February 2012
12 posts
2 tags
“What we do on social media platforms is often analyzed as a performance or...”
– From “What do I like when i like on Facebook?”
4 tags
4 tags
“The more ‘physical’ the media channel was, the more ‘solid’ was the impression...”
– From “Brands Get Physical to Build Trust”
Via Fast Company
8 tags
Rejecting Materiality for the "Authentically...
Certain corners of the web seem to be all aflame, debating the aesthetic merits of the updated Windows 8 logo. Some, like Venture Beat, deem it ugly, denouncing it as as Microsoft’s “Gap Moment” and declaring that it looks like it was made in “MS Paint.” Others aren’t sure what to make of the new, Pentagram-approved design. If Michael Beirut and Paula Scher...
4 tags
“If one concedes the point that a Sabbath for restorative reasons need not...”
– From “We Don’t Need a Digital Sabbath, We Need More Time,”
Via The Atlantic
3 tags
“TED attempts to present itself as fresh, cutting edge, and outside the box but...”
– From “Against TED”
Via The New Inquiry
4 tags
“It’s not hard to imagine how the less confident students, despite moving in a...”
– From Slate’s “If You Think Your Facebook “Friends” Don’t Like You, They Probably Don’t”
“But you need live feedback to teach you to navigate relationships with grace.” I don’t think I could like this sentence more if I tried. Real time social dynamics, especially...
3 tags
4 tags
“That is, our consumption, especially of information, is a mode of production....”
– From “Google and the Production of Curiosity”
4 tags
“In our phone survey, we asked SNS users a variety of questions about their close...”
– From “Why most Facebook users get more than they give”
Via Pew Internet
My immediate thought on the above, albeit interesting, correlation is that more gregarious and social people (i.e., the kinds of people who are more likely to receive and accept friend requests) are probably more...
4 tags
“The real world is where you take pictures for... →
“Documentary vision is kind of like the “camera eye” photographers develop when, after taking many photos, they begin to see the world as always a potential photo even when not holding the camera at all. The habit of the photographer involuntarily framing and composing the world has become a metaphor for those trained to document using social media. The explosion of ubiquitous...