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I have a new post up at MediaShift today on the innovations in sensors for mobile devices and what they might mean for the future of digital magazines. I thought “sensor publishing” was a particularly fascinating concept: Users of sensor-equipped
My article “‘We Need a Showing of All Hands’: Technological Utopianism in Make Magazine” will be published next month in the Journal of Communication Inquiry, and is already available to those with access through the Sage website. If you’d like
It’s quiet around here lately. I’ve been wrapping up the spring semester and preparing for a big move to a new job at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, next year. But in the meantime, here’s my latest post at MediaShift,
I have a new story up at PBS MediaShift on kids’ magazines making the move to the iPad — or, in some cases, growing up solely for the iPad. My favorite aspect of this piece is what I learned about
I recently went to Ottawa for a conference, and managed to hit a couple of newsstands while I was there. I came home with a carry-on bag heavy with magazines new to me, thrilled to find something distinctive and different
So I decided I might like to get a subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek. It’s a magazine that’s popped up on my radar a few times lately, both for some interesting longer stories and for its innovative design. I explored my
I have a new post up at MediaShift on the various ways magazines and others are experimenting with selling individual stories online: If magazine publishers can identify stories that provide rich, deep reading experiences, and then add engaging multimedia to
I’m working on a new research project, and while reading up on previous research, I’ve come across some studies of how social movements construct narratives in various media for their participants. Understanding themselves as part of a movement’s past/present/future stories
I was reminiscing recently about a project I started in 1992, the summer before I started high school. I had been getting interested in writing, specifically freelance magazine writing, and started acquiring Writer’s Market books, a Writer’s Digest subscription and
So I saw this interesting little graphic over at the Association of Magazine Media (formerly the MPA) E-Reading blog, and it brought only one thing to mind: Hmmm… [A more substantial post next week, I promise!]