1. What is "endism"?
Endism is the theory that sees new technologies as replacing older ones. eg. When CD-Rom arrived, people predicted the demise of the printed book.
TV (end of) Radio and Movies.
TV News (end of) Newspapers
2. What is a "media ecosystem"?
Where organisms such as broadcast and narrowcast tv, movies, radio etc. interact with one another make up the media ecosystem.
3. What is "narrowcast TV"?
Specialist content is aimed at subscription-based audiences and distributed via digital channels so that it specialises in one specific content to appeal to a particular type of audience, eg. a channel dedicated to sport (Sky Sports 1)
4. Differences between the internet and the web...
The web and interent aren't synonomous. The web is enormous but it is only one kind of traffic that runs on the internet's tracks and signalling. Alreaidy it's being overtaken by other traffic, eg. peer-to-peer networking traffic.
5a. What is "push medium"?
A select band of producers (broadcasters) decide what content is to be created, create it and then push it down analogue or digital channels at audiences which are assumed to consist of essentially passive recipients, eg. Broadcast TV.
5b. What is "pull medium"?
Nothing comes to you, choose it and click on it to pull it down on to your computer. You are in complete control and in charge, eg. the Web.
6. Positive aspects of blogging...
New blogs are being created at a rate of about one per second. Blogging allows people to let their point of view and creativity be known to the world and share experiences or feelings with others. It allows people to make judgments about any topic and is a way in which people can take thier creativity and inject it into something worthwhile.
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