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... More
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”... More
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... More
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
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... More