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How the New Media are Changing Our Lives
Ruben Canlas [email protected]
November 24, 2010
Old and “New” media
OLD (Mass media) NEW
NewspapersTelevision
RadioFilm
WebBlogs
Web videoMobile
1 USA
2 UK
3 Turkey
4 Indonesia
5 France
6 Canada
7 Italy
8 Philippines
9 Spain
10 Australia
0 27,500,000 55,000,000 82,500,000 110,000,000
7,611,920
7,701,200
8,387,560
13,272,760
14,228,460
14,290,700
14,681,580
16,943,780
22,625,300
101,303,240
TOP 10 COUNTRIES ON FACEBOOK
Number of Facebook users
USA
UK
Turkey
Indonesia
France
Canada
Italy
Philippines
Spain
Australia
0 750 1500 2250 3000
75.8
196.7
2046.8
137.6
31.0
117.0
1536.7
113.2
51.5
140.8
12-MONTH GROWTH RATE (%)
12 month growth %
Trends
• Young people rarely watch TV (they download)
• iTunes is now the world’s number one music store (Tower Records collapsed)
• Newspaper subscriptions/readership declining by 10-20% per year
Implications
• Alternatives to advertising on TV
• Product placements in show itself
• Shift to social marketing and web
• FB, Twitter
http://www.suchtweetsorrow.com/media/images/background3.jpg
Do you surf for convenience or
content?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/
• How do we to filter the enormous amount of information delivered to us by search engines?
• How confident are we in our ability to find the ‘right answer’ when looking for information on the web?
• How much do we concentrate when we’re using the web, even when we’re using it to make potentially life-changing decisions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/articles/webbehaviour/index.html
• How much of today’s web surfing do you actually remember?
• How influential are ‘super brands’ in defining the choices we make online?
• How do we decide on the reliability or ‘authority’ of information provided by others online?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/articles/webbehaviour/index.html
Technology is facilitating education.
Technology is helping access to health.
Technology is speeding up creativity and the spread of creative
work.
Fan fic
Where did the original stories come from?
But big companies will seek to protect their copyrights and stifle
creativity.
Convenience is double-edged.
Slacktivism and Hacktivism
Slacktivism
• Expressing our views in a status message
• But not willing to act physically and make sacrifices
Abangan!
• Faster innovation through open standards and open source collaboration.
• Change in the way humans think and act: evolution!
• More avenues for participation: use it!
• Improved government services: lead it!