MediaSnack-snack-snackers#24
[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' or articles to sum it all up for any 'MediaSnacker-virgins':
The need to know the capital of Florida died when my phone learned the answer.
From a great article about creative thinking in education.
The public school system is designed to produce a workforce for an economy that will not be there. And therefore, with all the best intentions in the world, we're stealing the kids' future.
The words of Alvin Toffler
Adults going online for the first time are entering a world that has been shaped by the interests, desires and concerns of the younger generation, a world that does not operate according to the rules they have followed in real life.
The growing culture clash of older people exploring online worlds like Facebook.
It was very clear that we had to do something because at the moment what we do is spend £6m commissioning TV programmes aimed at 14to19 year olds and then put them out in the morning when they're at school.
The core of the decision behind Channel 4 axing its school programmes.
Trying to clone the success of blockbuster Web sites like Club Penguin and Webkinz, childrens entertainment companies are drastically accelerating efforts to build virtual worlds for kids. Media conglomerates in particular think that these sites—part online role-playing game and part social scene—can deliver quick growth, help keep movie franchises alive and instill brand loyalty in a generation of new customers.
Old school media rushing to meet new school media.
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Filed by DK on January 22 2008
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