Will viewers more actively select for the content of their media environment, as hyper-convergence moves forward and the news of the world at large is enmeshed in a spreading web of personal information? Will impartial news programming or even generalized mainstream media content disappear from the viewer’s localized media environment? Do new…[Read more]

Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term that refers to means by which publishers of digital media restrict the open proliferation of their media products (music files, ebooks, online video) in order to protect copyright holders and ensure that piracy doesn’t undermine the income creative people can derive from their work. It is an [...]

A common mystery for web designers and online publication editors is what drives interest in a given topic and what searches will most likely drive traffic to their specific pages. It turns out, in many cases, that the most popular searches on any given day are often what is being talked about in the mainstream [...]

Any communicative medium allows us to deliver cognitive information into a shared space of consciousness, and ideally, to deliver much of our “known” reality to another mind. Media shape information, decide how it can be delivered, and, how we receive and interpret it. “Cognitive science has revealed a human brain notable for its plasticity. It [...]

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is now looking at ways to use legislation that grants the power to regulate traditional phone networks in order to establish a regulatory paradigm of ‘net neutrality’, meaning internet service providers (ISP) who provide connectivity cannot block or slow traffic to some sites while…[Read more]