Minimum Memoranda
New Technologies can be used to deconstruct the capitalistic' power system. Free circulation of information can bring people to the next stage of an Informational Capitalism and a no-profit system. This free circulation of information can be support by local and independent media. Nowadays they become translocal because trough streaming media it is possible to spread information all over the world. Electronic media can change and are already changing our everyday life. Read more about this in the article written by Tetsuo Kogawa, one of the guest of N5M3. By Tetsuo Kogawa - februari 1999 |
Fight Post-Governemental-Content-Control
Streaming media are entering the communication world with the same energy and power of a tornado. Governments, big corporations, independent media activists, everybody has to deal with the web reality. Any content can be put and moved anywhere and be accessed from 'illegal' location, and to regulate such a complex and international situation it is really a difficult task. Streaming Media breaks UK law. Find out why nobody wants to care... By Micz Flor - februari 1999 |
Everyone will be TV
On-line streaming media are less expencive than traditional radio and tv networking. Anyone can start a new New-network. Look at Opennet in the Balkan Read more. Drazin Pantic, February 1999 |
The Law of Web TV
Convergence is affecting all the media, pushing them to homogenise. Web-TV has the advantages of the two dominant media of our time, Internet and television. It put together the connectivity of the Internet and the collectivity of Tv, the interest for the individual and a no boundaries space. Read More in the article written by Derrick de Kerckove |
Streaming Networks
Audio on the Net is booming. Tv is joining the Net. The Internet promises new possibilities, boundless access. In the future to realise any program will mean to offer a product which has the contribution of different intelligence and hybrid media. . Read More By Nina Meilof - februari 1999 |
Think possibility... not: License
Why try to become legal, illegal media are fine. Read More By Josephine Bosma - februari 1999 |
The changes that will take place
On-line streaming media supplies more in depth and faster information, reaching a global audience. The facilities of the new information era have already influenced and changed the communication landscape. We should consider how to deal and profit from this changes. Read more. By Raoul Marroquin and Daniela Salvemini, Amsterdam February 1999 |
Netradio Days
Net Radio days 98 has been an interesting conference about the new generation of streaming media practioners which use software as the Real Audio to broadcast audio content live on Internet.
The conference was hosted by two organisations: Mikro, that represents academics and info-addicts,and Convex Tv, a group of young Berliners that have a radio show on the web.
The conference touched manyissues concerning streaming media and new possibiliteies, and shown aswell the difference between net radio and other net practice. Here youcan find an article written by Adam Hyte |
The Californian Ideology
The convergence of medias trasforming the way in which we work, play and live togheter, improvingthe creative powers of human beings and the quality of everyday life.
An heterogeneus ortodoxyfor the new landscape has been created by writers, hackers,capitalist,artist in the West Coast of US, to explain and show the emancypatory potentialof the New Information Technologies. A movement of media activist raisedup in California from the '60s in order to create an electronic agora'.The California ideology is the result of the efforts of different and extrememovements that finally joined togheter within the IT.
The Californian ideology,beliving in the visions of both yuppies and hippies, right and left, offersan interesting idea od the convergence of media. Read the full story byRichard Barbrook and Andy Cameron |
| Audio technology on the web
The media landscape is ina transitional phase since Tv and radio are entering the digital era. Manyradio stations are starting to use Internet as a mean to embrace a wideraudience and to become more interactive. Therefore, there is a growingneed for information about how Internet and radio can positively join togheter.The Ebu (European Broadcasting Union) has surveyed the situation and conductedcomparison of Internet streaming software. The result can be find spi linto two sections. Part A is a global overview of developments on the Net.It focus on the challenge and opportunities for any radio station consideringthe Use of Internet as a part of a wider multi-media strategy. Part B containsdetailed technical result s carried out at the end of 1996. Check PartA and Part B. |
From VTR to Cyberspace
This article is a great overview of the democratic potential of new technologies. Cable Tv at the beginning and Internet lately increased the utopia of social change media freaks. To bring together the best part of community channel (via cable) and the best part of Internet, a media that allows you to share ideas with people all over the world, gives the hope that it is possible to change the "way things are" and create a better system of electronic communication. It is not the changes that might take place, but the changes that are already occuring and how to make the most of it. Read more. by Mark Surman |
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