New research paths (ephemerality)

After looking into audio visual media and starting to veer towards apps I started to look into concepts of ephemerality. Ephemerality is a concept usually applied to throw away things like leaflets and receipts but has a new relevance with digital media. Digital media is distributed in a very differently way because of its lack of physicality and with this lack of physicality it is easily thrown away. Rapid improvements with hardware also mean apps and other such media become redundant very quickly, which is something most traditional media will not experience other than natural decay which is likely a much slower process. 

A key book I've been reading for this section of research has been: Ephemeral Media 

Grainge, P. (ed.) (2011) Ephemeral media: Transitory screen culture from television to YouTube. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.