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Uber-chic citizens of the Capitol, now is truly the time to #lookyourbest!
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LinkedIn is the social network of choice for hooking up with people and companies professionally; in fact, one survey found that 86% of companies that use social networks to recruit talent do so with LinkedIn.
In this Sunday’s Observer, I mention five projects that exemplify the ways the Web is used to tell stories. There are many, many more.
Here are the links to the projects I list i the paper, plus some of the ones that were sent to me via email (aleks.krotoski.freelance@guardian.co.uk) or twitter during the research period.
In the good ol’ days before Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, business success largely came down to creating a successful brand and promoting it far and wide. The more people knew about your brand, the more money you were likely making.
Today, in a changed world of e-commerce, social media, a…
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(an oldie but a goodie from back in the day …)
As we race toward the finish in the vision quest that is the inaugural season of the iMedia master’s program, it’s all about discussion, looking toward the future and trying to figure out where we fit in in this crazy mixed-up media world of ours.
A recent presentation/discussion centered on the growing trend of entertainment as news. Increasingly, news on celebrity scandal, reality television results, pop culture and the entertainment industry as a whole is taking up residence right along side news about wars, the economy and government.
The points raised are many, perhaps too many to mention here (but I’ll give it a whirl):
Soft entertainment news actually isn’t totally bad as we discussed. Despite it:
it also works to:
so it’s not all doom and gloom.
So I got to thinking about where I have seen this in my day-to-day and if I have been affected by entertainment encroaching on to hard news’ turf. I have to admit it likely has to some degree – I mean, look at the title of this post, which is a nod to Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report.
But then I thought of another example. Given that my primary area of research and focus has been where sports, sports networks, sports coverage and interactive media collide, I thought of a new show that debuted on SPEED Channel this year. SPEED Channel, a network devoted to coverage of motorsports and disseminating news about said motorsports, started airing a show called “Fast Track to Fame.” Originating from the track where NASCAR is racing that particular weekend, fans participate in a talent competition. It’s American Idol meets America’s Got Talent meets stock car racing. One could make the argument that such a program really has no place on the schedule of a motorsports network. The only tie to the actual sport is the location of the show each week – the track. You could also argue that SPEED is only following the trend of standard network television, shifting toward reality programming that is cheaper to produce and popular with the viewers.
Is it OK that such a program airs on such a network? Has the move toward entertainment clouded our perceptions of what is important, valuable and newsworthy? Are we, as Postman said, amusing ourselves to death?
Just some things to keep in mind.
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