The Universal: Television, The Internet and The End of Space & Time By: Jason Hammond ( [email_address] ) For: Professor David Spencer MLIS 532 University of Western Ontario Dec 5, 2006

On July 2, 2005, viewers watching the worldwide Live 8 concerts on TV saw this…

Viewers watching online saw this…

David Bauder of the Associated Press observed: “ Television seemed shockingly old-fashioned in how it followed Saturday's worldwide concert for poverty relief. AOL's coverage was so superior, it may one day be seen as a historical marker in drawing people to computers instead of TV screens for big events.” (Bauder, 2005)

“ Television seemed shockingly old-fashioned in how it followed Saturday's worldwide concert for poverty relief. AOL's coverage was so superior, it may one day be seen as a historical marker in drawing people to computers instead of TV screens for big events.” (Bauder, 2005)

The Past

For the past 50 years, television has been the dominant communication medium in our society.

The Present

We are at the beginning of the next communication revolution, a quickly accelerating one unlike any the world has seen before…

TV’s Successor? Radio took 30 years to reach an audience of 50 million people TV took 13 years The I nternet took only four, from 1997 when it first entered popular consciousness to 2001 when 9 million people alone “tuned in” to a webcast of a Madonna concert (source BBC , March 22, 2001)

Radio took 30 years to reach an audience of 50 million people

TV took 13 years

The I nternet took only four, from 1997 when it first entered popular consciousness to 2001 when 9 million people alone “tuned in” to a webcast of a Madonna concert

(source BBC , March 22, 2001)

A Brief History of Broadcasting On The Internet 1995 – first streaming audio (RealAudio) 1995 – AudioNet (later Broadcast.com) 1997 – first streaming video (RealVideo) 1998 – iFilm 1998 – Google 2005 – YouTube 2006 – Google purchases YouTube for $1.65 billion

1995 – first streaming audio (RealAudio)

1995 – AudioNet (later Broadcast.com)

1997 – first streaming video (RealVideo)

1998 – iFilm

1998 – Google

2005 – YouTube

2006 – Google purchases YouTube for $1.65 billion

On the Internet, Space and Time Disappear

Time No Longer Matters

Space No Longer Matters

Today

Resurrection

Do It Yourself

Audience Size – “One-Time”

Audience Size – Cumulative

Issues

Clearance

Copyright

English-Speaking Bias

Google Dominance

The Future

TV’s Not Dead

Traditional Media Will Come On Board …Slowly

Many To Many

Citizen Journalism

“ Broadcatching”

NewTube?

Ubiquitous Media

In Summary…

Omnipresent Media