The new media industry references
References
Ahonen, T. & Moore, A. 2005, Communities Dominate Brands, UK, FutureText
Anderson, C. 2006, The Long Tail, New York, Random House. The original Wired magazine article, which was the foundation of this concept can be found at: [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html].
Australian Government report on the digital games industry [http://www.culture.gov.au/articles/digitalgames/index.htm].
Digital Economy: [http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/books/factbook_2006.pdf].
Future of the Book: [http://www.futureofthebook.org.uk/ifbook20report_final.pdf ].
Games industry: [http://www.gdaa.com.au/docs/GDAA_Industry_Profile_Report_221106.pdf].
Interview with Fionnuala Duggan:
[http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/49429-will-2008-be-the-year-of-the-e-book.html].
McLuhan, M. 1964, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, McGraw-Hill Critical edition published by Gingko Press in 2003.
Report on the spending on games: [http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/06/how_much_do_we_spend_on_games_between_the_ages_of_1848-2.html].
Further reading
Books on mobile in Japan: [http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/01/72329].
Communities Dominate Brands. A great blog on all things GenC related with a specific focus on mobile: [http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/].
Jaffe Juice from Joseph Jaffe, author of Join the Conversation: [http://www.jaffejuice.com/].
Mark Neely’s blog on the more business side of the digital world: [http://www.infolution.com.au/]
Miranda Forwood, games and mobile:
[http://www.women.qld.gov.au/work-and-life/smart-state-awards/documents/miranda-forwood.pdf].
MoCoNews – sister site to Paid Content with information specifically about the mobile industry.
Paid Content is an excellent online resource about developments in the realm of paid content:
[http://www.paidcontent.org/]
More on
MMORPGs: [http://www.gameogre.com/]
Pong: [http://www.pong-story.com/]
Space invaders: [http://www.spaceinvaders.de/]
Kindle: [http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA].
There are other mobile-specific blogs, social media blogs, games blogs and Internet blogs – but the above are useful starting points.
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