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Paul Levinson

Location: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 25

Title: Professor
Company: Fordham University

Bio: Paul Levinson's The Silk Code won the 2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel. He has since published Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006). His science fiction and mystery short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. His eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), and Cellphone (2004), have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into ten languages. New New Media, exploring how Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and blogging have changed our lives, was published in September 2009. Paul Levinson appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News," the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” (PBS), “Nightline” (ABC), and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. He reviews the best of television in his InfiniteRegress.tv blog. Paul Levinson is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City

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AUGUST 9, 2009 10:32AM

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With the publication of my latest book, New New Media, just weeks away (Penguin Academics will be publishing the book on 4 September 2009), I thought I would share with you the interview Dr. Howard Gluss did with me on his KFNX Radio show on June 12, 2009. It provides a 20-minute introduction to the way that Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and what I call "new new media" (including Open Salon) are changing all of us from consumers into producers, and in the process revolutionizing all aspects of our lives, from the way we watch television to the way we elect Presidents...

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Paul, congratulations on your book coming out in September. I listened to the radio interview and definitely learned some new points about your topic, including the study about the accuracy of Wikipedia. I have to admit that it's ironic that despite the book being about new new media it will be available to the public on an old old media: books!

designanator

August 09, 2009 11:41 AM

One other thought about the web sites you mention such as Amazon which you describe as "Top Down" and "New Media" as opposed to "New New Media." While it is correct that management controls the site and the products offered, the customers ultimately dictate what merchandise stays on the site and what may be eliminated by virtue of the power of their spending patterns.

designanator

August 09, 2009 11:55 AM

True, but customers also decide via purchasing patterns what goes on the shelves of the old medium of the bookstore.

The key to new new media is customers literally becoming creators of content.

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On New New Media being available via the old medium of books - it will also be available via the new medium of the Kindle :)

Paul Levinson

August 09, 2009 02:49 PM

Paul, Congratulations on you upcoming book release!
I wish you the best.....thanks for the podcast..I found it very interesting and optimistic in its outlook.....