The future of media is being discussed both in London next Saturday 24 November at Goldsmiths University and online at the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Goldsmiths' The Futures of News has an interesting line-up which seems to be a cross between big names (Guido Fawkes, Michael White etc) adding their tuppence-worth to the "bloggers vs traditional media" debate and some more academic papers, such as News as national soft power: the emerging global English-language channels by Annabelle Sreberny, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Meanwhile, the JCMC's latest issue is guest edited by Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison. I've not read any of the articles but am looking forward to inwardly digesting all or some - including the following;
- Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube -
Based on a one-year ethnographic project, this article analyzes how YouTube participants developed and maintained social networks by manipulating physical and interpretive access to videos. The analysis identifies varying degrees of "publicness" in video sharing, depending on the nature of the video content and how much personal information is revealed. - Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites -
Are there systematic differences between people who use social network sites and those who stay away? Based on data from a survey administered to young adults, this article identifies demographic predictors of SNS usage, with particular focus on Facebook, MySpace, Xanga, and Friendster. - Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances -
A social network profile's lists of interests can function as an expressive arena for taste performance. Based on a semiotic approach, different types of taste statements are identified and further investigated through a statistical analysis of 127,477 profiles collected from MySpace.
[Via David Weinberger]
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