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Difficult challenge: specifying what constitutes a news-focused media lab. With the popularity of the term, it has become common to find a host of institutions named under this umbrella term. To name a few, there are digital media and advertising agencies, branded content institutions, university newsrooms (focused on daily coverage), community centers, media literacy efforts, and experimental and interdisciplinary labs focused on process, product, and other innovations.
Moreover, these institutions are not always focused a complete list of unit mobile number database on the traditional media sector: many have a broader view of what constitutes media (influenced by the MIT Media Lab's vision). Previous research suggests that media labs tend to be interdisciplinary institutions—like the MIT Media Lab, which prides itself on being "anti-disciplinary"—focused on research, development, and innovation with a broader sense of media and possibly with very diverse methodological approaches.
So while we are still searching for a precise definition of “media labs” that reflects the similarities between these new initiatives, one way to think about it is to examine their role in this changing media landscape. Do we see media labs as spaces that foster a new culture of experimentation in journalism and a place of learning? Or as an institution that offers replicable products focused on competing in this market?
Moreover, these institutions are not always focused a complete list of unit mobile number database on the traditional media sector: many have a broader view of what constitutes media (influenced by the MIT Media Lab's vision). Previous research suggests that media labs tend to be interdisciplinary institutions—like the MIT Media Lab, which prides itself on being "anti-disciplinary"—focused on research, development, and innovation with a broader sense of media and possibly with very diverse methodological approaches.
So while we are still searching for a precise definition of “media labs” that reflects the similarities between these new initiatives, one way to think about it is to examine their role in this changing media landscape. Do we see media labs as spaces that foster a new culture of experimentation in journalism and a place of learning? Or as an institution that offers replicable products focused on competing in this market?