Tag Archives: Andrew Keen

Relationships 2.0: Social media – taking the distance out of long distance relationships

Ave Tampere | 02 October 2011, 6:01 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Social media has drastically changed the way we go about our daily business – this has been firmly established by now. Media scholars are exploiting (in a good way) all the possibilities and data the exciting platforms provide for research to bring us a clearer picture of our society and the world. But somewhere in that system are also real…

Andrew Clay @ Video Vortex 6. YouTube: Make Money While Escaping Death

Nicola Bozzi | 11 March 2011, 3:32 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

A media theorist and lecturer at Leicester’s De Montfort University, Andrew Clay has been investigating online video for some time. As an opener of the sixth edition of Video Vortex, his intervention explored YouTube and effectively went a bit beyond, as the Reader tagline suggests. The British theorist raised several compelling questions about the popular video sharing platform, inspiring the audience to ask quite a few questions at the end. In particular, his analysis of the top YouTubers – the ones who got rich by putting serial sketches online and engaging the community – took stock of the YouTube experience so far, focusing on the blurrier and blurrier distinction between amateurs and professionals.

The elitist in Andrew Keen, the elitist in me

Hania Piotrowska | 04 January 2010, 5:19 am | 2 comments | tags: , ,

Who doesn’t like to listen to Andrew Keen talk? Perhaps his most famous appearance was made on the Colbert Report, where he had an interesting exchange of opinions with Colbert about whether or not the Internet is worse than the Nazis. Keen is known for his “elitist” approach to the Internet and claims that the democratization…

The significance of Twitter

Kimberley Spreeuwenberg | 08 October 2009, 10:38 am | tags: , , , , , ,

Since its start in 2006 people have speculated about the significance of Twitter. Twitter has often been criticized for it’s lack of content, but is also praised for the empowering possibilities it offers us. I question both these perspectives and propose to understand Twitter, not just as another tool that can be critiqued on the basis of it’s usefulness, but as a communication-tool that can be understood as a reflection of our current society.

Does Twitter promote writing?

Sjoerd Tuinema | 05 October 2009, 1:37 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Over the years Twitter has gradually developed, meanwhile its practices have also changed drastically. The contemporary celebrities took their places, the early adopters started exploring the potentials while lobbying about it and ultimately the platform rapidly started to expand in terms of functionality. Although the range of features on the site stayed very loyal to its core functions, there has…

What’s wrong with Web-cynicism?

Michael Stevenson | 22 October 2007, 10:04 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Whether you’re the latest social networking site out of Silicon Valley, or a lowly blogpost fueled by coffee, plans don’t always work out. I started writing this post with the title The Wasteland of Web 2.0, and was going to describe my experiences with Spurl and Furl, two social bookmarking services in the worst kind of disrepair. What drew me to them was not their Flickry names, but that they both lacked an icon on Mashable’s list of social software applications.