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A Conversation with Nicholas Carr and Jon Fine

The author of The Big Switch and Does IT Matter? on new media and new business opportunities

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Nick Carr takes a bird's-eye view of the media business. Based on his analysis of the industrial revolution, he is able to authoritatively take on some of the most provocative issues in journalism and new media.

Can citizen journalists really do the job of professionals, and if so, what will happen to mainstream media? Will journalism become more like Wikipedia, a crowd-sourced, user-generated free-for-all? What gets lost when print publications go online?

Nicholas Carr, a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. His new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the future of computing and its implications for business and society. His previous book, Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business.

Jon Fine is the media columnist for BusinessWeek and an on-air contributor to CNBC.

DURATION/TIME
5 videos
52 minutes total running time
 

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1.

From Grid to Cloud
Nicholas Carr's recent book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, compares today’s growing, universal availability of low-cost and high-powered information processing (also known as "cloud computing") to the electrification of the Western economy. What does this mean for today's media? Carr discusses user-generated content and revisits his controversial theory of the amorality of Web 2.0.

 14:56 21 MB
2.

New (Media) Journalism
What can the web do well? Carr discusses crowd-sourcing, citizen journalism, and the divide between the amateur versus the professional. What are we losing as newspapers move online?

 10:47 21 MB
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New Opportunities
Which companies have made successful transitions online? Where are the new business opportunities?

 9:37 20 MB
4. Web 2.0
How and why did some companies fail to harness the web effectively at the dawn of Web 2.0? How do we balance privacy and possibilities for individuals? 		11:18 21 MB
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Q&A
What is the future of banner ads? Will cloud computing cause an economic upheaval? Is the digital divide getting bigger or smaller? Will traditional media give the keys to users to be the main source of content?

 6:38 19 MB