“With the traditional media losing its monopoly on information, opinion and storytelling, all sectors of society now have the power through media and communications to make themselves heard. How can we use this new power to make the world a better place? Session Chair: Andrew Nachison, Co-Founder, iFOCOS” J. Sebastian Traeger, CEO, Razoo Jim Brady, […]

Who are the new players in the industries and will they take all the money out of it (before the existing corporations) are big points as this discussion wraps up. In countries where there is not literary tradition (print) it is oppty to create a whole new form of media consumption. In China the newspaper […]

Richard Sarnoff and William C. Weiss who laugh at being characterized as “the suits.” Digital reading goes on today, and in Japan, for example, the best-sellers are cellphone novels. There is no such thing as a print publisher today vs. digital publisher. Sarnoff: Takes issues with some storytelling comments from previous session. Book industry has […]

Audience member points out that most of the worlds’ population is illiterate. He spoke of the power of image and video as an image magnifier and that is way media is going (to video and image, from print.) What is audience’s involvement with media — world is more and more corporate and that filtered “down […]

Jeff on storytelling: “People want to play a part in their stories.” Books were seen in the past as interactive. With video and other digital images being more interactive, the book now seems passive. Roger Black: In web, “me media” you are stitching together your own story. Media may be the problem because it denies […]