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In this episode of Media Nouveau, we examine PatientsLikeMe, a new media platform that rests at the unlikely intersection of social media and scientific research. What are the implications of publicizing personal health data and applying it to a healthcare setting? We address issues of collective intelligence, HIPAA regulations, and protection of pre-existing conditions in order to explore this question and to reflect on the contributions of PatientsLikeMe regarding patient-centered care and biomedical research.

Castellucci, Maria. “Leveraging online platforms to measure how patients feel.” Modern Healthcare.

Edwards, Jim. “PatientsLikeMe Is More Villain Than Victim in Patient Data “Scraping” Scandal.” CBS News, CBS Interactive, 18 Oct. 2010.

Pai, Aditi. “Survey: Despite risks, patients want to share data.” MobiHealthNews, 25 Jan. 2014.

“PatientsLikeMe and Shire Pharmaceuticals Collaborate to Study Rare Genetic Diseases.” Business Wire, 10 Apr. 2017.

Surowiecki, James. “The Collective Intelligence of the Web.” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 20 June 2017.

In our podcast we explore the new media phenomenon that has quickly become a legitimate industry. This is Vlogging. We look at vlogger Casey Neistat who has amassed such a following since his beginning his daily vlog series and what makes him so popular and unique. We also look at some barriers to entry in the current vlogging industry and how Casey specifically has been able to overcome these new obstacles. Lastly, we establish the history behind daily vlogs and how our obsession with other people’s lives paved the way for vloggers today. The New Media concepts that are specifically highlighted are these barriers to entry as well as the spreadibility of media as vlogging provides a wide platform for information. We hope you enjoy the show.

caseyneistat. “HOW TO VLOG LIKE CASEY NEISTAT by CASEY NEISTAT.” YouTube, 8 June 2017.

Marcus, Stephanie. “A Brief History of 9 Popular Blogging Platforms.” Mashable, 5 Aug. 2010.

Nerdwriter1. “CASEY NEISTAT: WHAT YOU DON’T SEE.” YouTube, 3 Aug. 2016.

Betches is a multimodal new media brand that has become very popular among millennial women. In our podcast we analyze the ways in which Betches uses the principles of new media to enhance its experience and why Betches would not work in an old media world. We chose to focus on the key terms narrowcasting and stickiness, as described by Jenkins and Creeber, and how Betches uses these new media techniques.

In this episode, we analyze BuzzFeed as a New Media publication. We discuss BuzzFeed’s user experience with our personal experiences. With the materials published on BuzzFeed and the articles we have collected, we analyze whether BuzzFeed could be viewed as a real high-quality journalism standard, how BuzzFeed, as a form of New Media, differentiates itself from Old media, and where BuzzFeed would take us to in the future. Hope you enjoy this!

CNN: “What’s the Future of BuzzFeed News?”

This week’s episode of Media Nouveau takes a look at My Favorite Murder, a comedic true-crime podcast hosted by two women who think there’s nothing more interesting than a good murder. In this episode, we will be examining how the genre of true crime has been altered by new media, especially My Favorite Murder, and the ways feminism tie in to the participatory culture of the podcast. Specifically, we discuss the ways in which new media such as MFM has allowed “women’s genres” to become more than just niche books and television shows.

Marks, Andrea. “How a True-Crime Podcast Became a Mental-Health Support Group”

Fitzpatrick, Molly. “How Two Hilarious Women Turned a Comedy-Murder Podcast Into a Phenomenon”

Hirschman Weiss, Shira. “Summer’s Surprising Hit Podcast: My Favorite Murder”

Stewart, Allison. “My Favorite Murder and the Growing Acceptance of True-Crime Entertainment”

Chris Weller. “Young Women Are the Biggest True Crime Buffs — Here’s Why”

Kyriazis, Stefan. “Why Are Women More Bloodthirsty Than Men? Why Do They Love Crime and Murder Books So Much?”

Vicary, Amanda M. & Fraley, R. Chris. “Captured By True Crime: Why Are Women Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers?”

“Cameo Appearance” by Small Tall Order

Jobs for Felons

This episode is an analysis of Soul Pancake in relation to spreadability as described by Henry Jenkins in “Why Media Spreads.” We examined elements such as participatory culture, narrowcasting and marketing in order to answer regarding the role of spreadability in a new media context and its significance in industry production.

Green, Joshua, and Henry Jenkins. “Spreadable Media: How Audiences Create Value and Meaning in a Networked Economy.” The Handbook of Media Audiences, 2011.

Jenkins, Henry, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green. “Why Media Spreads.” Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green. NYUP, 2013.

“Kitten Therapy: The Prescription for Stress” Soulpancake. YouTube, 11 Nov. 2014. Accessed 21 Sept. 2017

Alfrink, Kars . “Looking forward to tonight’s pancakes.” Flickr, 28 Oct. 2007. Accessed 21 Sept. 2017

In this episode of Media Nouveau, we explore how the news and media sharing website reddit fits into the New Media landscape. Reddit provides a scaffold for its users to curate, spread, and comment on posts, while promoting an open, respectful environment for free speech. We set out to analyze the qualities of reddit that define it as new media, as opposed to old media, and to criticize the implications of its radical free speech. At first glance, reddit is a confusing, messy, and often silly place. We hope to demystify its role in popular culture and successfully unpack the chaotic part it plays in the ever-changing media sphere.

Young, Taras. “Reddit, sub-reddits and AMAs: A guide for arts, culture, and heritage”

Millner, Caille. “Gawker, Reddit can show the Internet how to play nice”

Branstetter, Jillian. “How Reddit ate the news media”

Morris, Kevin. “The greatest story Reddit ever told”

Romano, Aja. “Trump’s anti-CNN tweet originated from Reddit’s largest right-wing extremist forum”

Lagorio-Chafkin, Christine. “Reddit and the God Emperor of the Internet”

Silverman, Matt. “Reddit: a beginner’s guide”

Jenkins, Henry, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green. “Why Media Spreads.” Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green. NYUP, 2013.

Creeber, Glen. “Theorizing New Media” from Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media, edited by Glen Creeber and Royston Martin. McGraw Hill. 2009.

Heidlas, Nicolai. “Happy Chances.”