The future is tough to predict, whether it’s who will dominate the senate in 2012 or what Obama will have for lunch tomorrow (whole grains are probably a good bet). At the turn of the century, I don’t think anyone expected “Friendster” to fall off the face of the planet, and Facebook was hardly a glimmer [...]

As we have learned over the course of this semester, the new media has altered political discourse in our society in a variety of important ways.  The new media’s power in helping political candidates fund-raise for their campaigns has been made crystal clear in recent years – Barack Obama’s incredible fundraising success in 2008, and the [...]

As citizens of the new media, we may be obsessively content with our personalized Facebook profiles and consumed in the the thought of our potential tweet, but I think it is safe to say that we are all curious and frightful for what the future holds for our news. While the public expresses concern, so do [...]

At Goldman Sachs’ annual media conference in early 2009, News Corp chairman, Rupert Murdoch, told investors “I do certainly see the day when more people will be buying their newspapers on portable reading panels than on crushed trees.” A few months later Murodch, in conjunction with Apple’s Steve Jobs, introduced The Daily, a periodical produced exclusively [...]

After spending a semester studying the ins and outs of the new media, I think we can all come to the conclusion that there is a great deal of cleaning up to do in the news business. Underneath the blogosphere and comment muck alike there is real work and original reporting that can be brought to [...]