Parmeet's Podcasts

I have been reading blogs for years, and started my own blog earlier this year. Blogs can be thought of as personalized web pages where the owner of the web page shares and writes about anything they want to. I've been introduced to the concept of wikis through this class, and have come to understand them as collaborative web pages where anyone - as long as they're allowed - can post and edit content. People have taken advantage of wikis, and posted false information, which led to Wikipedia limiting changes on articles on people. Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People, published in The New York Times, mentioned "Under the current system, it is not difficult to insert false information into a Wikipedia entry, at least for a short time". Convergence is extremely important as it allows the knowledge of a group to be greater than the sum of its parts. Even though convergence and collaboration are terms we might associate with wikis more so than blogs, if utili...

     I will be conducting research on the history and future of podcasts. Podcasts are one form of new media and can be thought of as the modern version of radios. People of various ages, ethnicities, academic backgrounds and genders, all listen to podcasts as there is a wealth of audio content out there to keep everyone engaged and entertained. In my term paper, I will be researching about the emergence of podcasts, how they have evolved since they were first introduced and what the future looks like for the industry. At the end of the day, podcasting is also a business, which is why I'll be looking at the growth of the industry's value, along with merger/acquisition activity in the space. Different parts of the world have different reactions to each form of media, and I will try to discuss where podcasting has been successful and what has led to that. Apart from reading fact-based and opinionated articles, I will try to incorporate the perspectives of people involved ...