Blogging and the magazine industry
Seventeen magazine has their fashion and lifestyle bogs accessible at your fingertips with their iPad and iPhone app.
Is blogging the new magazine industry? Websites such as blog.com, weebly, WordPress and tumblr are made so anyone can create their own blog. Many magazines have created blogs in order to connect more with their audiences. Seventeen magazine has multiple fashion and lifestyle blogs. They have created these to hold onto their younger audience. The New York Magazine had a post on blogs stating that blogs have blown up and have reworked the magazine industry.
Why does it interest me you ask? I have found that I use blogs more than I thought. From fashion ideas to organizational tips blogs are a quick and easy way to discover new innovative information!
Check out the NYMag’s article and Seventeen’s fashion blog below!
Seventeen Magazine Fashion Blog
Questions:
1. Do you find yourself looking at blogs instead of magazines?
2. Would it matter to you if magazines were no longer around?
E-zine
What is e-zine? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_magazine
E-zine articles http://ezinearticles.com/
Nowadays e-zine is getting more and more popular because of its portability and transferability. Many online magazines now carry blogs, original video and audio podcasts, social networks, games, virtual fitting rooms, and other interactive components that could never work in print. A large number of readers start to use e-zine instead of printed magazines. Some e-zine publishers saw e-zine as an opportunity to reach an audience electronically and more economically than was possible with print medium. At the same time, they focus on this great chance to make profits. They need to take many factors into consideration such as professional design and flexible functionality. So how to make money from e-zine?
http://www.startupinternetmarketing.com/ezines/7ways.html
Discussion:
- Which one do you prefer, printed magazine or e-zine?
- Which form do you think is more profitable?
Are Newspapers Dying?
Nowadays, the readership declines happen in both America and China. That’s mostly due to the rise of high-tech devices. People prefer reading news on their portable equipment to papery newspapers because the portable equipment is smaller and contains more information.
“Newspapers may eventually become news “sites” or “iNews” products.” Said a journalist.
However, different people have different opinions about the question– Are newspapers dying?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihZRKtlejJs
Discussion Questions:
1. Do you agree with the opinion that newspapers are dying? Why?
2. What other methods can people know news expect newspaper?
Art Prize 2014- Grand Rapids, MI
Hey all. There is one of the biggest art festivals going on back in my home town at this time. There are over 450,000 people that go every year. The pieces are not usually art pieces that people would consider “boring” or “normal.” This piece is what we talked about during class with the “homemade” camera using sheets and the natural light. I thought of our discussion. There are so many unique pieces at art prize, from things in the past being things such as house size loch-ness monsters and house sized table and chairs on the bridge downtown. Check out the Art Prize pieces on their website: http://www.artprize.org/entries.
Webzines: The Magazine of the Future
The question being asked these days is how to sustain a paper-backed medium in a paperless world? The answer is the web. Since the creation of the world wide web, items from dictionaries to school books to magazines have been trying to keep up. In this discussion we will discuss more of the Webzine and more specifically how it relates to journalism.
There are many examples of a webzine when it comes to journalism, but one of my favorite sites is called Vice. Vice has written articles to videos, a great example of the versatility of this webzine is their influence on the problem with ISIS. Vice is the first journalistic outlet that has placed a reporter into the heart of ISIS allowing an insiders look of the inner workings of the terrorist organization ISIS.
When life moves quicker than paper can keep up, we have to change how we gain our knowledge. These webzines are what keep us informed from multiple angles and they are gaining more monetary funds due to the fact that they don’t require an entire printing press. Vice is just an example of how the internet does it right by keeping their readers informed from the war on drugs to the war against Ebola. I believe that this is the future of our generation in educating ourselves about our world.
Here are some different and interesting websites you can check out.
Some things to consider:
1. Do you find you trust an internet source more than a physical source? (e.g. Newspaper)
2. Do you have any Webzine you visit daily to keep up?
3. Have you ever considered adding your insight on these sights? (e.g. Becoming a contributor or a commenter?)
4. Are there any negatives to having journalism on the web?
Bill cosby show
Things people didn’t know about the cosby show
One of the first African American shows to be aired that displaced blacks in way other than maids and servants.
According to Anthony Crenshaw, Ever since television’s beginning in 1939, Blacks have often been portrayed as custodians, maids, servants, clowns, or buffoons.
He states that, The idea of The Cosby Show which was rejected by ABC, because they felt that America was not ready to accept the concept of an intact, black middle-class family, was picked up by a cautious NBC that ordered only six episodes of a show about a Black family whose parents were a doctor and a lawyer. This soon changed, as the first episode of The Cosby Show outdistanced every regular show on television. The stunning showing sent shock waves through the industry. It proved it was no fluke by holding on to the No. 1 position in the Nielsen ratings for the remaining five episodes (Johnson, 59). The Cosby Show remained the #1 rated television show weekly, and catapulted NBC past CBS and ABC in the weekly television ratings wars, earned the title of “King of the Sitcoms”, held the biggest audience in television, won an Emmy Award for best comedy series, and a Peoples Choice Award all after its first year, and most importantly of all, The Cosby Show altered the perception of Blacks on television and doors were opened for the black television shows that followed. ( Anthony Crenshaw)
Hollywood Films’ domination of the film business all over the world
by Yutong Wu
The Hollywood films are becoming more and more influential all over the world now. It has dominated the film market in many foreign countries, which might challenges the development of foreign films. Many Hollywood films can be seen in foreign countries but only a few foreign films can be seen in America. Below are Top5 box office of China and Japan in 2014 and 2013:
Top 5 films in China in 2014
1 Transformers: Age of Extinction (US) $222.7m (£130m)
2 The Monkey King (China) $178m
3 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (US) $127m
4 X-Men: Days of Future Past (US) $115m
5 Dad! Where are We Going? (China) $104m
Top 5 films in Japan in 2013
1 The Wind Rises 12 billion yen US$120 million
2 Monsters University 8.96 billion yen US$90 million
3 One Piece Film Z 6.85 billion yen US$69 million
4 Les Misérables 5.93 billion yen US$59 million
5 Ted 4.20 billion yen US$42 million
At the same time, Hollywood filmmakers are trying to win over foreign audiences by embedded foreign elements. For example, the bestseller Transformers 4 is set to be filmed in China and intends to star a number of Chinese cast members. To enter the Chinese market and to score higher on box office sales, some even produce two different versions tailored for the foreign and Chinese markets.
Discussion: What is your opinion about the trend that Hollywood films overwhelm the world film market?
Do you think film diversity is important?
links:
http://deadline.com/2014/09/u-s-china-film-and-television-industry-expo-ryan-kavanaugh-834786/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/hollywood-zooms-in-on-china-film-market
Broadcast and Cable TV: Third and Fourth Screens (TV Goes Ex-Stream)
One percent of Americans in the 1948’s had a television set, The ratings grew 50 percent in 1953, then by the time 1960 came along, over 90 percent had a TV. The growth of TV created worry for authors of books, magazines, and radio broadcasters that they would become irrelevant and pointless. Eventually both radio broadcasters and authors found a way to get involved. There has been three historical developments to help shape TV for the future.
1. Technological innovation and patents wars
2. Wresting control of content away from advertisers
3. Sociocultural impact of the infamous quiz-show scandals
The Internet has changed the way people watch movies, TV, and cable programs, especially for the younger generations. The new online viewing experience is called third screen, which meant the computer screen would be the third major way of watching content. There is also now a fourth screen which is using smartphones, iPod, iPad, and mobile TV devices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20SdkjLjnDY important time (.40 to 2.50)
Things today are completely different as the television has entered the fourth stage in the life cycle of mass medium convergence. Today, consumers watch television on anything from big screen TVs to small mobile devices (smartphones and tablets).
Questions to ask yourself?
1. How do I watch TV?
2. How do my parents/grandparents watch TV?
3. How will future generations/my children watch TV?
Created by: Brian Mosson
Family Guy’s vs The Simpson
Which cartoon is worst for children to watch?
It is said that todays cartoons are not the same as they used to be. Cartoon used to be educational and informative and now they are filled with violence. Today’s children watch these cartoons and think that this very behavior is ok to imitate.
By Christopher Gildemeister ( Parent Control TV)
Links: Recorded Music in the Age of Convergence
- Music Collections in the Era of the Cloud: Subscribing to Spotify, etc. are really just a way of “renting” music. Does ownership of objects (CDs, vinyl) or files (MP3s) matter anymore? See also: Young Fans Choose Streaming Over Owning
- PBS: The Time is Right for “Direct-to-Fan” Marketing of Music: How musicians can bypass the old business model and get music directly to their fans via the internet.
- My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89: A fairly well-established musician discuses his royalties from streaming and radio airplay.
- OK Go Lead Singer’s Op-Ed in New York Times: A well-written defense of why EMI — OK Go’s former record label — was wrong to disable embedding of their popular videos.