Emerging Media by Jeff McAvoy

Emerging Media

This is just a demo map that you can delete right away, if you feel like it...

Augmented Reality

Real Life, Enhanced

Physical world interacting with virtual content

Hold Virtual Content in your hands

Geo-Everything

Foursquare

Facebook Places

Gowalla

Google Buzz

Mobile

Smart phones

iPad

iPod Touch

Gaming

Education Applications

Social Media

Foursquare

Facebook

YouTube

Twitter

LinkedIn

New node

Potential Pros

Increased Connectivity

Instant Access to Information

Increased mobility

Access to information

Potential Cons

Shorter Attention Spans

Children's inability to distinguish between reality and virtual reality

Loss of face to face interactions

Gaming addictions

eReaders

Kindle

Nook

iPad