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93-448: The Players' Tribune is a new media platform that produces daily sports conversation and publishes first-person stories from professional athletes. The platform was founded by former professional Major League Baseball player Derek Jeter in 2014. Content ranges from videos to podcasts to written pieces. The Players' Tribune launched in October 2014 by Derek Jeter and Jaymee Messler,

186-549: A Free Tibet protest. Another social change seen coming from New Media is trends in fashion and the emergence of subcultures such as textspeak , Cyberpunk , and various others. Following trends in fashion and textspeak, New Media also makes way for "trendy" social change. The Ice Bucket Challenge is a recent example of this. All in the name of raising money for ALS (the lethal neurodegenerative disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease ), participants are nominated by friends via social media such as Facebook and Twitter to dump

279-492: A Scholar Athlete. Her coach, Brenda Frese , stated that: Natasha is a very athletic and unselfish player who will do whatever her team needs to help us win. She's a strong defensive player, who can play either guard spot and is a terrific passer. Natasha has a ton of personality, is a good student and fits right in with our team. Following the 2010-2011 basketball season, Cloud transferred to Saint Joseph's University . 2011–2012: Due to NCAA transfer rules, Cloud sat out

372-588: A blocked shot against Liberty . Cloud was selected in the second round and 15th overall by the Washington Mystics in the 2015 WNBA draft. During her rookie season, she averaged 3.6 points, 2.8 rebounds, and 3.4 assists per game over an average of 19.3 minutes. In 2016, Cloud suffered a left hip injury during practice at the Verizon Center. On October 10, 2019, Cloud won her first WNBA championship. In June 2020, Cloud announced that she would forgo

465-527: A bucket of ice water on themselves, or donate to the ALS Foundation. This became a huge trend through Facebook's tagging tool, allowing nominees to be tagged in the post. The videos appeared on more people's feeds, and the trend spread fast. This trend raised over 100 million dollars for the cause and increased donations by 3,500 percent. A meme, often seen on the internet, is an idea that has been replicated and passed along. Ryan Milner compared this concept to

558-481: A cause-related platform designed to allow athletes to share their philanthropic endeavors. Messler served as the president of The Players' Tribune until leaving in January 2019. In June 2017, Jeff Levick, former Spotify Chief Revenue Officer, was named the first CEO of the company. Legendary Entertainment supplied funding as well as creative support. On June 15, 2015, it was announced that New Enterprise Associates ,

651-485: A clear, linear succession, instead evolving in a more complicated network of interconnected feedback loops . What is different about new media is how they specifically refashion traditional media and how older media refashion themselves to meet the challenges of new media. Unless they contain technologies that enable digital generative or interactive processes, broadcast television programs , feature films , magazines , and books are not considered to be new media. In

744-452: A consequence, three major approaches to research on social media and relevant concerns scholars should consider before engaging in social media research have been identified. One of the major issues for observational research is whether a particular project is considered to involve human subjects. A human subject is one that “is defined by federal regulations as a living individual about whom an investigator obtains data through interaction with

837-509: A feminist blogger for the Bi-Weekly webpaper The Media says that in her "commitment to anti-oppressive feminist work, it seems obligatory for her to stay in the know just to remain relevant to the struggle." In order for Adams and other feminists who work towards spreading their messages to the public, new media becomes crucial towards completing this task, allowing people to access a movement's information instantaneously. Some are also skeptical of

930-488: A forum for intensive or in-depth policy debate, it nevertheless provides a deliberative space to discuss and encourage political participation, both directly and indirectly". Their work goes a step beyond that as well though because it shows that some social media sites foster a more robust political debate than do others such as Facebook which includes highly personal and identifiable access to information about users alongside any comments they may post on political topics. This

1023-495: A large number of choices. Rather than pushing the same objects to a mass audience, marketing now tries to target each individual separately". The evolution of virtual communities highlighted many aspects of the real world. Tom Boellstorff's studies of Second Life discuss a term known as "griefing." In Second Life griefing means to consciously upset another user during their experience of the game. Other users also posed situations of their avatar being raped and sexually harassed. In

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1116-546: A little high art and a lot of idle talk". For Sherry Turkle "making the computer into a second self, finding a soul in the machine, can substitute for human relationships". New media has the ability to connect like-minded others worldwide. While this perspective suggests that the technology drives – and therefore is a determining factor – in the process of globalization, arguments involving technological determinism are generally frowned upon by mainstream media studies. Instead academics focus on

1209-548: A new media technology that uses digital compression to dramatically increase the number of television channels that can be delivered, and which changes the nature of what can be offered through the service, but does not transform the experience of television from the user's point of view, and thus lacks a more fully interactive dimension. It remains the case that interactivity is not an inherent characteristic of all new media technologies, unlike digitization and convergence. Terry Flew argues that "the global interactive games industry

1302-543: A new way to be interacting with media. The development of GIFs , which dates back to the early stages of webpage development has evolved into a social media phenomenon. Miltner and Highfield refer to GIFs as being "polysemic." These small looping images represent a specific meaning in cultures and often can be used to display more than one meaning. Miltner and Highfield argue that GIFs are particularly useful in creating affective or emotional connections of meaning between people. Affect creates an emotional connection of meaning to

1395-474: A possible tool for social change. The combination of pictures and texts represent pop polyvocality ("the people's version"). A meme can make more serious conversations less tense while still displaying the situation at sake. The music industry was affected by the advancement of new media. Throughout years of technology growth, the music industry faced major changes such as the distribution of music from shellac to vinyl, vinyl to 8-tracks, and many more changes over

1488-426: A potentially radical shift of who is in control of information, experience and resources". W. Russell Neuman suggests that whilst the "new media" have technical capabilities to pull in one direction, economic and social forces pull back in the opposite direction. According to Neuman, "We are witnessing the evolution of a universal interconnected network of audio, video, and electronic text communications that will blur

1581-566: A round of layoffs shortly after. In 2021, The Players' Tribune expanded into Brazil and Japan, partnering with NBA player Yuta Watanabe , Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda , and soccer player Mana Iwabuchi in the Japanese expansion. In November 2019, it was announced that The Players' Tribune would be acquired by Minute Media, a digital entertainment media company that owns Mental Floss , The Big Lead , FanSided , and other digital media properties. Derek Jeter will continue to be involved in

1674-583: A senior. During the season, she averaged 12.3 points, 7.9 rebounds, 5.2 assists, and 4.0 steals per game. She earned the Michael Menichini Award in 2009. Following her high school career, Cloud received a scholarship to play at the University of Maryland as a Terp. 2010–2011: Cloud played in 31 of 32 games of her freshman year and started six times. During the season, she led the team in assists twice and in blocks three times while also being named

1767-433: A term for a number of new media use options evolving from the rapid dissemination of Internet access points, the digitalization of media, and media convergence . In 1984, Ronald E. Rice defined new media as communication technologies that enable or facilitate user-to-user interactivity and interactivity between user and information. Such a definition replaces the " one-to-many " model of traditional mass communication with

1860-584: A time), they actually manage to spend a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes worth of media content in those 7½ hours per day. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project , 96% of 18 to 29-year-olds and three-quarters (75%) of teens now own a cell phone, 88% of whom text, with 73% of wired American teens using social networking websites, a significant increase from previous years. A survey of over 25000 9- to 16-year-olds from 25 European countries found that many underage children use social media sites despite

1953-517: A true benefit to every one because people can express their artwork in more than one way with the technology that we have today and there is no longer a limit to what we can do with our creativity. Interactivity can be considered a central concept in understanding new media, but different media forms possess, or enable different degrees of interactivity, and some forms of digitized and converged media are not in fact interactive at all. Tony Feldman considers digital satellite television as an example of

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2046-512: A vast body of research, Diana Owen points out that older studies were mixed, while "newer research reveals more consistent evidence of information gain". Some of that research has shown that there is a connection between the amount and degree of voter engagement and turnout. However, new media may not have overwhelming effects on either of those. Other research is tending toward the idea that new media has reinforcing effect, that rather than completely altering, by increasing involvement, it "imitates

2139-516: A venture capital firm, had invested $ 9.5M in The Players' Tribune . Among the attractions for the firm was the athlete ownership of the site and athlete involvement. As of October 27, 2015, after the Series B first close of $ 9.5 million, another $ 5.5 million in equities was made available to additional investors. Kobe Bryant, who had been involved with TPT since December 2014, made the largest investment in

2232-402: Is completely different ... I think we can co-exist." Some media outlets question the ability of The Players' Tribune to stand out in the news cycle, especially against Twitter and other social media platforms Athletes and staff have countered with defenses of the platform's purpose, with one employee noting, "This is longform social, to tell stories with content in a natural way." Responding to

2325-529: Is higher than ever before due to streaming platforms like Apple Music, Spotify , Pandora , and many more! New media has become of interest to the global espionage community as it is easily accessible electronically in database format and can therefore be quickly retrieved and reverse engineered by national governments . Particularly of interest to the espionage community are Facebook and Twitter , two sites where individuals freely divulge personal information that can then be sifted through and archived for

2418-456: Is highly contrasted with the techy millionaire stereotype. It may seem like a carefree life from the outside, but it is not. New media workers work long hours for little pay and spend up to 20 hours a week looking for new projects to work on. Based on nationally representative data, a study conducted by Kaiser Family Foundation in five-year intervals in 1998–99, 2003–04, and 2008–09 found that with technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access,

2511-637: Is in contrast to sites like YouTube whose comments are often posted anonymously. Due to the popularity of new media, social media websites (SMWs) like Facebook and Twitter are becoming increasingly popular among researchers. Although SMWs present new opportunities, they also represent challenges for researchers interested in studying social phenomena online, since it can be difficult to determine what are acceptable risks to privacy unique to social media. Some scholars argue that standard Institutional Review Board (IRB) procedures provide little guidance on research protocols relating to social media in particular. As

2604-479: Is large and growing, and is at the forefront of many of the most significant innovations in new media". Interactivity is prominent in these online video games such as World of Warcraft , The Sims Online and Second Life . These games, which are developments of "new media," allow for users to establish relationships and experience a sense of belonging that transcends traditional temporal and spatial boundaries (such as when gamers logging in from different parts of

2697-496: Is new media?", Vin Crosbie described three different kinds of communication media. He saw interpersonal media as "one to one", mass media as "one to many", and finally new media as individuation media or "many to many". Interactivity is present in some programming work, such as video games. It's also viable in the operation of traditional media. In the mid-1990s, filmmakers started using inexpensive digital cameras to create films. It

2790-473: Is still distinct from stating that societal changes are instigated by technological development, which recalls the theses of Marshall McLuhan . Manovich and Castells have argued that whereas mass media "corresponded to the logic of industrial mass society, which values conformity over individuality," new media follows the logic of the postindustrial or globalized society whereby "every citizen can construct her own custom lifestyle and select her ideology from

2883-517: Is to look at the deliberations that take place in these digital spaces. In citing the work of several researchers, Halpern and Gibbs define deliberation to be "the performance of a set of communicative behaviors that promote thorough discussion. and the notion that in this process of communication the individuals involved weigh carefully the reasons for and against some of the propositions presented by others". The work of Daniel Halpern and Jennifer Gibbs "suggest that although social media may not provide

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2976-659: The New York Times . Richard Deitsch, a journalist who focuses on the intersection of sports and media for Sports Illustrated , described The Players’ Tribune as a "hybrid of journalism, storytelling and PR, but a really high-end combination of those three elements." Critics have brought up questions regarding the role of traditional reporters and beat writers in sports today. Jeter responded saying "We're not trying to take away from sportswriters. Sportswriters are what makes sports successful." He added, "We're not covering day-to-day sports scores. We don't have sports highlights. This

3069-720: The Amazon Prime Video television series Jack Ryan . The Players' Tribune co-produced “Untold,” a five-part Netflix docuseries that premiered with its first episode about the " Malice at the Palace " on August 10, 2021. " Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist " chronicled the catfishing story involving Manti Te'o . Other episodes include the story of tennis player Mardy Fish's mental health struggles and an account of disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy. Chapman Way and Maclain Way are credited as directors and co-executive producers of

3162-638: The Cold War and the design of the Web took place at exactly the same time. Writers and philosophers such as Marshall McLuhan were instrumental in the development of media theory during this period which is now famous declaration in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man , that " the medium is the message " drew attention to the too often ignored influence media and technology themselves, rather than their "content," have on humans' experience of

3255-631: The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). During high school, Cloud led Cardinal O'Hara to the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class AAAA state finals as a junior and to the second round as a senior. She earned First Team All-Delco honors in both her junior and senior year. As a junior, she additionally earned a Pennsylvania AAAA Third Team All-State selection. Natasha Cloud gained recognition after being named AAAA First Team All-State as

3348-494: The analytics of the traffic and profiles on various social media outlets to get real-time data about the kinds of engagement that is needed and the kinds of messages that are successful or unsuccessful. One body of existing research into the impact of new media on elections investigates the relationship between voters' use of new media and their level of political activity. They focus on areas such as "attentiveness, knowledge, attitudes, orientations, and engagement". In references

3441-419: The chief marketing officer of Excel Sports Management, Jeter's agency, as a means for athletes to offer more direct insight into their lives. The outlet began collecting venture capital funds in 2015 and entered a "next phase" which included expanding content from the written word to include podcasts, video, and a presence on SiriusXM satellite radio. The same year, The Players' Tribune launched TPT Assist,

3534-421: The iPhone , has created the inability to be in social isolation , and the potential of ruining relationships. The iPhone activates the insular cortex of the brain, which is associated with feelings of love. People show similar feelings to their phones as they would to their friends, family and loved ones. Countless people spend more time on their phones, while in the presence of other people than spending time with

3627-457: The "death of distance". New media has established the importance of making friendships through digital social places more prominent than in physical places. Globalization is generally stated as "more than expansion of activities beyond the boundaries of particular nation states". New media "radically break the connection between physical place and social place, making physical location much less significant for our social relationships". However,

3720-508: The 1950s, connections between computing and radical art began to grow stronger. It was not until the 1980s that Alan Kay and his co-workers at Xerox PARC began to give the computability of a personal computer to the individual, rather than have a big organization be in charge of this. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, we seem to witness a different kind of parallel relationship between social changes and computer design . Although causally unrelated, conceptually, it makes sense that

3813-591: The 2008 presidential campaign established new standards for how campaigns would be run. Since then, campaigns also have their outreach methods by developing targeted messages for specific audiences that can be reached via different social media platforms. Both parties have specific digital media strategies designed for voter outreach. Additionally, their websites are socially connected, engaging voters before, during, and after elections. Email and text messages are also regularly sent to supporters encouraging them to donate and get involved. Some existing research focuses on

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3906-754: The 2011–2012 season. She was named a member of the SJU Director's Honor Roll. 2013–2014: Cloud served as co-captain of her team. She earned Atlantic 10 (A10) Defensive Player of the Year and was additionally named to the A10 All-Conference Second Team. She was named to the Nancy Lieberman Award Watch List for the top point guard in the nation. During the season, Cloud averaged 11.5 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 7.6 assists per game. She ranked second nationally in assists per game, setting

3999-734: The 2020 WNBA season due to concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and a desire to focus on social justice advocacy. After playing for the Mystics for nine years, Cloud signed to the Phoenix Mercury in 2024. During the 2015–2016 season, Cloud played in Istanbul, Turkey for Besiktas . From 2022 to 2024, Cloud played for Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball . She was a member of the Player Executive Committee from 2022 to 2023 and named to

4092-523: The SJU single-season record for assists (243) and leading the A10 in assists and assists to turnover ratio. During the 2014 NCAA tournament , she scored 13 points, seven rebounds, four assists, two blocked shots, and two steals in a first round win over Georgia . During the second round, she posted 10 points, six assists, one block, and one steal against Connecticut , the eventual champions. 2014–2015: Cloud served as

4185-550: The ability to change their privacy settings on most social media websites. Facebook, for example, provides users with the ability to restrict who sees their posts through specific privacy settings. There is also debate about whether requiring users to create a username and password is sufficient to establish whether the data is considered public or private. Historically, Institutional Review Boards considered such websites to be private, although newer websites like YouTube call this practice into question. For example, YouTube only requires

4278-439: The amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among Black and Hispanic youth. Today, 8 to 18-year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media in a typical day (more than 53 hours a week) – about the same amount most adults spend at work per day. Since much of that time is spent 'media multitasking' (using more than one medium at

4371-420: The athlete and the outlet's editorial team, with close oversight by the athlete. The vast majority of articles are written by staff at The Players' Tribune , who craft stories based on interviews conducted with the athletes. All content is approved by the athletes before it is posted, with some exercising greater control over the finished product than others. The site's former editorial director, Gary Hoenig, noted

4464-469: The automatic creation of dossiers on both people of interest and the average citizen. New media also serves as an important tool for both institutions and nations to promote their interests and values (The contents of such promotion may vary according to different purposes). Some communities consider it an approach of "peaceful evolution" that may erode their own nation's system of values and eventually compromise national security. Interactivity has become

4557-483: The business as a member of the Minute Media's board of directors. The platform's content includes first-person written stories, videos, podcasts , and photo galleries. Topics covered by the platform include mental health, athlete retirements, social justice issues, and more. As of 2018, more than 1,800 athletes, coaches and sports personalities had contributed to the site. The content is produced in partnership between

4650-432: The changes in the new media environment create a series of tensions in the concept of "public sphere". According to Ingrid Volkmer, "public sphere" is defined as a process through which public communication becomes restructured and partly disembedded from national political and cultural institutions. This trend of the globalized public sphere is not only as a geographical expansion form a nation to worldwide, but also changes

4743-539: The co-captain of her team for the second straight year. She was named Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team and was an All-Defensive Team selection. She was a finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Award and Naismith Trophy Watch List nominee. During the season, Cloud averaged 12.9 points a game and led the Atlantic 10 in assists and averaged minutes. She scored a career-high 29 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and

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4836-661: The consumption of different media, displacement theory argue that the viewership or readership of one particular outlet leads to the reduction in the amount of time spent by the individual on another. The introduction of new media, such as the internet, therefore reduces the amount of time individuals would spend on existing "old" media, which could ultimately lead to the end of such traditional media. Although, there are several ways that new media may be described, Lev Manovich , in an introduction to The New Media Reader , defines new media by using eight propositions: The rise of new media has increased communication between people all over

4929-464: The course of technological change, since many factors, including individual inventiveness and entrepreneurialism, intervene in the process of scientific discovery, technical innovation and social applications, so the final outcome depends on a complex pattern of interaction. Indeed the dilemma of technological determinism is probably a false problem, since technology is society and society cannot be understood without its technological tools". This, however,

5022-463: The creation of a "radical, socio-technical paradigm to challenge the dominant, neoliberal and technologically determinist model of information and communication technologies." A less radical view along these same lines is that people are taking advantage of the Internet to produce a grassroots globalization, one that is anti-neoliberal and centered on people rather than the flow of capital. Chanelle Adams,

5115-474: The creation of a username and password to post videos and/or view adult content, but anyone is free to view general YouTube videos and these general videos would not be subject to consent requirements for researchers looking to conduct observational studies. Natasha Cloud Natasha " Tasha " Cloud (born February 22, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of

5208-465: The decades. Beginning in the early 1900s, audio was released on a brittle material called " shellac ." The quality of the sound was very distorted and the delicacy of the physical format resulted in the change to LPs (Long Playing). The first LP was made by Columbia Records in 1948 and later on, RCA developed the EP (Extended Play) which was only seven inches around and had a longer playing time in comparison to

5301-517: The distinction between interpersonal and mass communication; and between public and private communication". Neuman argues that new media will: Consequently, it has been the contention of scholars such as Douglas Kellner and James Bohman that new media and particularly the Internet will provide the potential for a democratic postmodern public sphere, in which citizens can participate in well informed, non-hierarchical debate pertaining to their social structures. Contradicting these positive appraisals of

5394-403: The early work into new media studies was guilty of technological determinism  – whereby the effects of media were determined by the technology themselves, rather than through tracing the complex social networks which governed the development, funding, implementation and future development of any technology. Based on the argument that people have a limited amount of time to spend on

5487-430: The effectiveness of the movement itself. Along with this example the use of high volume blogs has allowed numerous views and practices to be more widespread and gain more public attention. Another example is the ongoing Free Tibet Campaign , which has been seen on numerous websites as well as having a slight tie-in with the band Gorillaz in their Gorillaz Bitez clip featuring the lead singer 2D sitting with protesters at

5580-770: The established pattern of political participation ". After analyzing the Citizenship Involvement Democracy survey, Taewoo Nam found that "the internet plays a dual role in mobilizing political participation by people not normally politically involved, as well as reinforcing existing offline participation." These findings chart a middle ground between some research that optimistically holds new media up to be an extremely effective or extremely ineffective at fostering political participation. Terri Towner found, in his survey of college students, that attention to new media increases offline and online political participation particularly for young people. His research shows that

5673-490: The field of new media may seem hip, cool, creative, and relaxed. What many don't realize is that working in this field is tiresome. Many of the people that work in this field don't have steady jobs. Work in this field has become project-based. Individuals work project to project for different companies. Most people are not working on one project or contract, but on multiple ones at the same time. Despite working on numerous projects, people in this industry receive low payments, which

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5766-508: The general public, the television industry has used new media and the Internet to expand its resources for new programming and content. The advertising industry has also capitalized on the proliferation of new media with large agencies running multimillion-dollar interactive advertising subsidiaries. Interactive websites and kiosks have become popular. In a number of cases advertising agencies have also set up new divisions to study new media. Public relations firms are also taking advantage of

5859-687: The importance of what Trini values and beliefs existed within the page while also representing their identities on the web. Social movement media has a rich and storied history (see Agitprop ) that has changed at a rapid rate since new media became widely used. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation of Chiapas , Mexico were the first major movement to make widely recognized and effective use of new media for communiques and organizing in 1994. Since then, new media has been used extensively by social movements to educate, organize, share cultural products of movements, communicate, coalition build, and more. The WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity

5952-423: The individual or identifiable private information”. If access to a social media site is public, information is considered identifiable but not private, and information gathering procedures do not require researchers to interact with the original poster of the information, then this does not meet the requirements for human subjects research. Research may also be exempt if the disclosure of participant responses outside

6045-557: The league's 2023 All Defense Team. On August 27, 2024, it was announced that Cloud would appear and play in the inaugural season of Unrivaled , the women's 3x3 basketball league founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart . Cloud represented Jordan at the 2021 FIBA Women's Asia Cup in Amman, Jordan. She helped her team to reach the promotion playoff final, before losing to Lebanon and missing promotion to Division A. Stats current through end of 2024 season Source Cloud

6138-417: The multiplicity of processes by which technology is funded, researched and produced, forming a feedback loop when the technologies are used and often transformed by their users, which then feeds into the process of guiding their future development. While commentators such as Manuel Castells espouse a "soft determinism" whereby they contend that "Technology does not determine society. Nor does society script

6231-519: The music. This effect caused a major loss in the music industry but it also led to the evolution of mixtapes. As music technologies continued to develop from 8-tracks , floppy discs , CD's , and now, MP3 , so did new media platforms as well. The discovery of MP3's in the 1990s has since changed the world we live in today. At first, MP3 tracks threatened the industry with massive piracy file-to-file sharing networks such as Napster , until laws were established to prevent this. However, consumption of music

6324-460: The notion that the site might be used to polish athlete reputations, Executive Editor Sean Conboy said, “Our most successful stories are the ones that have nothing to do with just trying to burnish the reputation of an athlete. They have something to do with them really revealing themselves and saying things they've maybe never said before.” Journalist Keith Olbermann criticized the site's inclusion of eSports players, saying that they "have jumped

6417-564: The opportunities in new media through interactive PR practices. Interactive PR practices include the use of social media to reach a mass audience of online social network users. With the development of the Internet, many new career paths have emerged. Before the rise, many tech jobs were considered boring. The Internet led to creative work that was seen as casual and diverse across gender, race, and sexual orientation. Web design, gaming design, webcasting, blogging, and animation are all creative career paths that came with this rise. At first glance,

6510-462: The original LP. The desire for portable music still persisted in this era which projected the launch of the compact cassette. The Cassette was released in 1963 and flourished after post-war where Cassette tapes were being converted into cars for entertainment when traveling. Not long after the development of the cassette did the music industry begin to see forms of piracy. Cassette tapes allowed people to make their own tapes without paying for rights to

6603-599: The outlet also produces podcasts and videos, notably the Knuckleheads podcast, hosted by former NBA players Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles ; Truss Levelz , hosted by NFL players Cameron Jordan and Mark Ingram ; and Blindsided , hosted by former NHL player Corey Hirsch and Dr. Diane McIntosh. As of 2018, the site averages 3.4 million unique views a month in the United States, according to ComScore . Visitors to

6696-400: The people in the same room or class. In trying to determine the impact of new media on political campaigning and electioneering, the existing research has tried to examine whether new media supplants conventional media. Television is still the dominant news source, but new media's reach is growing. What is known is that new media has had a significant impact on elections and what began in

6789-495: The person and their culture. The new media industry shares an open association with many market segments in areas such as software / video game design , television , radio , mobile and particularly movies, advertising and marketing , through which industry seeks to gain from the advantages of two-way dialogue with consumers primarily through the Internet . As a device to source the ideas, concepts, and intellectual properties of

6882-428: The platform and led all athletes in the round. Athletes represented by GenTrust, an investment management company, were among the athletes who invested. As of January 19, 2017, The Players' Tribune had raised an additional $ 40 million in funding, bringing the total amount raised to $ 58 million. In 2018, The Players' Tribune purchased Unscriptd, a tech start-up which produces short-form video content. The startup began

6975-419: The possibility of a " many-to-many " web of communication. Any individual with the appropriate technology can now produce his or her online media and include images, text, and sound about whatever he or she chooses. Thus the convergence of new methods of communication with new technologies shifts the model of mass communication, and radically reshapes the ways we interact and communicate with one another. In "What

7068-454: The potential social impacts of new media are scholars such as Edward S. Herman and Robert McChesney who have suggested that the transition to new media has seen a handful of powerful transnational telecommunications corporations who achieve a level of global influence which was hitherto unimaginable. Scholars have highlighted both the positive and negative potential and actual implications of new media technologies, suggesting that some of

7161-431: The prevalence of online media boosts participation and engagement. His work suggests that "it seems that online sources that facilitate political involvement, communication, and mobilization, particularly campaign websites, social media, and blogs, are the most important for offline political participation among young people". When gauging effects and implications of new media on the political process, one means of doing so

7254-542: The real world, these same types of actions are carried out. Virtual communities are a clear demonstration of new media through means of new technological developments. Anthropologist Daniel Miller and sociologist Don Slater discussed online Trinidad culture on online networks through the use of ethnographic studies. The study argues that internet culture does exist and this version of new media cannot eliminate people's relations to their geographic area or national identity. The focus on Trini culture specifically demonstrated

7347-457: The realm of the published research does not subject the participant to civic or criminal liability, damage the participant's reputation, employability or financial standing. Given these criteria, however, researchers still have considerable leeway when conducting observational research on social media. Many profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Twitter are public and researchers are free to use that data for observational research. Users have

7440-507: The relationship between the public, the media and state. " Virtual communities " are being established online and transcend geographical boundaries, eliminating social restrictions. Howard Rheingold describes these globalized societies as self-defined networks, which resemble what we do in real life. "People in virtual communities use words on screens to exchange pleasantries and argue, engage in intellectual discourse, conduct commerce, make plans, brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, create

7533-403: The remaining 'old' media, as suggested by the advent of digital television and online publications . Even traditional media forms such as the printing press have been transformed through the application of technologies by using of image manipulation software like Adobe Photoshop and desktop publishing tools. Andrew L. Shapiro argues that the "emergence of new, digital technologies signals

7626-520: The role of new media in social movements. Many scholars point out unequal access to new media as a hindrance to broad-based movements, sometimes even oppressing some within a movement. Others are skeptical about how democratic or useful it really is for social movements, even for those with access. New media has also found a use with less radical social movements such as the Free Hugs Campaign . Using websites, blogs, and online videos to demonstrate

7719-452: The series. Athletes' contributions have won praise from the sports media. The Players' Tribune has been criticized for using the practice of ghostwriting in some of its articles. "Like nearly every post on the site, the Ortiz essay was not written directly by its bylined athlete but instead crafted from a recorded interview with a Tribune staff producer," wrote Richard Sandomir, in an article for

7812-437: The shark by publishing pieces by snotty random kids playing children's games" in response to an article by Doublelift , a League of Legends player. The Executive Editor of The Players' Tribune is Sean Conboy. New media The phrase "new media" refers to computational media that share material online and through computers. New media inspire new ways of thinking about older media. Media do not replace one another in

7905-443: The site spend more than seven minutes per story. Former CEO Jeff Levick described The Players’ Tribune revenue model as largely based around selling branded content. Several sponsors have signed a deal with The Players' Tribune . Porsche debuted as their first sponsor, as well as Powerade , Dove , Toyota , Red Bull , and Built with Chocolate Milk. The site partnered with American Family Insurance in 2016 and collaborated with

7998-623: The site's stated age requirements, and many youth lack the digital skills to use social networking sites safely. The development of the new digital media demands a new educational model by parents and educators. Parental mediation has become a way to manage the children's experiences with Internet, chat, videogames and social network. A recent trend in internet is YouTubers Generation. YouTubers are young people who offer free video in their personal channel on YouTube. There are videos on games, fashion, food, cinema and music, where they offers tutorial or comments. The role of cellular phones, such as

8091-747: The stories are largely crafted from "monologues, with questions to nudge the conversation along," rather than a traditional interview. Athletes such as former MLB player David Ortiz and former NBA player Kobe Bryant have used the platform to announce their retirements. Bryant's retirement announcement, titled " Dear Basketball ", was turned into an Academy Award -winning short film of the same name in 2017. Pieces from athletes have on occasion broken into mainstream media conversations, including articles by Kevin Love and Larry Sanders on mental health, Natasha Cloud on racism and social justice, and Breanna Stewart on child sexual abuse. In addition to written pieces,

8184-407: The ways that political campaigns, parties, and candidates have incorporated new media into their political strategizing. This is often a multi-faceted approach that combines new and old media forms to create highly specialized strategies. This allows them to reach wider audiences, but also to target very specific subsets of the electorate. They are able to tap into polling data and in some cases harness

8277-444: The world and on society broadly. Until the 1980s, media relied primarily upon print and analog broadcast models such as television and radio . The last twenty-five years have seen the rapid transformation into media which are predicated upon the use of digital technologies such as the Internet and video games . However, these examples are only a small representation of new media. The use of digital computers has transformed

8370-467: The world and the Internet. It has allowed people to express themselves through blogs, websites, videos, pictures, and other user-generated media. Terry Flew stated that as new technologies develop, the world becomes more globalized. Globalization is more than the development of activities throughout the world, globalization allows the world to be connected no matter the distance from user to user and Frances Cairncross expresses this great development as

8463-496: The world interact). These games can be used as an escape or to act out a desired life. New media have created virtual realities that are becoming virtual extensions of the world we live in. With the creation of Second Life and Active Worlds before it, people have even more control over this virtual world, a world where anything that a participant can think of can become a reality. Interactive games and platforms such as YouTube and Facebook have led to many viral apps that devise

8556-464: Was also the time when moving image technology had developed, which was able to be viewed on computer desktops in full motion. This development of new media technology was a new method for artists to share their work and interact with the big world. Other settings of interactivity include radio and television talk shows, letters to the editor, listener participation in such programs, and computer and technological programming. Interactive new media has become

8649-478: Was another landmark in the use of new media as a tool for social change. The WTO protests used media to organize the original action, communicate with and educate participants, and was used as an alternative media source. The Indymedia movement also developed out of this action, and has been a great tool in the democratization of information, which is another widely discussed aspect of new media movement. Some scholars even view this democratization as an indication of

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