=What's Newer than New New Media=
Stay up to date with my analysis of new new media developments since the publication of New New Media on September 3, 2009. My new blog series, published on different blogs, What's New Since New Media:
1. September 24, 2009: Amazon, Big Brother, and the Kindle
2. October 6, 2009: FTC Wrong to Regulate Deceitful Bloggers
3. October 18, 2009: Taliban on YouTube: A New Entry in the Dark Side of New New Media
4. November 15, 2009: Academe and the Decline of News Media, The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), 18 academics including me briefly discuss; I see no decline
September 3, 2009: New New Media published by Penguin/Pearson, Allyn & Bacon, in the U.S and Canada ... "international edition" also shipped ... October 10, 2009: Kindle edition published ($20 less expensive than the paper book) ...
In the Media: New New Media in the newspapers:: August 25, 2009 The New York Times article "Love That Tweets" by Lisa Bernhard ... August 19, 2009 Baltimore City Paper article "A Million Conversations" by Joab Jackson ... November 2, 2009 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article "Race puts Atlanta election on national media's radar" by Kristi E. Swartz ... November 10, 2009 Duke Chronicle article "New media, new athletes" by Andy Moore ... on radio:
September 2, 2009, interviewed by Mike McConnell, 700WLW Radio, Cincinnati, listen to podcast here ... September 15, 2009, interviewed on the Kojo Nnamdi NPR show, listen to podcast here ... throughout the day, September 20-21, 2009, segments of a 50-min interview on KNX Radio, Los Angeles ... October 8, 2009, interviewed by Barna Donovan & Ernabel Demillo, Culture Wars, WSPC Radio, Jersey City, listen to podcast here ...Reviews
- by Robert K. Blechman, in Blogcritics:
Levinson’s down-to-earth discussion of the “new new” media is an effective introduction to the impact of cyberspace structures and institutions on our current media environment.
-by Nick Leshi, in Blogcritics:
Levinson writes from his own experience, shares his own anecdotes, and delivers his theories based on his own first-hand evidence in a voice that is equal parts scholarly and conversational.... New New Media is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn about the current configuration of multimedia options.
-by Ken Hudson, in Resonant Interval:
This is the missing textbook to the course that everyone is taking .... an excellent primer for thoughtful engagement with the unfolding culture .... If there is a Luddite on your gift-giving list, New New Media would be an excellent choice.
free Twitter chapter from New New Media!
My continuing series of free 10-minute podcasts about How Does It Feel to Have a Book Published? ... the book in question being New New Media
Book Tour: New New Media First tour dates: September 10, 2009, Neiman Marcus, White Plains, New York ... September 11, 2009, Institute of General Semantics Conference, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, NYC ... September 30, 2009, Penn Bookstore, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia ... details and more signings to follow (see Booktour in right column) ...
Here are some milestones in my writing of this book, in the past year:
May 10, 2008: I'm pleased to announce that I signed a contract with a great company - Penguin/Pearson, Allyn & Bacon - for publication of my next nonfiction book, in 2009: New New Media.
This is my first nonfiction book since Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium was published by Palgrave/St. Martin's in 2004.
New New Media looks at blogging, YouTube, Wikipedia, Digg, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, podcasting, Second Life, iPhones, and other key examples of media in which consumers are producers, and the results are changing all aspects of our lives, from the way we watch television to how we chose our President.
I'll give you more details as I write the book, which I just started doing last week.
***23 February 2009: New New Media completed and sent off to Pearson, Allyn & Bacon. Expected publication date, 1 September 2009. I'll be adding the name Index to this post, and will keep you up to date on the publication progress of the book, and where I'll be talking about it, signing copies, etc once it's published...
****27 April 2009: first look at the cover!
Joan Walsh, Editor-in-Chief of Salon.com, says
Paul Levinson takes you on a walking tour – actually, it's more like a running tour – of the media innovations that are transforming our world. He's not just a scholar, he's an explorer, immersing himself in MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and multiple blogging platforms to help us make sense of the galloping changes in media. Have we entered a glorious new era of media democracy, or are these innovations leveling standards of fairness and authority? Levinson remains an optimist without being blind to the dark side of change. Whether you want to learn to blog, podcast or Twitter yourself, or just keep track of the way such tools are remaking the world around you, the "New New Media" is an indispensable guide.
Jeff Jarvis, Director of New Media Program, City University of New
York's Graduate School of Journalism; Founder, Entertainment Weekly; Creator, BuzzMachine blog, says
Paul Levinson provides an invaluable and encyclopaedic guide to the newest of new media invented so far.
Mignon Fogarty, creator of the award-winning Grammar Girl podcast, and author of the New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing , says
Insightful and comprehensive. The overviews are great for people who want to quickly get up-to-speed on the entire landscape or more experienced Web addicts who want to branch out, and the anecdotes and history will delight people who consider themselves old-timers.
***28 May 2009: Corrected copy-edits of New New Media sent off to publisher!
****24 June 2009: I'm interviewed by John Munson for 40 minutes on Wisconsin Public Radio about new new media in Iran and the world. Listen here.
And here's a taste of the book in the 20-minute interview Mark Molaro did with me on The Alcove, November 2007 ...
Or an audio podcast - An Introduction to New New Media - from 12 June 2009, if you prefer...
The Penguin/Pearson/Allyn & Bacon promotional video for New New Media...
And you can read about most of my other books over here.
8 comments:
Dear Mr. Paul Levinson!
My name is Natalia Yamnickaya, I'm a student of russian State University - High School of Economic (http://www.hse.ru/lingua/en/index.html).
Now I write a diploma on the theme "New Techonologies in mass media. Mobile media in mobile society". I've seen that many essays on this topic refer to your book Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium that was published by Palgrave/St. Martin's in 2004.
Unfortunately in Russia it's unavailable so i decided to turn to you for help. Would you please be so kind as to give me a little interview on the mobile media and it's development and perspectives?
my contacts:
Natalie Yamnickaya
e-mail to: natalia.yam@gmail.com
tel: +7 (926) 528 2742
Thanks for note, Natalie!
Actually, Cellphone will soon be available in Russian translation - from Atticus (at 119991, 4 Donskoy proezd, 15, stroyenie4 - in Moscow). I'm going to check with my agent to see exactly when the translation will be published.
But I'll get back to your email right now - happy to answer some questions from you in email.
If I find out anything from my reference library research session next week, I'll forward it to you for your book. I want to get some information not typically available on the web or to the public. -sue@wordtree.ca
Hello Professor Levinson,
I'm a little behind on your blog, though after reading more I'm really interested in your insights pertaining to new media. In the Alcove interview you comment toward the end that (and I'm paraphrasing of course) raising the alarm on the dangers of new media is somewhat unfounded given the ability we have to simply "turn off the television," etc. True enough, but aren't there some potential consequences of the increasing saturation, mobility, and integration, of these new media? When more and more of our tasks are managed online, and when expectations are raised pertaining to productivity and communicability, isn't it getting increasingly difficult to simply "unplug" or "flip the switch?"
Good to have your comment, John.
My answer to your question, though, is no: we still have libraries, bookstores, newspapers and lots of non-electronic ways to stay informed. The burgeoning of new new media has served to increase, not limit, our choices.
For that matter, we could get our news and entertainment, if we wished, totally via word of mouth and in-person interactions.
As for productivity, just about everything we may do online - such as banking - is available offline as well. We still have physical mail - indeed, more options now, with Fedex and UPS, than just the US Postal Service - if we'd rather not use email.
And professions ranging from medicine to education can work via print media, if doctors and teachers so desire.
Are you the same Levinson I recall from "The Source"? - what was the name of your book you were working on? Super something? - I remember and frequently refer to "co-technologies"
Yes, I was on The Source - I did an "Electure" called "Space: Humanizing the Universe" around 1985 ...
(But there was also a Sherwin Levinson on The Source back then...)
About the right time. I remember something about this levinson developing a book online with user feedback - maybe it was called Supernetworking - but it did introduce me to the term "co-technologies"
I'll see if I can find my notes from that period - I have them somewhere.... got me curious now.
Hugh
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