TheWayoftheWeb

I happened to catch an item on television featuring Aric Sigman, who was talking about his paper on the ‘biological implications of social networking’, or, as every media appearance has titled it – how social networks are killing us. Online Networks ‘harm health’ in the case of the BBC.
Sadly his paper is behind a paid [...]

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Which is obvious if you’re into social media, communication, conversation and social networking, but less apparent if you’re used to broadcasting out messages.
If that’s the case, I highly recommend this post by Mindy McAdams ‘Social Media, Youtube and Mwesch’.
Especially as it gives everyone yet another good reason to check out Michael Wesch’s absolutely brilliant cultural [...]

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Funnily enough, I’d just finished reading a piece about social shopping by David Cushman when I checked the top five viral videos for last week (from viralvideochart). In at number five, behind Barack Obama’s ‘A more perfect union‘, and Boston Dynamics very cool Big Dog, was the flipside of the social shopping concept – this [...]

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