Tablets | The Transition to Digital Journalism While cellphones have become ubiquitous as mobile devices, it's been a much longer road to popularity for tablet computers - portable electronic devices that try to fill a void between tiny screen cellphones and more cumbersome laptops. Roger Fidler was one of the original proponents of these portable "electronic tablets" when he ran the Knight Ridder Information Design Lab in the early 1990s. See this story and this 1994 video showing Fidler's vision (Fidler is now at the Reynolds Journalism Institute as Program Director for Digital Publishing). Many companies subsequently produced various forms of tablet computers as reading devices, such as the SoftBook and the Rocket eBook in the late 1990s and Sony's e-book readers in the mid to late 2000s. But most of the devices failed to gain much traction with consumers. Then with Amazon's release of the popular Kindle e-book reader in late 2007, buzz about portable tablet computers heated up again. Apple's iPad announced in January 2010.
Information behaviour of New York City subway commuters Irene Lopatovska with Alexandra S. Basen, Anshuman M. Duneja, Helen Kwong, Denise L. Pasquinelli, Sarah Sopab, Brian J. Introduction According to the 2000 US Census, of the 128,279,228 Americans age 16 and older who commute to work, 6,067,703 use the subways (U.S. We applied a number of methods, including observation, interview, and survey to examine the types and purposes of information devices used on New York City subways. The article reviews relevant studies of travellers' behaviour, describes methods used in our research, reports and discusses results, and outlines directions for future investigations of commuters' information behaviour. Relevant literature One of the few classifications of commuters' information activities can be found in Flamm (2005). Several classifications of commuters' activities are reviewed in Brossard et al. (2009). Similar classification is mentioned in the Akesson and Nilsson (2002) study. Methods What information activities do commuters engage in? Figure 2.
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NYTimes for iPad A Better Letter To New York Times Readers About Digital Subscriptions Today, the New York Times is taking a major step forward as we introduce digital subscriptions in the United States and the rest of the world. Since we first announced the plan 11 days ago, we’ve heard from so many of you, our readers. We’ve also heard from a bunch of noisy bloggers, but they just rip us off anyway, so we’re ignoring them. We’re grateful for the feedback from our loyal readers (not those blogger brats) and, most of all, for your commitment to the The Times. As you may know, on March 17, we introduced digital subscriptions in Canada. Officially, the Canadian launch allowed us to test our systems and fine-tune the user interface and customer experience. Memorize These Print Subscription Costs! If you are a home delivery subscriber of The Times [we like to say "The Times" as if there are no other "Times" newspapers out there], you will continue to have full and free access to our news, information, opinion and other features on your computer, smartphone and tablet. Yes.
Le iPad, sauveur de la presse écrite ? | Magazine FORCES Le jour du lancement du iPad, plusieurs éditeurs de quotidiens et de magazines étaient présents sur la boutique en ligne AppStore. En effet, le iPad permet aux éditeurs de commercialiser leurs contenus en passant outre le Web. Contre espèces sonnantes et trébuchantes, l’utilisateur du iPad peut dorénavant télécharger une application qui lui ouvrira les portes de l’information numérique. La reproduction à l’écran de la mise en pages papier, entre autres des magazines Time et Paris Match ou du quotidien USA Today, est somptueuse. Le célèbre consultant en matière d’information Jeff Jervis, passée une courte période d’émerveillement devant le iPad, a rapidement déploré l’absence d’interactivité, et prône le retour au modèle rassurant pour les éditeurs : celui des médias de masse et de la diffusion classique. Pour de nombreux observateurs des médias, seule une véritable stratégie de diversification drainera à nouveau des revenus. Le iPad Un concept inventé… en 1968
Le site du New York Times amorce son changement de look | Après USA Today, c’est un autre des grands journaux américains qui tente de faire peau neuve sur le web. Le prototype lancé par le New York Times veut s’adapter aux évolutions du journalisme numérique et aux nouvelles habitudes des lecteurs. Ravalement de façade au NYTtimes.com ! Le quotidien américain a dévoilé le 13 mars dernier les visuels d’un prototype de la nouvelle version de son site web. Un nouveau design épuré qui met en avant les visuels Pour ce faire, le journal a choisi de donner à son prototype une apparence plus propre et aérée que celle du site actuel. À gauche, un article visible sur le prototype. La forme des papiers est d’ailleurs flexible en fonction des sujets. Ce nouveau look très épuré n’est pas sans rappeler celui des applications pour appareils mobiles. Une navigation facilitée et personnalisée Et comme sur les applications mobiles, le prototype cherche à simplifier le déplacement des internautes sur le site. L’importance donnée à la parole des internautes
Mobile Devices and News Consumption: Some Good Signs for Journalism By Amy Mitchell & Tom Rosenstiel of PEJ, and Leah Christian of the Pew Research Center Each of these technologies offers a separate set of features, conveniences and potential uses. But less is known to date about how people use these devices — whether they behave differently on different platforms and what the move to mobile might mean for news and journalism and the notion of a common experience or public square. Past research found much of the desktop news experience was built around search — people looking for what they need or want to know right now, which tilted influence (and revenue) toward aggregators such as Google. To what degree is that true in mobile? Have apps (or applications) and social media networks altered that? A new survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that rather than gravitating toward one device, a growing number of Americans are becoming multiplatform digital news consumers. Ownership
Will The New York Times Redesign Lead To A New Web Standard? The latest conversation in web design has been, how do we reimagine the web for a mobile device? Do you design your mobile site first, then supersize it for PCs? Or do you wrap all that content in an app and bring special functionality to tablets? For most websites, it’s an ongoing debate between aesthetics and user experience. But for the New York Times, the stakes are much higher. “We want to make sure we’re shaping our journalism in a way that does not reflect a bias to a particular medium or format,” Ian Adelman tells Co.Design. Skeptics will call the redesign mobile-first me-tooism, but it’s about more than that. You Could Call It Societal Appification At first glance, you may confuse NYT’s prototype for a downloadable app (though in fact, its apps are entirely different products). “Certainly, for some elements of the interface for this web experience, some people have said they’re ‘influenced by mobile,'” Adelman says. In other words, the New York Times didn’t change alone.