Why It’s a Good Time to Go Into Journalism
In 2007, Serra Media CEO Mark Briggs published Journalism 2.0, a popular “digital literacy guide” for journalists (made available as a free downloadable e-book with funding from the Knight foundation).  In a just-published 

The Internet Is Unstoppable
Matthew Stringer produced this video as part of class discussion of Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks. Have a look – it’s excellent! Click here to view the embedded video. Related Posts January 21, 2009 — The State of the MCDM (2) August 9, 2008 —

Murdoch, Microsoft Talk “Exclusive Search”
Google holds 71% of the search market; Bing, 10% (chart). Cory Doctorow has a clear crystal ball. Earlier this month, Rupert Murdoch accused Google of stealing his content and threatened to cut the search giant off. Cory guessed that Murdoch might be angling for a search-engine payment deal: Murdoch has no intention of shutting down search-engin

A Lesson from the Shutdown of Cyworld
In the MCDM program, we study many positive examples of digital media. Now I would like to share information about the shutdown of Cyworld, a negative example of brand management and customer service in social media. As the largest social networking site in South Korea, Cyworld started reaching an overseas market in 2006. Local offices were launched in the U.S., Taiwan, Japan and China. However, Cyworld’s big dream of globalization crashed in 2008. Most lo

Revisiting Twitter in Africa
Image from "This" Magazine If this past summer’s controversial presidential election in Iran was any indication, Twitter has fast become a major platform for political discussion and grassroots organization on the global stage.  Social media, particularly the micro-blogging service Twitter, flexed its muscles during the opposition protests of the Iranian election results, and, at least for a month or two, it seemed that a global on-line conversation about democracy in Iran migh