Link roundup for July 26, 2008
Posted: July 26th, 2008 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious |Many inside jokes.
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Alice E. Marwick (alicetiara) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. This summer I'm interning with danah boyd at Microsoft Research. I study social technology. This blog focuses on that, pop culture, communication, and media studies. Click on "About Me" for more blathering.
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Recent Tweets
- alicetiara: w00t chapter 2 draft DONE! Now: 30 Rock, in celebration.
- alicetiara: Am totally digging Fred Turner's paper on Burning Man as the 'cultural infrastructure' for Google's labor model http://bit.ly/aAdYhj [pdf]
- alicetiara: @sarahmcsimmons I feel like "good enough" is "has a pulse, possibly speaks same language." ugh.
- alicetiara: Today is one of those days when I really miss Capitol Hill.
- alicetiara: RT (!!!) @xenijardin WTF: "Kids' lingerie" ad featuring Miley Cyrus' 9-year-old sister on a stripper pole? http://bit.ly/a7QJbO
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Recent Deliciousness
- Das Racist: Thanks, Internet!
The three-man creators of "combination pizza hut and taco bell" reflect on the implications of internet fame and drop some science on corporate mythmaking. - February 2010: Vanessa Grigoriadis on Twitter | vanityfair.com
Odious article on female Twitter celebrities, mostly content-free - How Diverse is Facebook? | overstated
Fascinating report from Cameron Marlow et. al. about racial diversity on FB: It is, he says, and getting more so. - What happened to Hope Witsell « Sylvia Has A Problem
Amazing piece on adult reactions to overblown moral panics over stuff like "sexting" and SNS. - Frank talk with Lady Gaga -- latimes.com
God, I love her. - A High-Pitched Whine Brings ‘Fred’ to the Movies - NYTimes.com
YouTube star Fred Figglehorn (aka Lucas Cruikshank) cast in mainstream children's film. - The real thing?
Terrific study on luxury goods and "signaling." Of people who bought fake bags, 46% bought the real thing w/in two years. (I met her at Media in Transition a few years ago- v. v. smart lady) - “Pressure” - a metavid by the California Crew | In Media Res
- Game Studies - The Accidental Carjack: Ethnography, Gameworld Tourism, and Grand Theft Auto
Great article by Kiri Miller (Asst Prof @ Brown) on gameplay, tourism, & fieldwork. - slight paranoia: 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight
Amazing post by my friend Chris on how law enforcement uses isps/telcos for surveillance of citizens
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- 140 Characters Conference June 16-17, New York
- Association Of Internet Researchers (AOIR) October 7-11 2009, Milwaukee
- 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) October 28 – November 1, Washington, DC
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Blogroll
- Sivacracy My advisor, Siva Vaidhyanathan
- The Social Software Weblog Great blog on SNS & the like
- Futile.com Tech blog by one of my best friends, Mr. Ryan Lane.
- Academic Gamers “Serious discussion of all things Ludological.”
- Game Girl Advance
- Grand Text Auto Computer narrative, games, poetry & art.
- Wonderland Terrific tech/gamer blog by another woman named Alice.
- Stay Free! Daily Consumerism/advertising indie-adbusters zine’s blog.
- Utopian Hell Hot feminist gamer blog.
- CultureCat Academic feminist blog by a rhetorician.
- Terra Nova Blog about virtual worlds (Second Life, Sims, World of Warcraft, SWG, etc.)
- Crooked Timber Heavy-hitters of academia blog
- Popgadget Women’s “personal tech” (um, gadget) blog
- Feministing Excellent feminist daily news blog
- Michael Zimmer.org Fellow PhD student in DCC at NYU.
- Information Law Institute Student Association My nerdcore reading group / information policy law buddies
- Networked Publics Annenberg research group
- Nancy Baym’s Blog Queen of online fandom studies
- Confessions of an Aca/Fan Henry Jenkin’s blog
Industry Research
- ComScore Media Metrix Press Releases
- eMarketer.com Good source of info about what They’re up to
- Neilsen//Netratings Press Room
- Harris Interactive Some useful stats on internet use, blogging, etc.
- iMedia Connection Marketing portal: great source of facts/figures
- MediaPost Publications They have a terrific newsletter on online media
- Pew Internet and American Life Project The Grandmama of all Internet research sites
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