Digital media

About: Digital media is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17508 publications have been published within this topic receiving 266693 citations. The topic is also known as: machine-readable data.

Selling or Advertising: Strategies for Providing Digital Media Online

Abstract: Media and network companies are increasingly providing digital media online. We develop a model to examine optimal strategies for media providers to utilize the online channel to distribute digital media. We examine a number of options for media providers. Our results suggest that media companies should sell programs online when content quality is relative high and online access cost is low. When online access cost is relative high, media providers could use the advertising strategy. Overall, companies are better off providing both pricing and advertising options to consumers. We derive the optimal price and advertising level, and analyze the factors that affect the price and advertising decisions. We find that as advertisement revenue rate increases, advertising level should be kept low. In addition, media companies should set online price and advertising level with consideration of the traditional channel in order to avoid channel cannibalization. We also analyze the advertising level in the traditional channel. Our results suggest that as digital video recorder technologies provide more convenience to consumers, media companies should increase, rather than decrease, revenues from advertising.

Presenting supplemental content for digital media using a multimodal application

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of rendering to a user data describing where to purchase an item depicted in a portion of digital media being rendered to the user, the method comprising rendering, by a multimodal application, operating on a multimodal device and implemented with a grammar, the portion of the digital media; receiving, by the multimodal application, as a user request a voice utterance from a user; determining, by the multimodal application using an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine, a recognition result in dependence upon the voice utterance and the grammar, querying a content repository for supplemental content associated with at least a portion of the recognition result, comprising data describing where to purchase the item; and rendering, by the multimodal application, the supplemental content.

Local Journalism: The Decline of Newspapers and the Rise of Digital Media:

Abstract: was reading the book during the unfolding of the refugee crisis, and this proclaimed respect (let alone love) of the Other is in very short supply. Alexa Robinson’s book is an excellent resource for students; I cannot emphasize that enough. Her sheer ability to draw such an expansive portrayal of academic discussions over an entire field and the confidence and clarity of her examples are commendable. I still find myself hoping that textbooks will one day give way to reading groups of core texts, and insightful, critical discussions over them.

Ubiquitous learning: An agenda for educational transformation

Abstract: Ubiquitous learning is a new educational paradigm made possible in part by the affordances of digital media. This paper sets out to explore the dimensions of this proposition. We can use new technologies to do learn old things in old ways, but the learner’s relationship to knowledge and the processes of pedagogy have not changed in any significant way. The emergence of ubiquitous computing creates new conditions for all working as education professionals and learning as students. The key is not the logic or technical specifications of the machines. Rather it is the new ways in which meaning is created, stored, delivered and accessed. In this paper, we suggest seven moves which are characteristic of ubiquitous learning. Each explores and exploits the potentials of ubiquitous computing. None, however, is a pedagogical thought or social agenda that is new to the era of ubiquitous computing. The only difference today is that there is now no practical reason not to make each of these moves. The affordances are there, and if we can, perhaps we should. And when we do, we may discover that a new educational paradigm begins to emerge. And as new paradigms emerge, we might find they take a leading role on technological innovation.

System and method for tracking the network viral spread of a digital media content item

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to track viral marketing. The resulting user interfaces can include a map that tracks propagation via a node tree or a geographic map that shows where media was viewed. The information may also be displayed as a cumulative or absolute tracking graph, which is based on various parameters, such as number of views, number of transmissions, rewards earned, etc. The systems and methods can track viral propagation through, e.g., email, social networking service or site messages or postings, and instant messages. Data used by the invention include URLs as received from a media transmission page form, the URLs pertaining to both the propagator and the recipient, time stamps at which the media was propagated and viewed, and so on.