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Voluntary media: BuzzMachine | Jeff Jarvis

Voluntary media: BuzzMachine | Jeff Jarvis | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Two important but too-unsung women in media — performer Amanda Palmer and Google ad exec Susan Wojcicki — met at an idea this week: that media and advertising are becoming voluntary.

 

They also touch on ideas I’ve been trying to write about: that media should be in the relationship business, not just the content business. In other words, media’s value isn’t necessarily intrinsic in content — as in, “you should pay for this product because the work to create it has value” — but can be realized in the relationships that form around content....

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The always thought-provoking Jeff Jarvis explores content and paywalls and why he doesn't think paywalls are the future.

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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now | Douglas Rushkoff

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now | Douglas Rushkoff | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

In his new book, PRESENT SHOCK: When Everything Happens Now (Current; March 15, 2013), Rushkoff introduces the phenomenon of presentism, or – since most of us are finding it hard to adapt – present shock. Alvin Toffler’s radical 1970 book, Future Shock, theorized that things were changing so fast we would soon lose the ability to cope. Rushkoff argues that the future is now and we’re contending with a fundamentally new challenge. Whereas Toffler said we were disoriented by a future that was careening toward us, Rushkoff argues that we no longer have a sense of a future, of goals, of direction at all. We have a completely new relationship to time; we live in an always-on “now,” where the priorities of this moment seem to be everything....

 

Rushkoff identifies the five main ways we’re struggling, as well as how the best of us are thriving in the now...

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Absolutely a recommended read: Presentism? Provocative preview of social media theorist Douglas Rushkoff's new book "Present Shock." 

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