Montage created with IMJ of Three Colors: Red, the final film in the Three Colors Trilogy by director Krzysztof Kieslowski. The film stars Irène Jacob as Valentine, a Swiss model who meets a retired judge when she accidentally hits his dog with her car. ...
Klara Prowisor, now 92 and living in Tel Aviv, escaped the gas chamber at Auschwitz by leaving her sick father behind as she jumped from a train in Belgium. Two decades later, she received a message from him. This 13-minute story is haunting and incredi ...
In our podcast we explore the new media phenomenon that has quickly become a legitimate industry. This is Vlogging. We look at vlogger Casey Neistat who has amassed such a following since his beginning his daily vlog series and what makes him so popular and unique. We also look at some barriers to entry in the current vlogging industry and how Casey specifically has been able to overcome these new obstacles. Lastly, we establish the history behind daily vlogs and how our obsession with other people’s lives paved the way for vloggers today. The New Media concepts that are specifically highlighted are these barriers to entry as well as the spreadibility of media as vlogging provides a wide platform for information. We hope you enjoy the show.
Betches is a multimodal new media brand that has become very popular among millennial women. In our podcast we analyze the ways in which Betches uses the principles of new media to enhance its experience and why Betches would not work in an old media world. We chose to focus on the key terms narrowcasting and stickiness, as described by Jenkins and Creeber, and how Betches uses these new media techniques.
I use the terms "affordances" and "constraints" fairly frequently, and I think they will be very useful terms for you to consider when you're working on your podcast episodes, so I want to give you at least a basic sense of how these terms work. Affordan ...
Some terms & phrases that I've pulled from our readings this semester, which you might want to consider as you build your episodes. Creeber Modernism (old media) industrial economy Mass media broadcasting "national" structurali ...
I was talking yesterday with a podcast group thinking about vlogging. One subject that came up, but that might not make its way into their episode is the impact of Facebook Live and Instagram Stories trying to poach YouTube's hold on vlogging. Given ...
In this episode, we analyze BuzzFeed as a New Media publication. We discuss BuzzFeed’s user experience with our personal experiences. With the materials published on BuzzFeed and the articles we have collected, we analyze whether BuzzFeed could be viewed as a real high-quality journalism standard, how BuzzFeed, as a form of New Media, differentiates itself from Old media, and where BuzzFeed would take us to in the future. Hope you enjoy this!
This week's episode of Media Nouveau takes a look at My Favorite Murder, a comedic true-crime podcast hosted by two women who think there's nothing more interesting than a good murder. In this episode, we will be examining how the genre of true crime ha ...
Oscar Wilde once wrote that “Each man kills the thing he loves”. I don’t know exactly what Wilde meant by that, but our collective attention and obsession, amplified by the speed and intensity of the internet & social media, tends to ruin the things we lo ...
