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Connections and clashes between new and old media, as told by interviewees ranging from the founder of Twitter to the publisher of the New York Times.

Mainstream media, often known simply as MSM, have not yet disappeared in a digital takeover of the media landscape. But the long-dominant MSM--television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and books--have had to respond to emergent digital media. Newspapers have interactive Web sites; television broadcasts over the Internet; books are published in both electronic and print editions. In Designing Media , design guru Bill Moggridge examines connections and conflicts between old and new media, describing how the MSM have changed and how new patterns of media consumption are emerging. The book features interviews with thirty-seven significant figures in both traditional and new forms of mass communication; interviewees range from the publisher of the New York Times to the founder of Twitter. We learn about innovations in media that rely on contributions from a crowd (or a community), as told by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Craigslist's Craig Newmark; how the band OK Go built a following using YouTube; how real-time connections between dispatchers and couriers inspired Twitter; how a BusinessWeek blog became a quarterly printed supplement to the magazine; and how e-readers have evolved from Rocket eBook to QUE. Ira Glass compares the intimacy of radio to that of the Internet; the producer of PBS's Frontline supports the program's investigative journalism by putting documentation of its findings online; and the developers of Google's Trendalyzer software describe its beginnings as animations that accompanied lectures about social and economic development in rural Africa. At the end of each chapter, Moggridge comments on the implications for designing media. Designing Media is illustrated with hundreds of images, with color throughout. A DVD accompanying the book includes excerpts from all of the interviews, and the material can be browsed at www.designing-media.com.

Interviews with:
Chris Anderson, Rich Archuleta, Blixa Bargeld, Colin Callender, Fred Deakin, Martin Eberhard, David Fanning, Jane Friedman, Mark Gerzon, Ira Glass, Nat Hunter, Chad Hurley, Joel Hyatt, Alex Juhasz, Jorge Just, Alex MacLean, Bob Mason, Roger McNamee, Jeremy Merle, Craig Newmark, Bruce Nussbaum, Alice Rawsthorn, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Paul Saffo, Jesse Scanlon, DJ Spooky, Neil Stevenson, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Shinichi Takemura, James Truman, Jimmy Wales, Tim Westergren, Ev Williams, Erin Zhu, Mark Zuckerberg

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CHOICE Review

Designing Media focuses on the current and future state of media both as a polyglot of things and as a collection of concepts. The work cuts a wide swath across current media discourse. Noted designer Moggridge (director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum) does not select materials/content to agree with a set message, but instead selects them to provide a diversity of opinions on a diversity of topics. He comfortably presents viewpoints divergent from his own and openly acknowledges that some very successful new media are, in his own view, bad ideas. Structurally, the work is a collection of excerpts with commentary from 30+ interviews with individuals at the forefront of various aspects of media and design. They range from Ira Glass to DJ Spooky, Mark Zuckerberg, and Arthur Sulzberger Jr. It is this collection of interviews that makes the book an important one. The interviews are also excerpted with transcripts on the accompanying DVD and presented in full on a Web site . The Web site allows viewers to browse the book by individual chapters or interviews, and download the chapters as PDF files and the interviews as QuickTime files. Summing Up; Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professionals; general audiences. P. L. Kantor Southern Vermont College