Temple Dept. of Department of Media Studies & Production
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We Have Always Been Social . . . And we will always be social. … “To term some media social implies that there are other media that are perhaps anti-social, or even not social at all—asocial. It also invites comparisons between media based on how social each medium is. But each medium is social in […]
Hello Culture Digitally Community! Zizi Papacharissi, one of our esteemed contributors, has taken on the editorship of the open access journal Social Media and Society. Tarleton Gillespie and I, along with other members of our community, are on the editorial board and have made contributions to its inaugural issue, here. We thank Zizi for her […]
It’s now my pleasure to fill our readers in on a great recently published piece by my fellow Culture Digitally co-founder Tarleton Gillespie and our community’s friend and colleague Kate Crawford, from Microsoft Research’s Social Media Collective. Their article is titled, “What is a Flag For? Social Media Reporting Tools and the Vocabulary of Complaint” in New Media […]
Fixation: The fixing process is important to me theoretically because it’s a cross cutting term. Fixing suggests that capture is not just a matter of direct representation but of representation in a particular way. So, in so much as platforms, or networks of platforms, capture and fix, they do so with a certain plan. In as […]
For businesses building digital platforms capture is both a technical and social problem and invitation is one way of addressing it. How do you build technologies that efficiently allow any user (young, older, in North America or in Africa) to capture various facets of social life? The technological answer to the problem is not necessarily […]