Radio listening figures remain exceptionally high while other media are falling and failing left, right and centre. But the story isn't entirely rosy - younger people are moving away from the medium. Why is that, and how do radio companies innovate to meet the Facebook generation?
moreDigitisation and the growth of the Internet have had profound effects on music production, distribution and even the way we listen. Now music and sound are at the forefront of emerging technologies that can make truly immersive, sensorial experiences - akin to the Star Trek ‘holodeck’ - a step closer to reality. What does this ‘Sci-fi Hi-fi’ future hold for the musicians of tomorrow? Join Martyn Ware who will Discuss his ‘Future of Sound’.
moreMany thanks to George Grylls for taking videos of the iDesign conference on September 18. The first 23 of these have now been uploaded to YouTube.
moreKeep it simple, think about the user, and don't be afraid to think big. That was the message that four key figures in London's new media industry had for aspiring designers and artists at the sixth NMK Christmas Special. Jonn Elledge reports
moreOn 14 December 2004 Cyberia founder Eva Pascoe delivered the annual NMK Cybersalon Christmas lecture: Social Space In A Virtual World...
moreMusic has been at the vanguard of the creative industries impacted on by new technologies - digitisation and the Internet having profound effects on its production, distribution and even the way we listen. What does this ‘Sci-fi Hi-fi’ future hold for the musicians of tomorrow? Join Martyn Ware who will discuss his ‘future of sound’
moreJames Woudhuysen is Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. Join James for the Cybersalon & NMK Xmas Lecture to speculate about how media and communications technologies are interacting and impacting on society, economics, politics and culture.
moreThis year, Eva Pascoe will be giving the NMK Christmas Lecture, presented in association with Cybersalon. Cyberia, the world's first fully Internet-enabled Café opened 10 years ago in a West End backstreet, with customers who had to be taught how to use a browser and bandwidth a fraction of what we have come to expect from our computers at home. Today, there are tens of thousands of Internet Cafés across the world. Travellers and migrants populate London's, while from Baghdad to Beijing, people continue to bring machines together, in order for machines to bring people together.
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