Tag Archives: microblogs

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…

Microblogging = Micro-education?

Anne Lukas | 07 October 2010, 3:01 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Since the beginning of the Twitter hype, I was wondering what the value of Twitter is. Can we possibly learn anything from or through microblogging? Is it useful for companies to encourage lifelong learning? Or can schools and other institutions improve their education with microblogging? Until now I haven’t found an answer for these questions and until now I still…

Is micro blogging the future for writers?

Chris Hoogeveen | 06 October 2010, 5:32 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Micro blogging gained a lot of success over the past few years. With the arrival of web 2.0 there was a need for a new form of writing. Long articles and ongoing features were not what people wanted anymore. There was a need for shorter form of writing. Online publications of papers became brief summaries about news events. There…

Twitter: Public Space or Public Sphere?

ellen sluis | 06 October 2009, 7:51 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Internet kills writing? According to Andrea Lunsford, researcher at the Stanford University, it is totally the other way around. There is an immense increase of people starting to write and digital writing is the biggest revolution in writing since the Greek era; bigger than the shift from the oral- to the writing era. Internet improves our writing skills!

Twitter’s Implications: Is Less Really More?

Annewil Neervens | 12 October 2008, 7:07 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

It’s around us everywhere. Increasingly, the trend of creating single-phrase sentences – or aphorisms – is taking over the way we write and read, on line and offline. It almost seems as though there is no more room for elaborate writings and conversations. It has to be short, fast and informative. But, is less really more?

Understanding Microblogs as Microworlds

Inge Ploum | 11 October 2008, 8:29 pm | 2 comments | tags: ,

The evolution of blogging has introduced another breed of blogs: the microblog. The microblog is a type of blogging that allows users to write compact messages and publish them. By comparing microblogging with the concept microworld, I’ve tried to uncover the social contexts in which microblogging takes place.

Essay: The Perceived Freshness Fetish

Anne Helmond | 22 June 2007, 8:34 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

Why do I feel a need to blog daily? There seems to be some kind of consensus or norm in the blogosphere that blogs should be updated daily. Several blogs about blogging recommend posting daily and blog search engine Technorati’s rankings are correlated to a blog its freshness. There is both an internal and an external “perceived freshness fetish” (Rogers,…

Twitter, Tumblr and microblogging

Anne Helmond | 29 March 2007, 12:03 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Twitter
The newest hype nowadays seems to be Twitter which allows you to share what you are doing with your friends every single second. Are you going to the mall? Is your cat sneezing? Update your Twitter page on the web, or by instant messaging, or send a text message from your phone. Your friends…