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We've entered into a new year, the channels have been flooded with list upon list of 2010 predictions and trends, and now we're laying the foundations for how we'd like to characterize the times - David Houle is calling it the Transformation Decade, a tweet from @RitaJKing mentioned The Imagination Age, and Seth Godin rang in the new year with a post titled  Read More »

Anyone who has taken CCT 505 can tell you a little bit about media convergence, the topic of Henry Jenkins’ book, Convergence Culture. In the book, Jenkins’ notes: “…once a medium establishes itself as satisfying some core human demand, it continues to function within the larger system of communication options…Printed words did not kill spoken words. Cinema did not kill theater. Television did not kill radio.  Read More »

Is Google Voice a true telecom service to be held accountable by FCC guidelines?  AT&T seems to think so.  At the end of September, AT&T sent the FCC a complaint as to Google’s tendency to block certain rural areas from coverage, breaking from FCC policy.  Should web applications and services that are continuously blurring the lines between phone and internet service be under the jurisdiction of the FCC?  The back and forth debate intensifies this week….

Here's the story, the response, and the blogosphere's analysis:
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From technophiles to technophobes, the internet was abuzz this week about a Time Magazine report, claiming that women constitute a paltry 13% of Wikipedia editors, while 87% are men.

So much for the Internet being a great equalizer?  Bloggers, scholars, and journalists weigh in on the implications:

Feministing:  Read More »

What happens when you combine a disgruntled consumer, a recording device, and a distribution platform? A PR mess and a crack at social justice!

There have been forums online for years now that have acted as sounding boards for customers and employees who felt they’ve been wronged by a corporate monolith (think walmartsucks.org, verizonpathetic.com, allstateinsurancesucks.com), but we seem to be entering the era of video complaints now.  Read More »