Check out NMCC’s Top 10 for April: a list relevant blogs, videos, podcasts, and sites surrounding new media, digital culture, and digital scholarship. The following list is in no particular order, but each one provides insight, resources, and information about new media and its impact on the world.
Media Commons: a digital scholarly network
Media Commons examines new ways to publish in the field of media studies, access to writing, and digital productions. Users can get involved in the conversations all over the site by blogging and creating their own portfolios and profiles
MIT’s Micha Altman on Digital Scholarship
What is digital scholarship? What is its purpose? What are the benefits? Micha Altman “unbundles” Digital Scholarship and its differences from traditional methods.
Mediashift
Mediashift focuses on both media and technology and examines the ways they are, “changing the way we get our news and information.” It focuses on how traditional media is forced to evolve or alter their strategies to account for the technology of the digital age.
EDUCAUSE
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit that focuses on advancing higher education through information technology. The site combines new media practices with education and houses a blog, links to resources for educators, events, and job opportunities.
Bryan Alexander: A Digital Scholarship Scenario
How will digital scholarship affect the process of scholarly publishing? Bryan Alexander gives a hypothetical situation for a digital approach to scholarly publishing followed by a discussion about the benefits of expanding traditional publication methods.
Information Aesthetics
Originally based on Lev Manovich’s idea of “information aesthetics,” this blog collects and curates data visualization projects that display information in “original or intriguing ways.
The New Media Show
The New Media show is a podcast hosted by Todd Cochrane and Rob Greenlee. Also available in video, the new media focused show covers topics like media platforms, apps, software, publishing, and new technology.
Signal v. Noise
Signal v. Noise focuses on new media issues specifically surrounding business and technology. It has everything from posts about programming and writing apps to events and opinion pieces.
The Future of New Media
Anil Dash discusses the difference in New Media between innovation and accessibility and what this difference means for the future of culture.
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Run by a law firm that specializes in technology, intellectual property, publishing, and new media, this blog analyzes the legal aspects surrounding new media and the digital age.
