Future of New Media
I didn’t expect this. I don’t know why I should expect it when my view of something I think I have a good grasp on becomes something completely different. After all I am a ‘Content Creator’ and over the last year I have produced almost 80 shows and I brought them to the public. I thought I understood the whole idea of New Media, after all my Podcast is ‘New Media’. Well at least it was ‘New Media’ since as I see it that title has moved on to something bigger and in my opinion better.
It all started when I came across a new show online (well new to me) I have been watching over the past few weeks and it has really grown on me and last night I became an official fan. The show is called Peter Himmelman’s Furious World and it is a variety show of music, interviews, and produced clips. The show well produced and something I find really enjoyable. However one of the things that really grabbed me last night was the fact that I was watching the future of New Media. The days of needing a huge budget or a large following in order to put out a successful show.
Last night me and about 200 people were watching the live show, what really got my attention was the fact that while I was watching the show I also had the ability to chat via IRC text chat with everyone else who was watching the show as well. In a way it was like all of us were sitting in the same living room and could chat without missing what was going on.
As an audience member I found this whole thing enjoyable, and since I believe that several of the people in the chat room (well one at least) was there in the ’studio’ the name of each song was announced in chat as the song started, not to mention side discussions about martial arts and headware. The idea that everything was immediate, and the chat became almost a running commentary to what was happening in the show.
As a Podcaster and a fairly observant creative person, watching this show was like a sledgehammer blow to the frontal lobe. While watching i began to see how media like this could very well forever change the way internet media, and media as whole in the long run, is judged and consumed. After watching the show and thinking about it I began to see how this would change the way I produce my shows as well as changing my show in general. I am not so blind as to think that Podcast, and by podcast I mean audio, is dying. The Podcast format is in no more danger of dying than regular radio is. I do believe that
For Part 2 got to http://www.jtindie.com/2009/02/future-of-new-media-part-2/
