Opinion: From Pop Culture to Peep Culture - 0 views
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Gary Ritzenthaler on 20 Sep 10Essay on peep culture by Hal Niedzviecki, author of Peep Diaries (one of our texts.) Good overview of the themes in the book.
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CBC Books - The Book Club - Book Club podcast: Hal Niedzviecki on Peep Culture — ... - 0 views
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"In this week's podcast, Hal Niedzviecki, writer, culture commentator, editor and publisher of Broken Pencil magazine, muses on the current 'peep culture' and the future of reading."
RIP: A Remix Manifesto - 0 views
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"Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age."
The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine - 0 views
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This is a long article, but well worth the read - on what might be the most important technological topic facing our society.
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"Over the last several years, the problem of attention has migrated right into the center of our cultural attention. [...] Everyone still pays some form of attention all the time, of course-it's basically impossible for humans not to-but the currency in which we pay it, and the goods we get in exchange, have changed dramatically."
Unit Structures: The Vibrancy of Online Social Space - 0 views
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Nice essay on online culture - how online social networks are "places"
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky - 0 views
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Great essay from Shirky on newspapers and changes in culture.
YouTube - The Facebook Effect with Mark Zuckerberg - 0 views
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A Q&A discussion with Mark Zuckerberg and david Kirkpatrick on the history, technology, and cultural effects of Facebook. Nothing shocking but worth the time nonetheless.
South Park Episode Player - South Park: You Have 0 Friends - 1 views
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The South Park guys skewer Facebook culture and pay tribute to the original Tron movie. Aside from being damn funny there's a lot of great discussion points in here.
Avatars: Love and Desire in the Digital Age | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com - 0 views
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"The couple has been inseparable ever since-at least in a sense. In the real world, there are oceans between them."
Internet Famous: Julia Allison and the Secrets of Self-Promotion - 0 views
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From Wired: case study of how to be a queen of self-promotion.
Vanessa Grigoriadis on Twitter | Culture | Vanity Fair - 0 views
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I think the way Vanity Fair presents this is more interesting than the content of the article itself.
Guest Post Online - 0 views
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Wallflower at the Web Party - New York Times - 0 views
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History of Friendster and discussion of it as a business failure
Facebook friends not real friends: judge - 0 views
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Technology - smh.com.au
Dr David Beer (2008) Social network(ing) sites…revisiting the story so far: A... - 0 views
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I disagree with some of his points, but well-argued and documented. From: J Comp Mediated Comm, Volume 13 Issue 2 Page 516-529, January 2008 (Full Text)
ECAR Implications for Facebook - 0 views
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commentary on ECAR report - student use of technology - The Unofficial Facebook Blog
You Are Not My Friend - 0 views
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essay in TIME on weakness of online friendship ties
YouTube - Talk Show Clips - Friendster - 0 views
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Clips of Jonathan Abrams on talk shows during the height of Friendster's popularity.
The Story - The Miracle in July - 0 views
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Interactive fiction using social media (among other things) to tell the story.
Welcome to the Naked Generation | The Social - CNET News.com - 0 views
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Short essay from Caroline McCarthy about the "exhibitionism" of the generation of students just leaving and currently in college. Raises some good questions for discussion.