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I want to talk about the transformed media landscape , and what it means for anybody who has a message they want to get out to anywhere in the world. 我谈谈变化中的媒体前景, 现时人们可以使用媒介 以在世界任何一个地方进行分享。
transformed:v.使改变形态;使改变外观(或性质);(transform的过去分词和过去式) media:n.媒体;媒质(medium的复数);血管中层;浊塞音;中脉; landscape:n.景观;乡村风景画;(文件的)横向打印格式;v.对…做景观美化;美化…的环境;
And I want to illustrate that by telling a couple of stories about that transformation . 我通过一些关于此变化的故事 来解释。
illustrate:v.解释;加插图于;给(书等)做图表;表明…真实; transformation:n.转变;(用于南非)民主改革;
I'll start here. Last November there was a presidential election. 首先,去年11月举办的美国总统选举。
presidential:adj.总统的;首长的;统辖的;
You probably read something about it in the papers. 你可能在报纸上读到一些新闻。
And there was some concern that in some parts of the country there might be voter suppression . 在美国各地出现了 选票竞争的问题。
concern:v.涉及,关系到;使担心;n.关系;关心;关心的事; voter:n.选举人,投票人;有投票权者; suppression:n.抑制;镇压;[植]压抑;
And so a plan came up to video the vote. 有个计划是视频录像选举。
And the idea was that individual citizens with phones capable of taking photos or making video would document their polling places, on the lookout for any kind of voter suppression techniques . 这个点子是, 每个市民通过有拍照和摄像功能手机 来记录他们的选举场地, 去监督任何选票竞争的公平性。
individual:n.个人;有个性的人;adj.单独的;个别的; capable:adj.能干的,能胜任的;有才华的; polling:n.投票;民意测验;v.获得(票数);对…进行民意调查;(poll的现在分词) on the lookout for:寻觅;注视着,警惕着; techniques:n.技巧;技艺;工艺;技术;(technique的复数)
And would upload this to a central place. 可以上传到一个[网络]核心位置。
upload:v.上传;
And that this would operate as a kind of citizen observation . 这是一种公民观察监督类型的操作。
observation:n.观察;观测;监视;(尤指据所见、所闻、所读而作的)评论;
That citizens would not be there just to cast individual votes. 公民不仅仅只是行使个体公民选举。
But also to help insure the sanctity of the vote overall . 也是帮助确保整个选举的神圣。
insure:v.投保;给…保险;接受投保;承保; sanctity:n.圣洁;尊严;神圣不可侵犯性; overall:v.全部; n.外套; adj.全面的;
So this is a pattern that assumes we're all in this together. 这也确保了我们必须一起行使选举的形式。
assumes:v.假定;采用;承担;呈;(assumes是assume的第三人称单数)
What matters here isn't technical capital. 这重要的 不是技术层面。
technical:adj.工艺的,科技的;技术上的;专门的;
It's social capital. 而是社会层面的。
These tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring . 这些工具除非技术应用好才会在社会上越来 越有趣。不至于乏味。
technologically:adv.科技地;技术上地; boring:adj.无聊的;令人厌烦的;n.钻孔;v.使厌烦;钻孔;(bore的现在分词)
It isn't when the shiny new tools show up that their uses start permeating society. 也不是要等到令人瞩目的新技术闪亮登场, 他们的使用才开始遍布社会。
shiny:adj.闪亮的;光亮的;反光的;有光泽的; permeating:vt.渗透,透过;弥漫;vi.弥漫;透入;散布;
It's when everybody is able to take them for granted. 而是每一个人开始意识到这是必然的。
Because now that media is increasingly social, innovation can happen anywhere that people can take for granted the idea that we're all in this together. 因为现在媒体迅速社会化, 创新在任何一个地方发生 人们可以想当然地认为我们都是身处其中。
increasingly:adv.越来越多地;渐增地; innovation:n.创新,革新;新方法; take for granted:认为…理所当然;
And so we're starting to see a media landscape in which innovation is happening everywhere. 所以我们开始看到媒体前景 的创新在任何地方发生。
And moving from one spot to another. 从一个地方发展到另一个地方。
That is a huge transformation. 这是巨大的转变。
Not to put too fine a point on it, the moment we're living through, the moment our historical generation is living through is the largest increase in expressive capability in human history. 不用列举更多,我们 处在历史发展中的一代人,在生活中 在人类历史中,表达能力是突出 增强的。
historical:adj.历史的;史学的;基于史实的; expressive:adj.表现的;有表现力的;表达…的; capability:n.才能,能力;性能,容量;
Now that's a big claim . I'm going to try to back it up. 现在有个大要求。我说明一下。
claim:v.要求;声称;需要;认领;n.要求;声称;索赔;断言;值得;
There are only four periods in the last 500 years where media has changed enough to qualify for the label Revolution . 在过去的500年至少有4个阶段 媒体发生很大变化,带有标志产品的变革。
qualify for:合格;有…的资格; label:n.标签;标记;谓;唱片公司;v.贴标签于;用标签标明; Revolution:n.革命;旋转;运行;循环;
The first one is the famous one, the printing press . 第一种是有名的,出版媒介。
printing press:n.印刷机;
Movable type, oil-based inks, that whole complex of innovations that made printing possible and turned Europe upside-down , starting in the middle of the 1400s. 可携带的,油墨,创新的整合 使出版印刷可行 在15世纪的中期,开始从上至下转变欧洲。
Movable:adj.动产的;可移动的;不固定的;n.动产;可移动的东西; oil-based:adj.油基的; complex:adj.复杂的;合成的;n.复合体;综合设施; innovations:n.创新(innovation的复数);改革; upside-down:adj.颠倒的;乱七八糟的;
Then a couple of hundred years ago there was innovation in two way communication. 然后几百年过去 有两种交流媒体创新。
Conversational media, first the telegraph , then the telephone. 会话式的媒介,第一是电报,接下来是电话。
Conversational:adj.对话的;健谈的; telegraph:n.[通信]电报机,电报;vt.电汇;流露出;打电报给…;vi.打电报;
Slow, text based conversations, then real-time voice based conversations. 慢,文本输入的会话, 接着即时语音的会话。
real-time:adj.实时的;接到指示立即执行的;
Then, about 150 years ago, there was a revolution in recorded media other than print. 然后,大概150年以前, 除了印刷,在记录媒体有个转变。
First photos, then recorded sound, then movies, all encoded onto physical objects. 首先照片,然后录制声音, 然后电影,所有都转变为有形实体的编码。
encoded:adj.[计]编码的;v.把…编码(encode的过去分词); physical:adj.[物]物理的;身体的;物质的;符合自然法则的;n.体格检查;
And finally about 100 years ago, the harnessing of electromagnetic spectrum to send sound and images through the air, radio and television. 最后大概100年前,电磁光谱的应用 开始通过空气,录音机,电视传播声音和视图。
finally:adv.终于;最终;(用于列举)最后;彻底地; harnessing:v.给(马等)装上挽具(harness的现在分词);治理,利用; electromagnetic:adj.电磁的; spectrum:n.光谱;频谱;范围;余象; images:n.印象;声誉;形象;画像;雕像;(image的第三人称单数和复数)
This is the media landscape as we knew it in the 20th century. 这是我们所知道的20世纪的媒体前景。
This is what those of us of a certain age grew up with, and are used to. 那是我们有一定岁数的人成长和经历过 的年代。
But there is a curious asymmetry here. 但是很奇怪这有个不对应的关系。
curious:adj.好奇的,有求知欲的;古怪的;爱挑剔的; asymmetry:n.不对称;
The media that is good at creating conversations is no good at creating groups. 媒体在交谈会话方面好, 但没有群体组织。
And that's good at creating groups is no good at creating conversations. 要是好在群体组织方面, 她又不适合交谈会话。
If you want to have a conversation in this world, you have it with one other person. 如果在世界上你想有个会话, 你和另外一个人会话。
If you want to address a group, you get the same message and you give it to everybody in the group. 如果你想建个组织,你得到同样的信息 你传递给组织里的每一个人。
Whether you're doing that with a broadcasting tower or a printing press. 不管你是和广播机构或者印刷出版社做那些。
That was the media landscape as we had it in the twentieth century. 这都是 20世纪我们有的媒体前景。
And this is what changed. 这已经变化了。
This thing that looks like a peacock hit a windscreen is Bill Cheswick's map of the Internet. 这种事看上去像孔雀开屏占了挡风玻璃 是Bill Cheswick的网络图。
peacock:n.孔雀;雄孔雀;爱虚荣的人;vi.炫耀;神气活现地走; windscreen:n.汽车挡风玻璃;
He traces the edges of the individual networks and then color codes them. 他追踪个人网络的分界线 然后用颜色来编码他们。
traces:v.跟踪;探索;n.痕迹;踪迹;(trace的复数和第三人单数)
The Internet is the first medium in history that has native support for groups and conversation at the same time . 网络是历史上第一个媒介 即自然生成组织 同时又有对话。
medium:n.(传播信息的)媒介;手段;工具;方法;adj.中等的;中号的; native:adj.本国的;土著的;天然的;与生俱来的;天赋的;n.本地人;土产;当地居民; at the same time:同时;另一方面;与此同时;
Where as the phone gave us the one to one pattern. 电话只给我们一对一的形式。
And television, radio, magazines, books, gave us the one to many pattern. 电视,收音机,杂志,书, 给我们一对很多的媒体形式。
The Internet gives us the many to many pattern. 网络给我们许多对许多的媒体形式。
For the first time media is natively good at supporting these kinds of conversations. 第一次 媒体是自然好的支持了会话的类型。
natively:adv.生来地;天然地;
That's one of the big changes. 这是最大的变化之一。
The second big change is that as all media gets digitized the Internet also becomes the mode of carriage for all other media. 第二个大变化 是随着所有媒体变数字化 网络开始变成所有媒体传递 的方式。
digitized:adj.数字化的;v.使数字化(digitize的过去分词); carriage:n.运输;运费;四轮马车;举止;客车厢;
Meaning that phone calls migrate to the Internet. 意味着电话转到网络。
migrate:vi.移动;随季节而移居;移往;vt.使移居;使移植;
Magazines migrate to the Internet. Movies migrate to the Internet. 杂志转到网络。电影转到网络。
And that means that every medium is right next door to every other medium. 也意味每个媒介和每隔一个媒介紧紧 联系。
next door to:几乎;与…相邻;
Put another way, media is increasingly less just a source of information. 换句话说, 媒介迅速减少为一些消息。
source:n.来源;水源;原始资料;
And it is increasingly more a site of coordination . 他更多的是增长型协调网站。
site:n.地点;位置;场所;v.设置;为…选址; coordination:n.协调,调和;对等,同等;
Because groups that see or hear or watch or listen to something can now gather around and talk to each other as well. 因为组织看到,听到,被看到,去听一些事 现在可以聚到一起,互相交流。
And the third big change is that members of the former audience, as Dan Gilmore calls them, can now also be producers and not consumers . 第三个变化是 以前观众的成员,就如Dan Gilmore称呼他们, 现在可以成为生产者而不是消费者。
consumers:n.消费者;顾客;用户;(consumer的复数)
Every time a new consumer joins this media landscape a new producer joins as well. 每次一个新消费者 加入这个媒体前景 一个新生产者也随之产生。
Because the same equipment, phones, computers, let you consume and produce. 因为同样的设备, 电话,计算机, 让你消费和生产。
It's as if, when you bought a book, they threw in the printing press for free. 这就好比,当你买本书,他们免费印刷刊物。
It's like you had a phone that could turn into a radio if you pressed the right buttons. 当你按对按钮,你用手机转变成 收音机。
That is a huge change in the media landscape we're used to. 比我们的媒体前景有了巨大 变化。
And it's not just Internet or no Internet. 它不仅是网络化或者不网络化。
We've had the Internet in its public form for almost 20 years now. 我们已经有公众网络化 到现在大概有20年。
And it's still changing as the media becomes more social. 他还是变化 随着媒体变得越社会化。
It's still changing patterns even among groups who know how to deal with the Internet well. 他也变化形式 尽管一些组织知道怎样很好的应对网络。
Second story, last May, China in the Sichuan province had a terrible earthquake, 7.9 magnitude , massive destruction in a wide area, as the Richter Scale has it. 第二个故事, 去年五月,中国四川省 发生里氏7.9级的地震, 里氏震级地区范围内有可怕的毁灭。
magnitude:n.大小;量级;[地震]震级;重要;光度; massive:adj.大量的;巨大的,厚重的;魁伟的; destruction:n.破坏,毁灭;摧毁; Richter Scale:n.里克特震级(测量地震强度的标准);
And the earthquake was reported as it was happening. 地震发生时,即时被报道了。
People were texting from their phones. They were taking photos of buildings. 人们用手机传信息。人们拍建筑物的照片。
They were taking videos of buildings shaking. 也拍倒塌的楼房视频。
They were uploading it to QQ, China's largest Internet service. 上传到中国最大的网络服务QQ,
uploading:v.上载;上传;(upload的现在分词)
They were Twittering it. 他们推特这个信息。
Twittering:v.(鸟)唧啾,唧唧喳喳地说话;(twitter的现在分词)
And so as the quake was happening the news was reported. 随着地震频频发生 新闻报道了。
quake:vi.震动;颤抖;n.地震;颤抖;
And because of the social connections, 因为社会关系,
Chinese students coming elsewhere , and going to school. 中国学生到异地去留学。
elsewhere:adv.在别处;到别处;
Or businesses in the rest of the world opening offices in China. 其他国家的商人在中国开办事处。
There were people listening all over the world, hearing this news. 全世界的人们了解了这新闻。
The BBC got their first wind of the Chinese quake from Twitter. BBC从推特得到中国四川地震的第一消息。
Twitter announced the existence of the quake several minutes before the US Geological Survey had anything up online for anybody to read. 推特报道地震的发生 比美国地质调查早几分钟 在线的任何人都可以了解到。
Geological:adj.地质的,地质学的; Survey:n.调查;测量;审视;纵览;vt.调查;勘测;俯瞰;vi.测量土地;
The last time China had a quake of that magnitude it took them three months to admit that it had happened. 上一次中国发生那规模的地震 政府花了3个月的时间才承认地震发生了。
(Laughter) （笑声）
Now they might have liked to have done that here, rather than seeing these pictures go up online. 现在他们有可能喜欢这样做, 而不是看到这些上传的图片。
But they weren't given that choice. 但是他们别无选择。
Because their own citizens beat them to the punch . 因为他们自己公民先发制人报道了新闻。
punch:n.冲床; v.拳打; (用打孔器等)打孔;
Even the government learned of the earthquake from their own citizens, rather than from the Xinhua News Agency . 甚至政府从他们自己的公民那了解到地震。 而不是从新华社。
News Agency:n.通讯社;
And this stuff rippled like wildfire . 这个有点像野火燎燃。
stuff:n.东西:物品:基本特征:v.填满:装满:标本: rippled:adj.起微波的;起涟漪的;vt.使…起涟漪;使…起微波(ripple的过去分词); wildfire:n.火灾;磷火,鬼火;散布极快的事物;
For a while there the top 10 most clicked links on Twitter, the global short messaging service, nine of the top 10 links were about the quake. 有一段时间 推特上前10常被链接的网页, 全球短信服务, 有9个链接都是关于地震的。
For a while:adv.片刻;暂时;一会儿;一时; global:adj.全球的;总体的;球形的;
People collating information, pointing people to news sources , pointing people to the US geological survey. 人们整理信息, 给人们带来新闻资源 美国地质调查
collating:n.整理;v.校对;对照(collate的ing形式); sources:n.来源;出处;起源;根源;原因;v.(从…)获得(source的第三人称单数和复数)
The 10th one was kittens on a treadmill , but that's the Internet for you. 第十条就好象猫在踏车上,但那就是对于你而言的网络化。
treadmill:n.踏车,跑步机;单调的工作;
(Laughter) （笑声）
But nine of the 10 in those first hours. 10个里头的9个第一时间。
And within half a day donation sites were up. 在半天内捐款网出现。
donation:n.捐赠;捐赠物;赠送; sites:n.网站(site的复数);遗址,举办地点;v.使...位于(site的单三形式);
And donations were pouring in from all around the world. 从全球蜂拥而至的捐款。
donations:n.捐赠物;捐赠;赠送;(donation的复数) pouring:v.倾倒;倾泻;连续流出;倒出;喷发;(pour的现在分词)
This was an incredible , coordinated global response . 这真是不可思议的,协调一致的全球反应。
incredible:adj.难以置信的,惊人的; coordinated:v.使协调;使相配合;搭配,协调;(coordinate的过去分词和过去式) response:n.响应;反应;回答;
And the Chinese then, in one of their periods of media openness decided that they were going to let it go. 然后中国,媒体公开化阶段一种 决定让它公开化。
openness:n.公开;宽阔;率真;
That they were going to let this citizen reporting fly. 他们开始让居民猛速地报道。
And then this happened. 然后这个发生了。
People began to figure out, in the Sichuan Provence, that the reason so many school buildings had collapsed , because tragically the earthquake happened during a school day , the reason so many school buildings collapsed is that corrupt officials had taken bribes t o allow those building to be built to less than code. 在四川省,人们开始指出, 许多学校倒塌的原因是, 因为地震发生时,悲剧性地,正好是在学校的时间。 许多学校倒塌的原因 是豆腐渣工程 是这些建筑不按指标去建筑。
collapsed:v.倒塌,坍塌;倒下,昏倒;坐下;(collapse的过去分词和过去式) tragically:adv.悲剧地;悲惨地; school day:教学日;上课日; built:v.建造(build的过去分词);adj.身段优美的;…建成的;
And so they started, the citizen journalists started reporting that as well. And there was an incredible picture. 紧接着,公民记者也开始 报道了。这有一副震惊的图片。
journalists:n.新闻记者(journalist的复数);
You may have seen in on the front page of the New York Times. 你也可能在纽约时报头版看到过。
front page:adj.(新闻等的)头版的;重要的;轰动的;vt.把…登在头版;
A local official literally prostrated himself in the street, in front of these protesters . 一个当地官员在街上抗议人群的 前面直接跪倒,
official:adj.官方的;正式的;公务的;n.官员;公务员;高级职员; literally:adv.按字面:字面上:确实地: prostrated:adj.俯卧的;拜倒的;降伏的;沮丧的;vt.使…屈服;将…弄倒;使…俯伏; protesters:n.(公开)抗议者,反对者;(protester的复数)
In order to get them to go away. 好让她们离开。
Essentially to say, "We will do anything to placate you. 基本上说:“我们会弥补一切过失,
Essentially:adv.本质上;本来; placate:vt.抚慰;怀柔;使和解;
just please stop protesting in public." 请停止抗议吧。”
protesting:v.(公开)反对;抗议;坚决地表示;申辩;(protest的现在分词)
But these are people who have been radicalized . 但是人们却被激怒了。
radicalized:vt.使…激进;使…偏激;vi.激进化;成为过激论者;
Because thanks to the one child policy they have lost everyone in their next generation. 由于计划生育法 他们失去了下一代的孩子。
policy:n.政策,方针;保险单;
Someone who has seen the death of a single child now has nothing to lose. 一些人看到独身孩子的死亡 现在一无所有了。
And so the protest kept going. 所以抗议会继续下去。
And finally the Chinese cracked down. 最终中国采取严厉手段。
cracked:adj.疯狂;破裂的;有裂纹的;v.破裂;裂开;断裂;(crack的过去分词和过去式)
That was enough of citizen media. 居民媒体有很多。
And so they began to arrest the protesters. 所以他们开始逮捕抗议者。
They began to shut down the media that the protests were happening on. 他们开始封锁抗议者搞的媒体。
protests:v.抗议;反对(protest的三单形式);n.抗议(protest的复数);
China is probably the most successful manager of Internet censorship , in the world, using something that is widely described as the Great Firewall of China. 中国可能是世界上最成功的 网络审查监管人, 使用一些被广泛称为的中国防火墙。
censorship:n.审查制度;审查机构; described:v.描述;形容;把…称为;做…运动;(describe的过去分词和过去式) Firewall:n.防火墙;vt.用作防火墙;
And the Great Firewall of China is a set of observation points that assume that media is produced by professionals , it mostly comes in from the outside world, it comes in in relatively sparse chunks , and it comes in relatively slowly. 中国防火墙 是设置观察点 以确保专家弄出媒体, 主要监察的是外部世界, 和相对分散的媒体, 相对比较慢。
professionals:n.[管理]专业人员(professional的复数); relatively:adv.相当程度上;相当地;相对地; sparse:adj.稀疏的;稀少的; chunks:n.厚块;大块;相当大的量;组块;(chunk的复数)
And because of those four characteristics they are able to filter it as it comes into the country. 通过这四个特点 中国政府可以过滤它,然后这种媒体才进入到中国。
characteristics:n.特征;特点;品质;(characteristic的复数) filter:n.滤波器;过滤器;滤光器;滤声器;v.过滤;渗入;(用程序)筛选;缓行;
But like the Maginot Line, the great firewall of China was facing in the wrong direction for this challenge. 就好像是马其诺防线, 中国防火墙 搞错了对象。
Because not one of those four things was true in this environment. 因为在当下这四个特点都站不住脚。
The media was produced locally . It was produced by amateurs . 由于媒体当地化和业余化,
locally:adv.在本地;局部地;在地方上; amateurs:n.业余爱好者;业余运动员;生手;外行;(amateur的复数)
It was produced quickly. And it was produced at such an incredible abundance that there was no way to filter it as it appeared. 媒体很快就形成,产生了不可思议的丰富内容。 政府已没有办法去过滤已经发布的媒体。
abundance:n.丰度;丰富;大量;富足;
And so now the Chinese government, who for a dozen years, has quite successfully filtered the web, is now in the position of having to decide whether to allow or shut down entire services. 所以现在中国政府,花了20年, 相当成功地过滤网页, 现在要决定 是否容许或者关闭整个服务器。
filtered:v.过滤;(用程序)筛选;缓行;(filter的过去分词和过去式)
Because the transformation to amateur media is so enormous that they can't deal with it any other way. 因为大众媒体的转变 是如此巨大而找不出好的方法来解决。
enormous:adj.庞大的,巨大的;凶暴的,极恶的;
And in fact that is happening this week. 事实这周也发生了。
On the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen they just two days ago announced that they were simply shutting down access to Twitter. 于天安门20周年庆时 他们2天前宣布 他们已经关闭推特的使用。
Because there was no way to filter it other than that. 没法去过滤它就关闭。
They had to turn the spigot entirely off. 他们要关闭整个推特接口信息。
spigot:n.龙头;栓;饮水的地方;
Now these changes don't just affect people who want to censor messages. 现在这些变化不仅仅影响审查信息的人们。
They also affect people who want to send messages. 他也影响传递信息的人们。
Because this is really a transformation of the ecosystem as a whole . 这确实如一个统为一体的生态系统转变。
ecosystem:n.生态系统; as a whole:总的来说;
Not just a particular strategy . 不仅仅指特别的战略。
strategy:n.策略;行动计划;部署;战略;
The classic media problem, from the twentieth century is how does an organization have a message that they want to get out to a group of people distributed at the edges of a network. 自从20世纪,传统的媒体问题 是怎样让组织发布一个 信息 传递到一个网络组里的成员。
classic:n.名著;优秀的典范;adj.最优秀的;第一流的;有代表性的;典型的; organization:n.组织;机构;体制;团体; distributed:adj.分布的;分散的;v.分发;分配;使分布(distribute的过去分词和过去式)
And here is the twentieth century answer. 这是20世纪的答案。
Bundle up the message. Send the same message to everybody. 捆绑信息。传递同一信息给每个人。
Bundle:n.包; v.匆匆送走; (成群地)匆忙赶往;
National message. Targeted individuals . 全国信息。针对性个体。
individuals:n.[经]个人;[生物]个体(individual的复数);
Relatively sparse number of producers. 相对分散生成者。
Very expensive to do. 非常昂贵去媒体化。
So there is not a lot of competition . 所以没有激烈的竞争。
competition:n.竞争;比赛,竞赛;
This is how you reach people. 这就是你怎么传递信息给人们的。
All of that is over. 这已经都是过去的。
We are increasingly in a landscape where media is global. 我们快速经历一个媒体全球化的前景。
social, ubiquitous and cheap. 社会化,无处不在的和便宜的。
ubiquitous:adj.普遍存在的;无所不在的;
Now most organizations that are trying to send messages to the outside world, to the distributed collection of the audience, are now used to this change. 现在多数组织开始发布信息 给外面世界,引起公众的关注, 好现在适应这种变化。
organizations:n.组织,构造,有机体(organization的复数);组织机构;
The audience can talk back. 公众可以恢复会话。
And that's a little freaky . But you can get used to it after a while, as people do. 这有点奇特。但是你过一段就会习惯,随着人们这样做。
freaky:adj.畸形的;捉摸不定的(等于freakish); get used to:开始习惯于
But that's not the really crazy change that we're living in the middle of. 我们生活其中,但这绝对不是疯狂的变化。
The really crazy change is here. 比较疯狂变化是这里。
It's the fact that they are no longer disconnected from each other. 事实上,彼此之间不再被分隔。
disconnected:adj.分离的; v.切断(煤气、水或电的供应); (disconnect的过去式和过去分词)
The fact that former consumers are now producers. 以前消费者现转为生成者。
The fact that the audience can talk directly to one another. 公众可以直接和另一个公众交流。
directly:adv.直接地;立即;马上;正好地;坦率地;conj.一…就;
Because there is a lot more amateurs than professionals. 有比专业多得多的业余媒体者。
And because the size of the network, the complexity of the network is actually the square of the number of participants . 因为网络的规模, 复杂化实际上是参与者数量 的平方。
complexity:n.复杂性;难以理解的局势 participants:n.参与者(participant的复数形式);
Meaning that the network, when it grows large, grows very very large. 意味网络,它变大, 变得异常,异常大。
As recently at last decade, 过去的最近十年,
recently:adv.最近;新近;
Most of the media that was available for public consumption was produced by professionals. 大众消费的多数媒体 是专业形成的。
consumption:n.消费;消耗;肺痨;
Those days are over, never to return. 那些日子一去不复返。
It is the green lines now, that are the source of the free content . 现在是绿色信息年代,免费内容的来源。
content:n.内容,目录;满足;容量;adj.满意的;vt.使满足;
Which brings me to my last story. 我的最后一个故事。
We saw some of the most imaginative use of social media during the Obama campaign. 在奥巴马竞选活动,我看到一些很有想象化的社会媒体 应用。
imaginative:adj.虚构的;富于想象的;有创造力的;
And I don't mean most imaginative use in politics . 我不是指政治上的想象化应用。
politics:n.政治;钩心斗角;政治观点;v.(贬)从事政治活动;(politic的第三人称单数)
I mean most imaginative use ever. 而是曾具最具创意想象的应用。
And one of the things Obama did, was they famously , the Obama campaign did, was they famously put up 奥巴马做过其中之一,比较出名的, 在奥巴马竞选中,他们建了有名的
famously:adv.著名地;极好地;
My Barak Obama dot com, myBO.com My Barak Obama dot com, myBO.com (同一个网站)
Barak:n.[服装]驼毛外衣;
And millions of citizens rushed in to participate , and to try and figure out how to help. 百万市民蜂拥而入, 尝试和弄明白怎么帮助奥巴马。
participate:v.参加;参与;
An incredible conversation sprung up there. 令人吃惊的对话开始出现。
And then, this time last year, 然后,去年这个时候,
Obama announced that he was going to change his vote on FISA, 奥巴马宣布他将改变他在FISA的选票。
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 外国情报监察法。
Intelligence:n.智力;智慧;才智;(尤指关于敌国的)情报; Surveillance:n.监督;监视;
He had said, in January, that he would not sign a bill that granted telecom immunity for possibly warrantless spying on American persons. 在1月份,他说过,将不签署这项 授权电信系统监视 美国人的议案。
telecom:n.电信,远距通信;电讯; immunity:n.免疫力;豁免权;免除;
By the summer, in the middle of the general campaign, 夏天,大型竞选期间,
He said, "I've thought about the issue more. I've changed my mind. 他说, 这个问题我想很多。我要改变我的观点。
issue:n.重要议题;争论的问题;v.宣布;公布;发出;发行;
I'm going to vote for this bill." 我要对这议案投一票。
And many of his own supporters on his own site went very publicly berserk . 在他自己网站的许多支持者 公开地对此生气,狂怒。
supporters:n.拥护者;(运动队的)支持者;(supporter的复数) berserk:adj.狂怒的;adv.狂暴地,狂怒地;
It was Senator Obama when they created it. They changed the name later. 他们推选了参议员奥巴马,之后他们改变总统投票。
Senator:n.参议员;
Please get FISA right. 请让外国情报监察法合理化。
Within days of this group being created it was the fastest growing group on myBO.com. 随着这个组织刚产生的几天之内 在myBO.com 是最快增长的组织。
Within weeks of its being created it was the largest group. 几周内他是最大的了。
Obama had to issue a press release . 奥巴马只好召开一个新闻发布。
press release:n.(向媒体发布的)新闻稿;
He had to issue a reply. 他不得不公开回复。
And he said essentially, "I have considered the issue. 他基本上说:“我已经考虑这个问题。
I understand where you are coming from. 我理解你们都是从哪里来。
But having considered it all, I'm still going to vote the way I'm going to vote. 但是全面考虑,我还是要去投我应该投的票。
But I wanted to reach out to you and say, I understand that you disagree with me, and I'm going to take my lumps on this one." 但是我想让你们知道,我理解你们和我意见不统一。 我在这一点不会妥协。
lumps:n.肿块(lump的复数); v.结块;
This didn't please anybody. But then a funny thing happened in the conversation. 这并没有取悦任何人。但是在这个会话里有趣的事发生了。
People in that group realized that Obama had never shut them down. 组里的人们意识到 奥巴马没有把组织关闭。
Nobody in the Obama campaign had ever tried to hide the group or make it harder to join, to deny its existence, to delete it, to take to off the site. 在奥巴马竞选团队里没有一个人曾试图隐藏组织 或者使组织很难加入, 否定它的存在,删除它, 取缔网站。
deny:v.否定,否认;拒绝给予;拒绝…的要求;
They had understood that their role with myBO.com was to convene their supporters but not to control their supporters. 他们知道他们的角色 用myBO.com 去召集他们的支持者 但不是控制他们的支持者。
convene:vt.召集,集合;传唤;vi.聚集,集合;
And that is the kind of discipline that it takes to make really mature use of this media. 这是一种 媒体成熟 使用的体系。
discipline:n.纪律;训练;自制力;风纪;v.训练;管教;惩罚;处罚; mature:v.成熟; adj.明白事理的;
Media, the media landscape that we knew, as familiar as it was, as easy conceptually as it was to deal with the idea that professionals broadcast messages to amateurs, is increasingly slipping away. 媒体,我们虽知道的,曾熟悉的媒体前景, 简单概念就是 专业广播人报道 给业余大众的观点 迅速悄然而逝。
familiar:adj.熟悉的;常见的;亲近的;n.常客;密友; conceptually:adv.概念地; broadcast:v.广播; n.广播节目; adj.[无线]播音的; slipping:n.滑动;adj.渐渐松弛的;v.滑动;(slip的现在分词);
In a world where media is global, social, ubiquitous and cheap, in a world of media where the former audience are now increasingly full participants, in that world, media is less and less often about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals. 在这个世界里,媒体是全球化,社会化,无处不在和廉价的, 媒体世界原先的大众 现在急速完全参与为媒体者, 在这个世界,媒体就是显而易见 关于生成一个信息 会被不同的个体分享消化。
crafting:n.工艺;手工艺;v.精巧地制作;加工制作(craft的ing形式); consumed:adj.沉迷…的; v.消耗,耗费; (consume的过去分词和过去式)
It is more and more often a way of creating an environment for convening and supporting groups. 它会越来越明显 创造一个聚集 和支持组织的方式。
convening:召开;
And the choice we face, 我们面临选择,不管媒体环境对我们是否有利,
I mean anybody who has a message they want to have heard anywhere in the world, isn't whether or not that is the media environment we want to operate in. 我指发信息的任何人想让 世界上任何地方都能 了解到信息媒体。
whether or not:是否…;
That's the media environment we've got. 这才是我们要的媒体环境。
The question we all face now is, "How can we make best use of this media? 现在我们都面临的问题是, “我们怎样更好应用这个媒体？
Even though it means changing the way we've always done it." 尽管他意味我们得随时改变即以执行的方法。”
Thank you very much. 十分感谢。
(Applause) （鼓掌）