1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Filed by DK on October 3 2006 | READ IT »
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