Phylis Johnson Livres

Exploring the future of journalism, this book examines how technological advancements and shifting demographics will reshape news consumption over the next few decades. By integrating insights from leading tech firms and science fiction writers, it presents a multifaceted view of journalism's evolution, including the challenges and opportunities for media producers. Key themes include audience engagement, the role of identity and community, and the influence of emerging technologies like robotics and immersive journalism. It serves as a vital resource for a diverse audience, from journalists to educators.

This book examines the convergence of media in the largest residential virtual community to date in the gaming world: Second Life. This user content-driven platform has brought media makers and audiences together in interactive environments where news, entertainment, and art have become programming for virtual media networks with implications for traditional mainstream programming and distribution. New media moguls are emerging from Second Life and expanding to the larger Metaverse. This book explores media's role in reporting and reflecting the social, political, and economic issues within Second Life and beyond, and includes more than a dozen interviews of active Second Life residents.

Moving Sounds explores the unique animating symbiosis that develops whenever previously unrelated technologies become intertwined and form a mutually invigorating relationship. When "car" and "radio" became permanently inculcated, it changed how both cars and radio were designed and experienced. Moving Sounds is the first book-length study exploring the relationship between the car and the radio. While much scholarship has been devoted to the general history of radio, radio’s unique relationship with the open road has been largely overlooked. The nascent interconnectivity between the early car and radio developers, and what they did to help each other, is another aspect of cultural history that is explored in Moving Sounds .