cmi openweb - sustainable media ecosystems

This is a geographic locative media population migration research project investigating possible correlations between the historic out-migration of residents of Pittsburgh, PA and the numbers of Pittsburgh Steelers themed restaurants and bars around the United States today. The project was spawned during discussions of the large numbers of ex-steel workers and their families leaving Pittsburgh during and in the decades after the fall of the U.S. steel industry and the resulting closing of the steel mills during the 1980s.

JOURNALISM (new²) MEDIA

New media as (arguably natural) extension to new new journalism

"(Tom Wolfe) was appropriating the upper-class literary tools of fiction and poetry and using them to ornament his lower-class magazine and newspaper journalism. It was as though he was using the good silver to slop the hogs. In American literary culture, all hell broke loose." -Cary Tennis, www.salon.com

The focus of this academic paper is to investigate the far reaching influences of new media being used today on  writing. Due to the elucidated literary blur henceforth discussed in this thesis, in consideration of greater writers before me and the rhetorical breakthroughs to their credit, I will examine most closely in these pages the genre of writing commonly referred to as New Journalism. At one point I will take the liberty of inserting a certain work of fiction by Richard Brautigan entitled Trout Fishing In America to have direct relevancy to the project, if not only in the process in which it was created, but the story line which is left for the reader to enjoy.  I have in the past, and do currently work both as a poet, as a traditional  American journalist, and as a digital technician on the internet. I am interested in the melding of compositional forms all the between, and, due to the applicable uses of emerging technology, the fitting extensions therein for which new media allow. There will never come a time when we are rendered with no new way to tell a story. Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, and Richard Brautigan each broke the rules of their game. I always have, and always will do the same. Onward!… 

University of Denver, Colorado

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