New Media, the Singularity, and You

How does accelerating technology, and the internet make media studies and journalism so very different from the previous century?

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1. New Media, the Singularity, and You @TonyCecala Tuesday, October 1, 13
2. The core message of this lecture is that the world is changing quickly. Tuesday, October 1, 13
3. Some believe that the acceleration will reach a point when average humans will not be able to manage. Tuesday, October 1, 13
4. Humans will need to evolve. To use technology to adapt to the accelerating pace of change. Tuesday, October 1, 13
5. Futurists call this explosion of information the Singularity. Tuesday, October 1, 13
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7. As we augment our senses with technology… Tuesday, October 1, 13
8. …what is the line between man and machine? Tuesday, October 1, 13
9. SCIENCE By Original idea by brian0918 and ClockworkSoul Original remastering by Antonu [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons Tuesday, October 1, 13
10. SCIENCE • PRE-INTERNET Printed publications: Science, Nature, the Journal of Cognitive Science for example. Each of these were printed and distributed by mail to other scientists. • POST-INTERNET Email and Wikis and Forums let scientists, technologists, and activists, share ideas at the speed of light. Tuesday, October 1, 13
11. TRADING • PRE-INTERNET Stock trading was done on the trading floor by men with hand signals. • POST-INTERNET Trading takes place at the speed of light with computer algorithms that adapt to changes in the trading prices and make trades more quickly than any human mind can imagine. By Thomas J. O'Halloran, photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Tuesday, October 1, 13
12. NEW MEDIA Tuesday, October 1, 13
13. NEW MEDIA New media is both a cause of and a result of the Law of Accelerating returns. Human knowledge is shared more easily, and more quickly thanks to new media. Tuesday, October 1, 13
14. NEW MEDIA If knowledge and complexity is doubling every 18 months, ...then we have a problem as students, professionals, and knowledge workers. Just how do we keep up? And how did we get into this mess? Tuesday, October 1, 13
15. JOURNALISM If journalism is the reporting of “what is happening elsewhere.” What happens when people with cameras are everywhere? No single noteworthy event goes unreported. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorylam/3200086900/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plane_crash_into_Hudson_River_%28crop%29.jpg Tuesday, October 1, 13
16. JOURNALISM How do you define a journalist? The US Government wants to define “journalists” for the purpose of shield laws. Laura Poitras / Praxis Films [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_laws_in_the_United_States Tuesday, October 1, 13
17. WHO ARE YOU? Tuesday, October 1, 13