tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post244029155291030487..comments2024-02-29T06:51:50.242+01:00Comments on Daniel Pargman's academic homepage: Future of Magazines - post-presentation reflectionspargmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-24714711290377253102012-12-12T23:10:00.232+01:002012-12-12T23:10:00.232+01:00I appreciate your answer. I am just an interested ...I appreciate your answer. I am just an interested student from the media technology program.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-16608904257502664992012-12-12T18:39:26.998+01:002012-12-12T18:39:26.998+01:00As to one, I have noted your opinion. I was to con...As to one, I have noted your opinion. I was to concentrated on the presentations to be able to judge the judges' work effort/comments. The judge you refer to was however very very helpful at an earlier event in the course ("mid-term critique").<br /><br />As to two, and something that I found the panelists/judges to have a problem with too, was this idea that every project had to be very futuristic, build on future or currently-only-available-in-labs technology. This is how we have reasoned:<br /><br />Today only 7% of all Swedes have tablets (iPad etc.). It could easily take a decade for tablets to be as widespread in Sweden as smartphones are today. When "everybody" has a tablets, there will be a lot more digital magazines. That is, some of the project groups might have suggested stuff that is possible to build tomorrow, but that would be too early as there is no market yet for these services. Peoples' habits are hard to change and it was totally ok to assume a behavioral or societal change and then think about the implications of that for (the future of) magazines!<br /><br />Last point: it would have been interesting to know just a little more about who *you* are. A student at the media technology program (who might have heard previous presentations), an industry representative, or...?pargmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17208443783482286491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7165044694341896839.post-9549040303125673472012-12-12T11:59:16.501+01:002012-12-12T11:59:16.501+01:00Although I really appreciated it to have a panel, ...Although I really appreciated it to have a panel, I find these two things noteworthy:<br /><br />- there was a judge that was supposed to be creative-thinking and "thinking inside the box from outside". What I felt after each critique was that this particular judge was the least creative-thinking person from the panel. I sometimes had the feeling that he was stuck in the past/present and forgot that the topic was the _future_ of media.<br /><br />- this directly refers to my first point. Having heard all presentations, I have the feeling that only a few projects really dealt with the _future_ of magazines. A lot of projects rather covered current or less futuristic topics, far away from thinking outside the box. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com