Bagdikian, B. H. (1983). The media monopoly. Boston: Beacon Press. Lo, O. W.-Y., & Leung, L. (2009). Effects of gratification-opportunities and gratifications-obtained on preferences of instant messaging and e-mail among college students. Telematics and Informatics. 26 (2), 156. In Wai-Yu Lo and Louis Leung’s article “Telematics and Informatics”, they use [...]
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Reflection #4 on “Telematics and Informatics” and “The Media Monopoly”
Posted in COM 546, COM546 REFLECTIONS on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
REFLECTION #3 ON “THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS”
Posted in COM 546, COM546 REFLECTIONS on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hardin Garrett. The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 13 December 1968. In his 1968 article, Garrett Hardin argues that the only way we can preserve and nurture other and more precious freedoms is by relinquishing the freedom to breed. He points out that there are a class of human problems which can be [...]
Reflection on Presentation
Posted in COM 546, COM546 REFLECTIONS on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Frankly speaking, I am not a good speaker. I hope that my audience has not been tortured through my speaking. There were some faults that I realized after my presentation. First, there was a deficiency in the whole organization. I didn’t finish my speech when the time was up although I had skipped some [...]
Questions #3
Posted in COM 546, COM 546 QUESTIONS on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1. Why radios’ real potential is as a mass medium rather than communicating between two points? 2. “……more new forms of communication media have emerged in the past two centuries than in the whole of prior human history.” Sociologist James Beniger’s hypothesis is that the information society developed as a result of a crisis [...]
Discussion group presentation on Principles of New Media
Posted in COM 546, DISCUSSION GROUP PRESENTATION on February 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
c. (2002). The language of new media. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Lev Manovich Manovich points out five principles of new media, as well as summarizes some of the key differences between old and new media in his article. Through the two basic principles: Numerical Representation and Modularity, he deduces the other three principles which are: [...]
Questions #2
Posted in COM 546, COM 546 QUESTIONS on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1.How to cultivate the ability to capitalize on disruptive opportunities since Intel had a victory in this case? What experience and lesson can be drew from it? 2.What are the steps and routes that a disruptive innovation like semiconductor grow from niche markets to the establishment of an industrial kingdom? 3.“Everyone always hopes for the [...]
Book review: The Victorian Internet
Posted in COM 546, COM546 BOOK REVIEW on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Citations: Bower, J. L., & Christensen, C. M. (1995). Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave. HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW. 73 (1), 43. Rogers, Everett M., (1995) Diffusion of Innovation, Fourth Edition, The Free Press, New York. Standage, T. (1998). The Victorian internet. New York, NY: Berkley Books. I like this book. Through series of engrossing stories, [...]
Reflection#2 on Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
Posted in COM 546, COM546 REFLECTIONS on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In Bower and Christensen’s viewpoint, the main reason why companies like to invest aggressively and successfully in the technologies necessary to retain their current customers but then fail to make certain other technological investments that customers of the future will demand is they stay too close to their customers. Strengths and weaknesses can [...]
Final project proposal
Posted in COM 546, PROJECT IDEA on January 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The growth of Informal learning under the digital environment THESIS: The development of communication technology has great influence on the definition of learning. From once-only education to Lifelong learning; fixed curriculum to flexible open curriculum; institutional focus to learner focus; Local focus to global networking.Le Grew argues that “the new technological environment opens access to [...]
QUESTION#1(SEEING WHAT’S NEXT)
Posted in COM 546, COM 546 QUESTIONS on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
1 How about if firms don’t choose to flight but choose to fight at the very beginning of any disruptive attacks? Thus, what the fate of entrants will be? 2 How to help the government to separate out true signals that a market isn’t functioning optimally from noise that might suggest that the malfunctioning market has [...]
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