Social Change

How much is new media changing things? A lot, according to this article. …With the exception of magazine publishers, publishers or broadcasters back then (the ’60s) would have said entry barriers were too high for new competition. Assembling a staff and purchasing typesetting equipment, a press, and delivery trucks, or a transmitter and broadcast license, were too expensive. Only wealthy ...

Baseball reverses course on Spider-Man ads Wow. Talk about Mass-Marketing gone to far. Did anyone else hear about the outcry about this. Apparently the NY Yankess were going to have ads on the actual bases during a televised game for the upcoming Movie Spider-man. Luckily the public caught wind of this and cried foul. Sorry for that pun. Anyway if ...

A Fantasy That’s Never Final Online Communites are growing more and more. Check this article out to see exactly how videogame worlds sink up. Does real life imitate the video game world? This is the first time ever that PC gamers can now play online with Console gamers. How will the change affect the diverse population that already meets online. ...