Tag Archives: Microblogging

Weibo Revolution

Jidi Guo | 02 June 2011, 9:15 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As China is famous for their copied and rip-off products there is no difference in the digital sphere. Services and platforms that we have learned to love, resent or can’t go without also exist within the borders of China but only for the national market. Google became Baidu, Facebook became Renren, Foursquare became Jiepang. As social media develops and comes…

Visualizing what is happening

olga paraskevopoulou | 21 April 2011, 9:47 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Going through an older post in the MoM’s blog referring to Walter’s Ong book “Orality and Literacy”, I discovered a term referring to a new “hybrid form” of culture that has spread on the internet: The Secondary Orality. The term is emphasizing the “re-emergence of an oral type of discourse within literate cultures which is fostering a communal sense and is

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An aerial view of Twitter addiction

Megan Adams | 15 October 2010, 7:06 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , ,

You’ve heard all of the jargon  – “get connected,” “stay connected,” “connect with friends and family,” etc., etc.  Any one of these phrases could be applied to Twitter, Facebook, blogging or you local cell phone carriers marketing tactics.  Clearly this is a rhetorical question, but at what cost do we pay to sign up for said services?  What’s the benefit? …

Evolution of Twitter through Alternative Ways of Usage

Bob Nefkens | 14 October 2010, 5:04 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Since Darwin’s On the Origins of Species the idea of evolution through natural selection has been used in a variety of disciplines, even in the field of media studies. Different types of media are born (being a technical invention) and can become obsolete or converge into new media forms. As the evolution of media goes on, will alternative ways of usage lead to new services, and maybe make Twitter obsolete?

E = Media Combinations2: The survival of the fittest

Chris Hoogeveen | 13 October 2010, 7:54 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Every old medium was once new. And when something gets old we’ve got to search for a way to give it its old glance back. The printed book was once a new medium. It was revolutionary, groundbreaking. But today the book is just a commodity. It is still used very often, but for how long? Terry Flew wrote in his…

Twitter and cognitive surplus, to create a better world?

Layla Van Daalen | 12 October 2010, 11:55 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

I post this tweet on my twitteraccount last week. This question leads me to an overarching question:

Why Twitter? Why should we participate?

Twitter is a tool for microblogging, let see how it works:

Twitter can also be seen as an awareness system, a system around news and events. As Hermida says about Twitter:

“For

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Twitter as a conceptual frame

Alberto Angelini | 11 October 2010, 3:04 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Most people think Twitter was “created” in 2006. These are the same people who think Richard Gere created Buddhism in the 1990′s, just before Madonna created yoga. Folks, like the sun, moon, and stars, Twitter has always been.

This is what you can read in the ‘about’ page of the ‘Historical Tweets’ website. The idea is simple but…

Twitter: The next “great good place”?

Ilektra Pavlaki | 11 October 2010, 2:28 pm | tags: , ,

… or isn’t it a bit too hasty to talk about Twitter effects?

My activated Twitter account could not be more passive. Two tweets in about two years’ time is my contribution to the broadening of horizons of eleven people that decided to follow me, as an extra confirmation of our Facebook friendship. Both of the tweets were sent “out there” in my effort to understand how this medium works. Or to be more accurate, to examine what I was missing: the value of following and being followed.

Research Proposal: Implications of using Twitter in the workplace

Janice Wong | 11 October 2010, 12:03 pm | tags: , , ,

Email has been great within the workplace. That is, until you start to receive hundreds of irrelevant emails a day. Then, you take one day off, and the next morning your inbox is a dog’s breakfast. So, instant messaging was introduced to larger companies ca. 2003 with a lot of

Can conversations become more virtual (i.e. powerful) on Twitter?

olga paraskevopoulou | 11 October 2010, 11:15 am | 4 comments | tags: , ,

My Twitter inquiry had as a starting point the question, whether we may deploy the notion of the virtual to enhance the “real”, or that is, the actual. So I was interested in researching whether it is possible to think of Twitter’s tweets as a new force that will give rise to an interdisciplinary, synergetic, and real-time dialogue and a…