ROFLCON Talk Notes
Posted: April 29th, 2008 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: Conferences, internet fame | 3 Comments »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!
[...] Ideas that stuck out to us, expanded by her recently released lecture notes. [...]
Thank-you for posting your lecture notes, it’s very interesting reading. I thought this was the most important idea:
“We use the term “celebrity” because that’s the best word we have to describe a new type of subjectivity, a new type of understanding person-hood and individuality that necessitates a mass society: an audience. And this type of performance is linked to the permeation of the logic of celebrity into the fabric of our day to day lives.”
It’s also interesting what you said about high requirements of authenticity. I think the fact that internet celebs are required to be more authentic than those in mass media indicate the degree to which consumers of internet media actually believe that they’re not already co-opted by corporate media. It’s unfortunate that many of the discourses in corporate media are parroted by internet media because internet media doesn’t have a well-developed self-describing language and isn’t terribly self-aware (except for ironic lulz, of course). I think its awesome that you’re trying to inject new language & consciousness into a community that needs to know it was never required to behave in the same manner as corporate media.
awesome talk. I’m really kicking myself for missing this con. consider me subscribed.