Media100 Summer 2015

During the next 18 months, expect to see a massive shift in New Zealand's media landscape.

A handy navigational aid as we steer a course through the stormy seas of social media...

Thanks Brenda for forwarding this.

More here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoWmoG9zsFEc7kTRx2MOs2g

"Dot com email is a fake - Warner Bros", NZ Herald, 15 Sept, 2014

Here's a slightly tangential footnote to Wednesday's lecture on Media Texts.

I talked about fashion as a medium in our first lecture. Here's a blog that explores this very topic! There are some very interesting posts here.

I enjoyed this discussion on media technologies in 2015 on Radio NZ last weekend. Well worth a listen!

A class-action settlement intended to ensure that Facebook obtained consent before using people â€as images or other data in ads is about to receive another legal challenge.

"It's one of the ironies of our branded age, that unbranded space. Public space, or pseudo-public space, is now a luxury item that is only really available to the very rich. Once you move up the class hierarchy, things get a lot more tranquil and quiet, and you sort of pay not to be marketed to. HBO is the same in a way. You pay extra not to be advertised to. Bahamas bans McDonald's. When rich people get together, they want to be protected from the brands that they got rich creating."

I found it at last! Here's the Open Happiness music video

DRM is one of the most salient, and least understood, facts about technology in the contemporary world

How to refurbish a Pop Star http://theoatmeal.com/comics/pop_star

The Oatmeal on The State of the Music Industry

This is a great analysis of Beyoncé and her alter ego Sasha Fierce, focusing on three of Beyoncé's songs; Single Ladies, Countdown and Run the World (Girls).

For the musicologists and the Bey fans