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  • Capital "I" for Internet?


    gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT)Authority Authority: 124
    Ive been doing a lot of work on virtual ethnography lately, and I was reading a recently-published book titled “ Internet Inquiry: Conversations about Method ” edited by Annette Markham and Nancy Baym. What was most interesting was the following footnote on the first page of the introduction: "Internet" is often ...
    4 days ago
  • LeWeb Conference: Program Announcement


    Ad Operations OnlineAuthority Authority: 485
    9 and 10 December – at 104 – Paris 19th District; LeWeb’09PARIS  – -The 2009 LeWeb conference, organised by Géraldine and Loïc Le Meur, will be held on 9 and 10 December at the 104 venue in Paris. www.leweb.netThe real-time web is this year’s true revolution. The meteoric success of Twitter has ushered in ...
    4 days ago
  • LeWeb Conference: Program Announcement


    Ad Operations OnlineAuthority Authority: 485
    9 and 10 December – at 104 – Paris 19th District; LeWeb’09PARIS  – -The 2009 LeWeb conference, organised by Géraldine and Loïc Le Meur, will be held on 9 and 10 December at the 104 venue in Paris. www.leweb.netThe real-time web is this year’s true revolution. The meteoric success of Twitter has ushered in ...
    4 days ago
  • Tweeting behind your back


    ThinkingShiftAuthority Authority: 119
    ChiefTech alerted me to this.  I should preface what I’m going to rant about by saying this – a couple of years ago, I decided not to speak at conferences or run as many workshops for conference companies. A couple of reasons dictated this decision. Firstly, I was getting cranky with how conference companies ...
    4 days ago
  • Embracing new interactions


    Joi PodgornyAuthority Authority: 100
    I am just now getting the time to catch up on some of my more meaty blog feeds (read:academics) and devote the kind of time I need to their posts. I was so disheartened by the treatment that danah boyd received at Web 2.0 a couple weeks ago .  It’s hard enough getting over your nerves to speak at large ...
    1 week ago
  • Don’t Feed the Trolls


    WikinomicsAuthority Authority: 460
    danah boyd, researcher at Microsoft Research New England , Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society , and publisher of the apophenia blog, had plenty to say to the audience at Web 2.0 in New York City on November 17. But some tweeters got in the way . Conference organizers decided to display ...
    1 week ago
  • Sugary Media


    Antonio GouldAuthority Authority: 92
    (Pic by Uwe Hermann ) Danah Boyd: In a harsh, competitive media landscape, people will often consume content that is most stimulating, and that triggers a strong reaction, rather than that which is best or most informative. In a food context, this is a bit like eating sugary and fatty food. When these were ...
    1 week ago
  • The object in Danah Boyds Web 2.0 talk


    The Eloquent Woman: A blog on women and public speakingAuthority Authority: 465
    Danah Boyd , a Harvard fellow and Microsoft researcher of social media and youth culture trends and behaviors, gave a disastrous talk at the Web 2.0 Expo this month.  Ive blogged about it on the dont get caught blog in terms of the most-discussed factors that made it a train wreck:  a snarky group in the audience ...
    1 week ago
  • A Sobering Look at the Dark Side of Conference Backchannel


    The Unquiet LibrarianAuthority Authority: 419
    I have been an unabashed champion of the power of conference backchannel, but danah boyd’s  (whose work I respect and admire tremendously) experience at the Web 2.0 Expo on November 17 shook me to my very core.  You can read more from boyd here as well as here , but in a nutshell, conference organizers staged a ...
    1 week ago
  • On the perils of a backchannel


    Tiffany B. BrownAuthority Authority: 433
    danah boyd gives her perspective on last week’s Web 2.0 Twitter back channel debacle. So I have a favor to ask … I am going to be giving a bunch of public speaking performances at web conferences in the next couple of months: Supernova and Le Web in December, SXSW in March, WWW in April. I will do my darndest ...
    1 week ago
  • Tweckling


    Cause Global: Social Media for Social ChangeAuthority Authority: 118
    Social media are triggering new forms of group behavior—for better or worse, and this past weeks Web 2.0 Expo in Manhattan offered up a fresh example of the dark side. On Day Two of the conference, twittering audience members formed a digital swarm to heckle keynote speaker danah boyd while she was delivering ...
    2 weeks ago
  • danah boyd on limited attention and information streams


    Tiffany B. BrownAuthority Authority: 433
    boyd posted notes from her Web2.0 talk, “ Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media ” As networked technologies proliferate around the world, we can assume that there is a channel of distribution available to everyone and between everyone. In theory, anyone could get ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Redlining Online


    A. Fine BlogAuthority Authority: 456
    Ivan Boothe wrote a terrific post last week about Causes taking down its application from MySpace. Causes is an application for use on social networking sites. it enables users to highlight causes that they care about asking friends to join their cause and also to make donations.Since its launch in 2006, there are ...
    2 weeks ago
  • The Awl Ironically Plays The Twitter Race Card, Goes Bust


    MediaiteAuthority Authority: 789
    For those of you not ‘in the know,’ The Awl is a Gawker Alumni Blog/Pirate Ship run by former Gawkerers  Choire Sicha and Alex Balk.   For the most part, I like the site, and read it every day. In particular, I think that contributors  Natasha Vargas-Cooper and Abe Sauer should get medals for the ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Net Tuesday Organizers Stand Up for a Web that Connects us ALL -- Will YOU?


    NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org blogsAuthority Authority: 513
    This is a lightly revised note that I shared with 157 fellow Net Tuesday Organizers this past Friday evening, concerning Causes recent announcement to abandon 184,674 users on MySpace. Heres a quick way for you to share it on Twitter & Facebook . Dear friends, I hope this note finds you well on a ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Choosing the Right Grad School


    memoirs on a rainy dayAuthority Authority: 146
    Great article I found thanks to Andrew . It’s by Danah Boyd on the importance of choosing the right grad school . Posted in writing Tagged: asides, danah boyd, graduate school, graduate studies
    5 weeks ago
  • Facebook vs Twitter? It’s the wrong question


    Larvatus ProdeoAuthority Authority: 550
    One of the sharpest sociological observers of social media on the block, danah boyd, has written a cracker of a post at apophenia pointing out that people actually tend to use Facebook status updates and Twitter for different purposes, and that the social context of each is quite distinct. It’s refreshing to see ...
    6 weeks ago

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