Media in the Digital Age

transformation of media in the digital age involves at least twelve dimensions, which I discuss in sequence in this book:

but wireless and mobile media, digital television and satellite radio, digital cameras, digital music players, and other new or emerging technologies for mediated public communication. For the purposes of this book, I define digital media as the systems of public communication, the systems of content production and distribution, and the computer and networked-based technologies that support and shape them.

highly fragmented and active media audience, intense media competition, and scarce advertising dollars

Without credibility, the news has little or no value, in either a democratic or a commercial sense

virtual newsroom. It is a newsroom without walls. It can be established in nearly any community using high-speed wireless Internet access and mobile media

Situated Documentary that I and my colleague Steve Feiner, computer science professor at Columbia University, developed.14

Picard notes that in 2006 not a single major U.S. media organization was a sponsor of the pioneering MIT Media Lab; it has taken Google, the Internet giant, and Bertelsmann AG, the German media giant, to lead the way (see the Media Lab sponsor list online).10

its 2005 “state of the news media” report, the project noted that “creativity in new technology appeared to be coming mostly from non-news organizations like Google.” Online

media organizations, in particular news organizations, have typically had very small budgets for research and development, often less than one percent of their overall operating budget. Many industries devote a considerably higher percentage of their operating budget to research

fact, a group of New York newspaper publishers formed the Associated Press (AP) largely in order to make use of the expensive technology more economical.5