As mentioned previously on this blog, the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Information and Media Studies will be hosting a conference on Digital Labo(u)r, October 16-18, 2009.
I will be in attendance at the conference and will blog coverage of it here, including notes on sessions and other happenings of potential interest to the readership.
If you can't make it to Canada, stay tuned here for reports from the event.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Murdoch on Digital Journalism: The Ultimate Union-Buster
One must at least admire Rupert Murdoch for his unabashed franchise. The Financial Times reports that Murdoch, in a seeming about-face, has come to herald the new era of Kindle and other similar electronic newsreading devices from a truly pragmatic standpoint. Although he predicts up to 20 years for the devices to surmount the current paper and ink industry, Murdoch waxes rhapsodic on the future portended by such a shift:
"'Then we’re going to have no paper, no printing plants, no unions,' said Mr Murdoch, who battled printing unions at his Wapping plant in London more than 20 years ago. 'It’s going to be great.'"
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