The alternatives include participatory media, visitor-generated content, prosumer content, homemade content and porous media, which is the other term the AOP picked out for the session.
Their identities hidden under baseball caps and bandanas, the rebels hack through fronds and assure the news media visitors that their destination is "one more hour" away.
"Now Philadelphia is right on the cusp of being one of the premier destination cities in America and this convention will put us over," predicted Mr. Cohen, celebrating the Republican flood of 45,000 political and media visitors to a city that did not have a modern convention center until seven years ago.
There are also tents for media, visitors and food, and an ever-expanding group of committees that now address such issues as press relations, communication with the concurrent Stop the Machine protest on Freedom Plaza, and the concerns of nonwhite protesters.
Mr. McCarthy, also 28, is a business analyst at the Nasdaq MarketSite, the news media and visitors' center for the Nasdaq stock market in Times Square.
"We found the idea was very funny," said Philippe Wurtz, president of the academy, stressing that the presence of Mr. Xu's work allowed A.H.C.I. to reach out to Chinese media and visitors in a new way.
Carl Goodman, the museum's curator of digital media, said visitors could examine "parallels between how politicians started to use the then-new medium of television and the kind of baby steps that are being taken now on the Internet".
During the same two-and-a-half-year period, Gawker Media's visitors, again according to Quantcast, went from about 12 million to 20 million, an increase of two thirds.
The phenomenal and widely documented success of the Tour de France Grand Départ and the new Tour de Yorkshire have demonstrated an appetite for cycling not only from our local authorities, but residents, media, schools, visitors and of course from the riders".
"It is part of the city's history and heritage and we look forward to welcoming spectators, competitors, media and visitors for the centenary".
Little is as it seems – and "passengers" can expect a blend of low-key spookiness, which gradually gives way to the sort of unabridged chaos that Thorpe Park's young, social media-bashing visitors demand.
