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Newport Now interviews media guru Paul Levinson
Mon, 02/01/2010 - 11:37am — jmcdaid
Media theorist Paul Levinson says some very smart things about digital culture in his new book "New New Media," and local news site Newport Now did a nice review and interview over the weekend that makes for fun reading (that touches on some of the digital-vs-print journalism questions that are very timely.) No link to Amazon (you can google for that) but you can find more on Levinson's blog here.
Full disclosure: Paul was a professor of mine in grad school, and I think he is very smart about this stuff.
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