Web Resources...

http://www.artsengine.net/

http://www.mediarights.org/

Long live Print, Long live Newspapers

Old habits die hard. This is probably one reason that I am an avid newspaper reader. I do not remember a day without newspaper(s). In an era of convergence and global commercial media market, it's being debated whether newspaper as a medium of mass information will survive or disappear.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_alterman?currentPage=all

http://www.deathofprint.co.uk/

http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2008/12/the_print_media_are_doomed.html

http://navneet-anand.blogspot.com/

http://damnpeskyindiekid.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/the-death-of-print/

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0002/okrent.htm

McLuhan predicted annihilation of the printed word and yet his books were read by millions. The debate will continue. Newspapers will survive till the time newspapers continues to give what it requires to give to its readers: fairness, objectivity, diversity of opinions. Beyond that the distinct attributes of newspaper as a medium will assure that newspaper survives. And newspapers will survive till the time there are avid newspapers readers like me.

Listen to Todd Oppenheimer, author of The Flickering Mind

An estimated $70 billion was spent on school computers in the '90s. But do computer-savvy students necessarily become better-educated adults? In his book The Flickering Mind, Todd Oppenheimer says technology in the classroom can get in the way of the learning process. (Listen)

Television: The Last Mass Medium

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Source: The Economist (May 10th, 2010)

Women in Malayalam Cinema...

Women in Malayalam Cinema: Naturalising Gender Hierarchies (Orient Blackswan 2010) by Dr. Meena T. Pillai is a latest academic discourse on the reality behind the representation of women in Malayalam Cinema.

Dr. Meena T. Pillai is Reader at the Institute of English, and Director, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram (India). Dr. Pillai holds a doctorate degree in American literature with a Fulbright to Ohio State University and was a Shastri Fellow at the Film School in the University of Concordia, Montreal and a Commonwealth Fellows at the Media School in Sussex University.

For more on the book read 'Reel reality' by Bhawani Cheerath, The Hindu, April 06, 2010.

Watch Video Online....

On the eve World Environment Day on June 05, 2010, here is a modest attempt to draw our attention on the extent of human interventions on the face of our planet. The movie was conceptualized and produced by Invis Multimedia for its online video encyclopedia project, www.indiavideo.org launched in association with UNESCO, New Delhi Office. The video clips are by Suresh Elamon, Naturalist, Wildlife Photographer and Filmmaker. If you are keen to know more more about Chola Nayikkans or the birds portrayed, contact Suresh Elamon at yeselamon@gmail.com.

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Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier