the culture and values of social media

links for 2007-06-21

Posted: June 21st, 2007 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: internet culture | 2 Comments »

Importing an existing reference collection into EndNote

Hey bored developer: Please fix this so I can just feed Word docs into EndNote w/o this lengthy and frustrating process. Kthxbye.

(tags: bibliography howto academic software reference)
Duncan Branley : EndNote Tips

Very useful EndNote filter & instructional PDF that imports references from Word, at least 80%. It still requires some work but is WAY better than typing everything out again. Again, why isn’t this standard?

(tags: bibliography reference endnote academic software tools)

links for 2007-06-20

Posted: June 20th, 2007 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: internet culture | No Comments »

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions – outline

Extremely detailed summary / study guide to the book.

(tags: bibliography exams science history pedagogy epistemology)
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I did not know that Wikipedia had such detailed book summaries! Classic text about 80s hacker culture.

(tags: internet internethistory exams books history hacking)
Turner, Fred: From Counterculture to Cyberculture

U Chicago’s page on the book, which includes the intro and a sample chapter. More internet/hacker/hippie history.

(tags: internet internethistory history exams cyberculture research books)
The American Association for History and Computing (AAHC)

Gives a book award every year, has a journal and a blog.l

(tags: history internethistory journals exams books cyberculture internet)

links for 2007-06-19

Posted: June 19th, 2007 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: internet culture | 2 Comments »

tvKalendar – Organizing your favorite tv show torrents and episode information since 2007

Organizes available ep torrents by the day they air (when they become available). Not sure what’s being used to pick the shows, but looks v. useful and well-organized.

(tags: bittorrent tv filesharing media)

Link roundup for June 3, 2007

Posted: June 3rd, 2007 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | 1 Comment »

No Opt In, No Ads

LJ community that chronicles the LJ features and changes that favor advertiser-driven models. V. useful in understanding the recent kerfluffle around interests on LJ (e.g. interests as things one likes vs. things one has an interest in)

(tags: advertising socialsoftware politicaleconomy commercialization livejournal)

About tiara.org

Alice E. Marwick (alicetiara) is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University in the Department of Communication and Media Studies, where she teaches classes on social media and digital culture. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, MA, where she worked closely with danah boyd studying social software. She received her PhD from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU in 2010. Her new book, Status Update: Celebrity and Attention in Social Media (Yale University Press 2013), examines how people use social media to boost social status, focusing on life-streaming, micro-celebrity, and self-branding. This blog focuses on academic work, technology, pop culture, communication, and media studies. (I spend more time on Twitter than anywhere else.)