Is Television Over?

March 18th, 2008 by Maggie · 2 Comments

A feature in The Times on Sunday wants to know: Is television over? They point to the “television experience” that has fundementally changed since the TV boom in the 1980s. TiVo and other video on demand services – be they big networks like Hulu or niche vlogs – mean that audiences are [...]

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Music as a Social Experience

March 12th, 2008 by Maggie · 1 Comment

Well, I thought it’s time to introduce myself on the RMM blog, so I just want to give everyone a big American hug (we do that there) and say thanks for having me on such a fantastic team. I’m a sophomore at NYU studying “Media, Culture, and Communication” and French and I’m studying here [...]

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KUDOS: Road testing a social media acronym

February 19th, 2008 by Leo Ryan · 12 Comments

At last night’s chinwag I road tested a bit of thinking we’ve been doing in the form of a snappy acronym; KUDOS.
Essentially it’s a framework that we’ve been using to understand how social media activities work, don’t work and should work. Quite simply it is a set of qualities that we look for in a [...]

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