mediamatters

Douglas Rushkoff

© Johannes Kroemer. Used by permission

mediascape

?What different media do you engage with?

How much time do you spend on entertainment media in a typical week?

torrent

tv

9

19 hours a week

10twelve years

cinema

Film is the most significant and powerful of today’s media.

David Thompson

Online media

youtube

40%

facebook

400 million active users

35 million users update status daily

100 million photos uploaded daily

55

twitter

paradigm shift

remote

personal

telling/selling

connecting

one-way

two-way

large-scale

small-scale

control

freedom

nomadicity

omnivorous freedom

freedom to behold

distraction

distraction from distraction

rootlessness

evanescent

fun

stimulation

feelings

The most important thing about the communications we live among is that . . . they saturate our way of life with a promise of feeling.

Todd GitlinMedia Unlimited (2002)