Ebooks, Libraries and HarperCollins

I must confess from the very beginning that I am not familiar with internal dealings between publishers and authors or with the libraries. Nevertheless, I support the HarperCollins policy. Seeing how the readership of ebook is growing, allowing public libraries to offer loans of ebooks without limit is detrimental to any good business venture. CNN [...]

Cathy’s Key

Looking at the Cathy’s Key gives some sense of a combination of social media. I think it is a learning context eventhough it will appeal to a particular demographic rather than general. Particularly the young. The graphics are good, though I think it is a little over done and that is why it will not [...]

No Electricity, No Technology!

The scenario of ‘no electricity’ is not new to me. In fact, I have endured more than a day of blackout. For those of us who come from countries that power supply is not stable this has been a misery experience. I travelled to my country, Nigeria in spring this year. I had to charge [...]

Facebook and I

Web 2.0 provides great functionalities and openness to connection with the world. Some applications of the web 2.0 that I am familiar with are Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, Flickr and MySpace. I have an account with all except Flickr and MySpace. I am not too familiar with Social Bookmarking sites like Delicious and CiteULike. RSS [...]

Uses of Blogs and Wikis for Instructions and Learning: Benefits and Drawbacks

Blogs and Wikis are very important additions to the learning process. Although people have different purposes for operating a blog or Wiki, one single uniting factor is for the purpose of sharing information. Duffy and Bruns (2006) opine that blogs and wikis explore flexible and mobile technologies for collaborative and (co)creative purposes, as well as [...]

Conceptualization and Operationalization of Interactivity

A Literature Review (Term paper for the course in Media Convergence, Fall 2009 at St. Cloud State university, Minnesota, U.S.A) Introduction The ambiguity that results from the standard that should be used to determine what makes one medium more interactive than the other has brought about varying definitions of the concept of interactivity. Two fundamental [...]

New Media and the Catholic Church: What Effect?

The media have undoubtedly undergone drastic changes in recent years thanks to the modern technological advancement which has brought about changes in methods of information processing and dissemination. The content of Mass Communication presented through a “broadcast” is gradually taking the form of a “narrowcast” where the older approaches to news are giving room to [...]

“When It Bleeds, It Leads”: A Look at Media Coverage of Crises

After the recent Jos crisis in November 2008, I read a document which was released on December 2, 2008 by the Plateau state branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria (C.A.N), signed by Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, the Catholic Archbishop of Jos and the State chairman of C.A.N., co-signed by Rev. Chuwang Davou, the state’s [...]