In teams research two items each that you consider to be examples of digital media – please do a write up of your chosen example and share with your team-mates for inclusion on their blogs (ie so each person will have six write-ups to include – you can also add your own notes to any write-up – each person ).
- Explain why you think it is digital media
- How designer s and lay people might use or work with this media
- Include imagery (at least 3 per item)
- Something about the mechanics of the medium
- Explain what your interest in this medium is
- Any other notes you think useful or relevant
We each chose two parts in digital media to research
Me
PDF Magazines
Kirsten
Youtube
Photoshop
Sarah
Apps (in general)
What is Digital Media?
“Digital media is defined in a variety of ways…digital media is defined as those technologies that allow users to create new forms of interaction, expression, communication, and entertainment in a digital format. The term digital has been coined to reflect the evolution of multimedia computing into multi sensory communications. The goal of multimedia and now digital media is to reproduce as closely as possible the reliability and effectiveness found in face-to-face communications and then emulate that in online environments such as social networking, using computers and other technologies.”
Teachers discovering Computers: Intergrating technology and digital media in the Classroom. (Shelly, 2007)
University of Worcester.
‘Digital Media’ is the combination of digital technology & creativity. Examples of this could include:
* Interactive multimedia
* Digital video and film production
* Web design
* Image creation
* Digital photography
* Interface design
* Digital animation
* 3D modelling
* Digital sound technology
* Graphic design for print and web
What is Multimedia?
What is a multimedia production?
The term “multimedia productions” refers to productions that present information in more than one sensory mode, e.g., both audibly and visually. For instance, streaming video with a soundtrack is a multimedia production.
Extract from: http://doit.maryland.gov/policies/Pages/NVAReg07.aspx
What is Instagram?
Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010 it is an Online, Photosharing, videosharing & Social Networking app that enables users to digitally take pictures, apply filters to them and share them on a variety of social networking sites. Imagine Twitter with just images and videos!
Who uses it?
Initially Instagram was limited to users of IOS devices and only avaliable on the app store, popular among young adults it was a way of showing your life to people purely by image – many image focused people used it to showcase thier latest purchases or hairstyles, it was also popular among bloggers who could simply take a photo of an outfit etc to promote thier blog – often a picture catches someone eye more than a chunk of text.
In 2011 Instagram introduced hashtags which helps users discover both photographs and each other
In April 2012 it was expanded to Android and many brand started to use it to promote thier businesses.
An interesting article here explains how business users can make the most of Instagram to promote thier business.
Joe Hyrkin, the new CEO of the seven-year-old company, says Issuu is doing for print publications what YouTube did for video producers.
“If you remember the early 2000s, there was very little video content on the Internet, and it was pretty cumbersome to work with,” Hyrkin says. “Then YouTube came along, and in one click you could make your video content shareable and accessible, because of the ubiquity of broadband. We are doing the same thing for published magazines and catalogs…I am really focused on Issuu becoming the leader of an ecosystem.”
With over 15 million publications, Issuu is the fastest growing digital publishing platform in the world. Millions of avid readers come here every day to read the free publications created by enthusiastic publishers from all over the globe with topics in fashion, lifestyle, art, sports and global affairs to mention a few. And that’s not all. We’ve also got a prominent range of independent publishers utilizing the Issuu network to reach new fans every day.
Created by a bunch of geeks with an undying love for the publishing industry, Issuu has grown to become one of the biggest publishing networks in the industry. It’s an archive, library and newsstand all gathered in one reading experience.
Publishing on ISSUU
ISSUU allows you to upload several PDF’s and form a sleek online flash based book all for FREE!
Benefits for publishers
- Makes fast work of batch uploading PDFs and converting them to an online book
- Flipping pages
- Ability to share your publication on social media sites
- Ability to embed in your website or allow a user to embed in theirs
- Fast loading (each pages loads in advance)
- Super sleek design
- Multiple views of pages
- Page zooming
- FREE
ISSUU Audience
ISSUU has an ever-increasing audience, the articles range from fashion to ones aimed at children.
It was started in America and was initially an english website however becoming more popular has led to articles in many languages appealing to more countries.
At the moment ISSUU is only available online or as an app on Android devices, some concerns are that publishers are loosing views from owners of IOS devices, however ISSUU states they are currently working on more apps to cater for the wider population.
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