Obtaining a critical mass of followers on social media is how one influences thought, generates income, and mobilizes action. Generating mass followers is the goal of business, policy leaders, social entrepreneurs and, unfortunately, subversive actors. The New York times article The Follower Factory, published on line on January, 27th 2018, described the methodology for achieving […]
When it comes to streaming-shows through on-demand media platforms such as Netflix and watching live broadcast TV, content and culture matter since the type of content that a platform/medium provides and how it provides it, ultimately affects culture. New trends in viewing media content have emerged among on-demand streaming services such as […]
Wearable technology is a thing of the future, and the future is here. The first Bluetooth device was sold in 2000 and from there, wearable technology took off. The Go Pro broke out in 2004, Google Glass took off in 2013, and over the next few years we will see a variety of devices emerge […]
Does content and culture matter? This is a very relevant question considering the speed at which new media technologies are emerging. Is it the form of the media that gets us or does the content and cultural adaptations make us who we are? Gentzkow (2006) argued that television is generally “bad” from the perspective […]
Recent years, TV media has been an essential political weapon in the west, and the media has penetrated into every aspect of social life in the information age (Patiz, 2015). There is no doubt that the modern American political life is fully penetrated by the media, and the role of TV media in the presidential […]
Digital, as a word, seems to be ubiquitous in today’s life. From the media entertainment such as movies and music to the promotion of political campaign, we people can access to all these things through “bits” at anytime and anywhere (Negroponte, 1995). Admittedly, with the development of digital media, it’s more convenient for people to […]
Love It or Loathe It: Content and Culture are Changing Behavior of Media Consumption Diverse content and pluralistic culture come into being with a changeable media landscape, impacting realm of media distribution and consumption to some extent. Content and culture do matter because they can predict identities, values, and behaviors of users, directly influencing media […]
Social Media Use of News and Individual’s Political Participation Huxley visions that people will come to love the technologies that make their life much convenient and at the same time, make the access to information much easier than before. In other words, people tend to adore the technologies that require them to think less. However, […]
Twitch.tv has been in the spotlight and front line of live streaming services ever since it first came out in 2011, as a video game focused spin off of the original multi-purpose live streaming service Justin.tv. Based on its enormous growth in business size, the mother company, Justin.tv, actually closed the original Justin.tv website in […]
Virtual Reality may be one of the most popular topics among news report in recent years. In fact, early in seven years ago, the concept of immersive journalism was already proposed by VR pioneer Nonny de la Peña from University of Southern California. According to her study, the fundamental idea of immersive journalism is to […]