Younger adults prefer to get their news in text, not video, according to new data from Pew Research Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton Digital publishers may be pouring time and energy into cranking up their video operations, but for a lot of their potential viewers, text is still the way to go. New data from … Read more
The value of the witness: How the London attacks changed the news Mashable! by Colin Daileda The night after the deadliest peace-time attack on London, the BBC led its 6 p.m. newscast with a shaky video of screaming commuters, an ambulance siren howling in the background Twitter’s new article preview cards could be a boost for publishers … Read more
Last week I heard the news that Sony quits selling e-readers. I have been using a Sony reader for more than 6 years now. I have also used Nook for 2 years and tried Kindle. Sony’s is not the best design, and it does not have some juicy accessories but none other brands can challenge it. I suspect because … Read more
The Tenure System Is Broken This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps Three in ten adults read an e-book last year; half own a tablet or e-reader E-Books Aren’t Going to Make Print Obsolete Anytime Soon For all the talk about print books being replaced by digital books, … Read more
New Archive Makes Available 800,000 Pages Documenting the History of Film, Television & Radio Click images for larger versions Film buffs and scholars have a new cache at their fingertips. The Media History Digital Library has made hundreds of thousands of pages of film and broadcasting history available in a searchable digital archive they?ve called … Read more
LA County Museum Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free Download from Open Culture by Kate Rix Here is the link: http://collections.lacma.org/ Harvard Secretly Searched Campus Emails in Internal Investigation from Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Coursera’s Contractual Elitism If you wonder why your university hasn?t linked up with Coursera, the massively popular provider … Read more