Old Lies, New Media

Media Matter: But "Old" Media May Matter More Than "New" Media.

Old Media, New Media Sources: The Blogosphere's Influence on Print Media News Coverage

This paper contributes to the growing literature on how “new media” is influencing “old media” by tracking references to an extensive list of political blogs in stories run by seventeen prominent print media outlets during the last ten years. The findings presented here show that although journalists frequently use political bloggers as sources in their news coverage, they only reference certai...

Would I lie to you? Self-serving lies and other-oriented lies told across different media

This study set out to investigate in which type of media individuals are more likely to tell self-serving and other-oriented lies, and whether this varied according to the recipient of the lie. One hundred and fifty participants rated on a likert-point scale how likely they would tell a lie. Participants were more likely to tell self-serving lies to people not well-known to them. They were more...

Digital natives? New and old media and children’s outcomes

The current generation of young children has been described as ‘digital natives’, having been born into a ubiquitous digital media environment. They are envisaged as educationally independent of the guided interaction provided by ‘digital immigrants’: parents and teachers. This article uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) to study the development of vocabulary and...

City: A Mixture of Old and New Media

The majority of the chapters in this book describe what might nowadays be called ‘traditional’ inhabited information spaces: collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) or virtual worlds. Although not all CVEs centre on computer–rendered 3D graphics, the paradigmatic CVE does so. Shared 3D virtual environments are emblematic of CVE research, but have only gained public acceptance in the form of c...