Here’s the @100interviews video of me from SXSW. Note I look exhausted. That’s because it’s halfway through South by and I was exhausted. Good basic overview of my dissertation.
So my ROFLCON keynote on internet celebrity is finally online in its entirety at the Internet Archive. It took me this long to find it because it’s tagged as “Alex Marwick.” Oh well, we all need to start somewhere! It’s about a half hour long and touches on many of the things about internet celebrity that I’ve written/talked about elsewhere, but I wrote it to be funnier than a typical academic talk. I’ll upload it to YouTube eventually and post it here when it’s done.
It’s about that time: the time when the dorkiest Web 2.0 dorks in the dorkosphere all descend on Austin, TX for a week. This is my third SXSW Interactive, and as such I finally feel veteran enough to comment on the experience.
This year, I’m on two panels:
P2P 2.0: Copyright, Streaming, and Circumventing Chinese Censorship
Tuesday, March 17, 3:30 - 4:30 PM. With Adam Fisk (LittleShoot, LimeWire), Ian Clarke (Uprizer Labs, Freenet, Revver), Wendy Seltzer (Berkman Center for Internet & Society, co-founder of Chilling Effects), Aaron Ray (The Collective, lots of film/music projects).
AND: Just announced: “Is Privacy Dead or Just Very Confused?” Saturday, March 14, 10-11 am.
I’m so excited to be added to this panel, as it has some slam-dunk academics on it: my friend and future co-worker danah boyd (Microsoft Research) and my former advisor Siva Vaidhyanathan (UVA). Judith Donath rounds out the pack - her current work on signalling is amazingly interesting and I can’t wait to hear where this panel goes. I’m stepping in to sub for one of my terrific advisors, Helen Nissenbaum (NYU).
Tips
As a non-drinker, I avoid the worst curse of SXSW: being so hung over every day that the week becomes more like an endurance test than a fun experience.
Resources
See you there!
For the third year in a row, I am speaking at SXSW Interactive. Last year’s discussion about internet fame was a huge success, and I really enjoyed meeting and talking to everyone who came.
This year I am speaking on “P2P 2.0 and the Future of Digital Media,” a panel about the possibilities and futures of peer-to-peer content creation, distribution, and collaboration. This is a great panel put together by Adam Fisk (LittleShoot, Limewire) and also features Ian Clarke (FreeNet, Revver), Wendy Seltzer (EFF, Berkman Center), and Aaron Ray (the manager for Linkin Park). I’m really excited. As with any panel, I’m sure it will evolve and change as we get closer to the date, but I’m thinking about talking about commercial internet sites and their effects on content creators (copyright infringement claims, content ownership, advertising, selling of personal information, etc.).
So if you’re at SXSW drop by. I was also thinking about organizing an Academics at SXSW meetup- any interest?
Lately I’ve been paying close attention to just who I’m paying attention to when I go to a tech conference (academic or industry). Places like SXSW are pretty good about gender balance, but others will have panel after panel of white dudes, or at least four white dudes and a white woman.
I was perusing Glenda Bautista’s blog this morning when I found an old post on a web strategy blog listing Asian/Asian-American potential conference speakers, which I think is a terrific idea.
A list of potential female tech speakers would be a very long list. But while I can think of several female startup heads (Mary Hodder, Dina Kaplan, Gina Bianchini, etc.), generally it’s the young male CEO/CTO/COO’s who land on panel after panel and demo after demo. A recent demo session I went to had 25 companies presenting and not a single woman.
The hand-wringing over “Women in Tech” isn’t the point: there are plenty of women in technology already, and there needs to be a more proactive effort to include them on lists, conferences, panels, et cetera. This is the opposite of tokenism; instead, it’s an attempt to replace the friend-of-friend attitude that has dudes organizing conferences and booking their dude friends on panels. The more visible women in technology, the more younger women will see technology as a space for them.
So: Do we need a list?
(Note that there’s something totally wackadoodle about this blog lately, technically; I’ve been meaning to devote an afternoon to un-gunking it and haven’t had the free time yet. I apologize for the continued broken comments, etc.)
As promised, here are my notes from my ROFLCON keynote. (lo-fi .txt version).
You can see a sneak preview of part of the talk here:
I may or may not upload the deck - it’s enormous, most of the pictures aren’t credited (which isn’t very fair to the creators) and I think the talk stands fine alone, as the deck mostly just added humor for the audience. Enjoy!
I am here at ROFLCON and just got done with my big keynote on internet celebrity. I’ll post the notes if anyone wants them. More later, when I’m not still hopped up on adrenalin. Thanks everyone for coming!
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