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 don't know, I feel like if I used it more, I'd probably like it more, but it so far it feels like a trip to the dentist or the mall. Or maybe a mandatory office party with no alcohol in a dreary windowless conference room with flourescent lighting.
What she said. I don't want to be findable by random people I happened to have known at one time, tyvm.
Deeply creepy in some ways, FB, and socially coercive with it.
I suppose some might have a similar reaction to LJ's pseudonymity.
This may be a stretch, but FB does feel a bit like the online social networking version of national ID cards and surveillance databases.
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In case you haven't seen it, here's danah boyd's post about FB's attempt to dictate how people are (or, actually, aren't) supposed to use the platform. "Authentic usage only," dontcha know.
Ick. What makes these people think they're the boss of me? It's genuinely baffling.