Professor Elam

Tuesday May 24, 2011

There is always a fad going round, clothing fads, food fads, and yes technology fads. Tech communications developments well let's see starting about 1840

telegraph

newsprint in 1850 makes newspapers a reality

telephone (initially rejected by Western Union by the way)

radio

television

media, cylinder used by Edison, phonograph record, reel to reel, eight track, casette, digital tape, VCR,  CD, Mp3, downloads, USB

Internet, and yes, the dot.coms

Now is social media a new deal. This article says no. Nothing has changed this is just a new medium

Hmm, we might ask as I posted yesterday, Mr. Murdoch how is that MySpace deal working out?

Such fads come and go, yes it is another way of communicating but that is all it is, what's the message, what's the product, what's the value?