Category Archives: Individuated Media

Social Networks Spread Defiance Online – NYTimes.com

On Twitter, reports and links to photos from a peaceful mass march through Tehran on Monday, along with accounts of street fighting and casualties around the country, have become the most popular topic on the service worldwide, according to Twitter’s published statistics. A couple of Twitter feeds have become virtual media offices for the supporters …

July 30, 2009 – 12:20 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples, Individuated Media, Trends, What is News | Comments (0)

The Rating Game – The Atlantic (July/August 2009)

The proliferation in ratings is already changing societal dynamics. Look at its impact on the relationship between doctors and patients. According to Pew, 47 percent of Internet users now search online for information about doctors. Ratings, though still just a trickle, are increasingly part of that information. Now, if a medical practice routinely leaves patients …

July 30, 2009 – 12:17 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in About audiences, Customization, Individuated Media | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Dallas – Unfair Park – This American Life’s Ira Glass Points Toward the “Wide-Open” Future of Journalism

“I can imagine that would be a place that journalism could move towards and survive,” said Glass, suggesting a casual conversation would replace the medium’s more “stiff” formalities. Because Glass, you see, is one of the few in the media who doesn’t believe these are terrible times for the news industry. Instead, he said, “I …

July 29, 2009 – 12:07 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Customization, New Roles | Comments (0)

How early online newspaper production tools led the industry down the wrong path

Image by Sentrawoods. via Flickr I believe that the hoops we had to jump through to get newspaper stories online influenced newspaper managers’ perceptions about the difficulty of online publishing. Sure, many of us had personal websites and knew how it easy it was to slap together a page in HTML (or by using an …

July 24, 2009 – 2:12 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Individuated Media, Innovator/Pirates | Comments (0)

‘School of One’ Pilot Program Under Way in Chinatown Middle School 131 – NYTimes.com

students arrive at school, they receive their individual playlists identifying the lessons they have to complete for the day, which could involve virtual tutoring online, computer worksheets or small-group lessons with a classroom teacher. Their schedules are also displayed on large television screens, akin to flight schedule displays in airports. In a room a few …

July 22, 2009 – 12:06 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Customization, Individuated Media | Tagged | Comments (0)