The best of the FlowTV pieces -- and the one which speaks most immediately to my interests -- is People I Want to Know: Twitter, Celebrity and Social Connection by Liz Ellcessor, and Leigh Edwards' Twitter: Democratizing the Media Corporate Branding is also relevant (though I think there's supposed to be an 'or' in the title before 'Corporate Branding' and a question mark at the end). Still, it feels like they're only scraping the surface -- understandably, for short pieces on an emerging phenomenon.
Louisa Stein's It's Contagious: Twitter and the Palimpsest of Authorship juxtaposes Twitter with
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lim 's vid Us, but I honestly couldn't figure out what her argument was -- something about "the prismatic processes of individual and collective authoring." Which sounds good, but the piece itself didn't make a lot of sense to me, and reads more like shorthand notes from a talk or an overgrown abstract for a longer and more thoroughly argued essay. Or am I just being dense?Off to 'follow' Lauren Conrad and Lil C....
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I've seen Misha Collins' tweets. They scare me a bit -- I get weirded out by the constant direct address to fans. I think that's why I can't deal with the idea of following actors as real people, but I'm okay with following people whose TV careers are about being real people on reality shows. The latter come to Twitter already garbed in their established self-fashionings, but the people I'm used to seeing dressed up as fictional characters seem all too embarrassingly naked on Twitter.