Items tagged with "social media"

NAMAC members weigh in on the best and worst of 2009: from work ethic to public media, web 2.0 projects to local organizing efforts. 

Hear from Julia Kirt of the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition on the 10 Worst Artist Excuses for Turning Proposals or Artwork in Late, read up on the top 10 download folder items that Belinda Rawlins of the Transmission Project keeps coming back to, and check out Patty Zimmerman's list of the best international multi-platform Web 2.0 projects of 2009.  

There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models. As a nerd, I'm excited by the new tech, particularly mobile, including new display systems and pervasive connectivity.

However, the tech is secondary, not nearly as important as repairing some current issues with trust and curation.

As a news media guy, I'm an amateur, relying on large part on people who really know the business. Frequent engagement in social media helps, and most importantly, 14 years in online customer service gives me a good feel for the ground truth and attitude online.

How do art house cinemas survive in the 21st century with a business model that appears to be quixotic at best and suicidal at worst?

Transmedia storytelling, a concept identified by Henry Jenkins, is storytelling by a number of decentralized authors who share assets and create content for distribution across multiple forms of media.

A report from this conference that discussed strategies of change and survival in our ever shifting media landscape.

NAMAC connects you to people, events and knowledge in the media arts field. Here's 5 quick ways you can supercharge your online networking using NAMAC's network on our website as well as other social networks.

In our new “digital ecology,” it seems we are all producers. Our capacity to create and feed information, content, images, and identities from and to one another is now an experience and extension of the body so ubiquitous that not to do it can leave you feeling hungry and alone. A blank screen is like an empty stomach: no feeds (RSS), no tubes (YOU), no culture.

I recently relocated from rural Pennsylvania to San Francisco, taking on the exciting role of executive director at San Francisco Cinematheque. Obviously, this is a huge geographical change, but it is also a return, as I was involved with the Bay Area media arts community from 1974 until 1990. The renewal of my presence here has provoked many thoughts for me about changes in this community. A recent Meredith Monk performance shifted my thinking about change to the concept of “impermanence,” which conjures images of flow, movement, and transition as the way of life.

In 2004, a group of San Francisco media organizations partnered with Global Business Networks to conduct a scenario planning process about the future of the field of independent media. Read the summary of findings.