“Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.” MayBookKidsReadingGamesCan DoAttentionTechnologyMediaTelevisionTvsComputerEntertainmentNew TechnologyReading For KidsComputer GamesElectronic Media Author:Jon Scieszka
“Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.” PeopleWantDesireChoicesCultureSexInfluenceMediaInformationSafeComputerFlowInvestmentConsumersCorporateRangeAcquisitionNuanceConvergence Book:Underworld: Picador Classic Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“We are never without our technology. It surrounds us. It permeates our lives. We have powerful computers in our pockets, and we have been - you know, we are training our children from the youngest age to use social media, so it's something that comes very naturally to us.” KnowsChildrenHas BeensUseAgeSocialPowerfulTechnologyOur LivesMediaComputerTrainingOur ChildrenSocial MediaPocketsSurround Author:Lance Ulanoff
“I think digital media is a valid tool, one that has it's own strengths and weaknesses. So often I see people dismissing digital art as somehow cheating or not as valid or important as traditional art, but the computer is just another tool.” PeopleThinkingArtImportantMediaComputerWeaknessToolsTraditionalDigitalCheatingStrength And WeaknessDigital Media Author:Julie Dillon
“Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment they offer players the opportunity to explore, be creative, learn through interaction and express themselves to others. It is vitally important that we protect and nurture this new art form so that it can reach its full potential. Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them.” PeopleArtImportantPlayFormOpportunityGamesNovelCreativePlayerGenerationsMediaExpressionDevelopmentOffersProtectComputerCriticsEntertainmentVideoArtisticPrimariesInteractionNurtureBe CreativeNurturingThis GenerationFull PotentialArtistic ExpressionNew Media Author:Will Wright
“Computer games are like any other form of media and entertainment - you have to exercise some moderation. In the same way you can invest a lot of time in a computer game, you can invest a lot of time in watching TV or browsing the Web. So it's an issue of recognizing that this is something you should consume in moderation.” WayShouldFormGamesIssuesMediaTvsExerciseComputerEntertainmentModerationRecognizingWatching TvComputer GamesBrowsing Author:Frank Pearce
“I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I'm not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad.” FeelsTryingSocialMediaComputerPagesPhonesSocial MediaFeel BetterLiving My LifeIpads Author:Jane Levy
“3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.” WayChoicesMediaInformationComputerNavigationOrganizing Things Author:Bill Gates
“I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the same words that the prosecution had used in the penalty phase: that he [Todd Willingham] was a monster. And that got me to get on to the computer and connect with some of the media and say: "I have his letters. He wasn't a monster. He was a caring individual." Let them see another side.” UsedIndividualSidesSawsMediaQuietComputerLettersCaringMonstersRepeatsGovernorsPhasesPenaltiesProsecution Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.” WayTodayKnownMediaTelevisionComputerDigitalZeroPublishingTradingAnticipateIntersectionsSwitchingConvergence Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of that sort. So, I'm an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking.” IfsThinkingStillsBookMomentsLeftCreativePiecesMediaPaperComputerRegardExpertsBe CreativeOld FashionedLeft AloneNew MediaPowerpointWorking All The Time Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“Time is of the essence, particularly if we're sending images out on social media. The reality is that the majority of images are only viewed for a few seconds, often on a phone or computer. There are so many images freely available that it takes a lot of will power to concentrate and prolong the gaze on one picture at the expense of the thousands of others waiting to be viewed!” IfsRealitySocialWaitingMediaComputerEssenceMajorityPhonesAvailableSocial MediaExpensesSecondsWill Power Author:Michael Kenna
“One of the things that always drives any practitioner of journalism crazy is you'll run it people who say why doesn't the media cover this or that? Well of course the media covered it. Why didn't you read about it? And, you know, it's, you know, there you are, it's not the journalist's job to knock down your door, you know, punch the URL into your computer and force you to stop watching the Kardashians and to read, you know, a report on integrity in government instead, it's your job.” PeopleKnowsWellsGovernmentRunningJobsCoursesForceDoorsCrazyMediaIntegrityComputerJournalismJournalistReportsCovered Author:David Frum
“I think that one of the challenges for a parent and myself as a parent is that we live in a very electronic media age. That's obvious to everyone. And I'm not opposed to time on computers or time with television or time with any other electronic media but I think that quiet, thoughtful interaction between one's self, your mind and words is an irreplacable thing.” ThinkingMindSelfAgeParentChallengesMediaTelevisionQuietComputerObviousThoughtfulInteractionElectronic Media Author:Josh Prince