Media in the online age - theories and theorists that you need to know

Dan Gillmor

Review of “We the Media”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/nov/06/highereducation.news

The book:  http://www.authorama.com/we-the-media-1.html

His website:  http://dangillmor.com/

Video explaining citizen journalism (“grassroots journalism”) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLHxyKwsxZ8
Example of how it works in practice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlwMWY5PG8&feature=related

David Buckingham

Is there a digital generation?  http://www.childrenyouthandmedia.org/cscym/attachments/074_Buckingham%20Digi%20Gen2.pdf

Media Vultures: Media Technology and Everyday Creativity  http://www.participations.org/Volume%207/Issue%201/buckingham1.pdf

Henry Jenkins

Convergence:  http://www.phase1.nccr-trade.org/images/stories/jenkins_convergence_optional.pdf

Transmedia (and his site):  http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/03/transmedia_storytelling_101.html

Michael Wesch

Youtube channel:  http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch#p/u/4/09gR6VPVrpw

Information revolution:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM

Clay Shirky

www.shirky.com/weblog

Here Comes everybody:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Everybody

Review:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/mar/22/society1

Video on Youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_0FgRKsqqU

Chris Anderson

The Long Tail:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail

Video of the Long Tail (relating it to film and music):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yku0GTrcuw

John Plunkett
The impact of digital technology on the media since 2006 (podcast)

Media Talk: http://www.theguardian.com/media/audio/2014/may/30/media-talk-final

David Gauntlett

Media Studies 2.0:  http://www.theory.org.uk/mediastudies2.htm

 http://www.newmediastudies.com/intro2000.htm

Video explaining how the media world is changing:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlzu8UYidTY
Videos on media theory  http://www.theory.org.uk/video/
http://davidgauntlett.com/

Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams

Wikinomics:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinomics:_How_Mass_Collaboration_Changes_Everything

http://www.wikinomics.com/book/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/sep/05/digitalmedia

Interview with Tapscott explaining Wikinomics:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjGLsp9a6bg

Charles Leadbeater

‘We Think’ explained with a Youtube video and links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo
http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/home.aspx

Review:  http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/here-comes-everybody-by-clay-shirky-wethink-by-charles-leadbeater-798702.html

Nicholas Carr

What the Internet is doing to our brains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaiyBcvHdV8

Andrew Keen
Digital Vertigo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY2CjqafwQk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAf__0k0l-c

Evgeny Morozov
Does digital technology really provide greater freedom?
http://www.ted.com/talks/evgeny_morozov_is_the_internet_what_orwell_feared

Douglas Rushkoff
Present shock.  When everything happens now.
https://vimeo.com/65904419

Web 2.0 (and Web 1.0)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Web 2.5
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/27258/1/Web_2.5_(LSERO).pdf

Web 3.0
https://lifeboat.com/ex/web.3.0