Archive: social media

• I’m a Happy Farmer

  By Shu January 24, 2012

  This is my everyday routine on the Internet: check e-mail, go through Renren and Facekbook, read quick news on Twitter and Weibo, and harvest my crops and cultivate my land. Yes, I am a farmer in Hap

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: cyberspace world, happy farm, online friendship, online game, social game, social media, virtual community, virtual life

• 'The End of Mass Media'? A Doubtful Proposition

  By jhubanks@gmail.com December 9, 2011

  Are we witnessing ‘the end of mass media’? Some say we are, but I beg to differ. While it’s true that media are becoming increasingly decentralized and disparate—scattered across audiences, technolog

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: bbc, CCT, CNN, daily beast, elites, Fox News, gawker, Georgetown, Huffington Post, indexing, mass media, matthew hindman, media elites, media establishment, media evolution, media indexing, media studies, MSNBC, new media, New York Times, news of the world, political elites, Reporting, scandal, social media, steven livingston, the cheat sheet, the end of mass media, the myth of human democracy, the wall street journal, w. lance bennett, Washington Post

• Two-Step Tweets: Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks

  By jhubanks@gmail.com November 14, 2011

  As media effects scholarship has evolved over the decades, media has always been understood to perform an important and influential function in society. Questions of whom media influence, with what e

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: comm theory, communication theory, culture industry, facebook, hypodermic model, identity, influence, lasswell, media studies, occupy oakland, Occupy Wall Street, online influence, opinion makers, political communication, politics, public sphere, social media, technological determination, technology, tweets, twitter, two-step flow

• OK, So I know I’m not my own Grandpa, but could I be my own Big Brother?

  By abc55@georgetown.edu October 25, 2011

  [caption id="attachment_2930" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Flickr photo by Max-B"][/caption] Anyone who knows me well will be quick to tell you that I am notorious for leaving my cell phone

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: law, privacy, SMS, social media, surveillance, technology, ubiquity, Willie Nelson

• Media Mash-up: When Old and New Worlds Collide

  By jhubanks@gmail.com October 4, 2011

  I’ve got this idea in my head. Maybe you’ll bear with me as I try putting it into words. The line separating traditional ‘old’ media from social ‘new’ media is blurring. Once distinct, the two forms

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: @washingtonpost, arab spring, bbc, CNN, egypt, facebook, libya, new media, New York Times, nyt, nytimes, revolution, social media, twitter, wapo, Washington Post