Facebook began trading publicly on NASDAQ nearly six months ago, on May 18, 2012, at the initial offering price of $38 a share. Despite unprecedented anticipation and early trading volume, the company’s share price soon declined, and it currently hovers around the $19 mark. One of the reasons for this decline stems from an issue […]
Announcement: Hector Postigo to give talk at MIT
Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You Location and Time: Comparative Media Studies (CMS) Program, MIT Cambridge, MA E14-633. November 15th, 2012 at 5 pm. Talk open to the public This presentation develops a theoretical framework (rooted in Science and Technology Studies) for understanding how, generally, social media’s technical […]
Special Issue of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (vol. 56, issue 3, 2012) has released a special open access issue that focuses on social mediated publicness. The issue is guest edited by danah boyd and Nancy Baym of Microsoft Research. The editor of JOBEM is Zizi Papacharissi, one of Culture Digitally’s participants. Here is the link to […]
Announcements: Daniel Kreiss to give talk at Cornell University and Ted Striphas to give talk at Temple University
Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama and the 2012 Elections Daniel Kreiss October 29, 4:15-5:30pm 700 Clark Hall Cornell University Update: Due to Hurricane Sandy, Daniel Kreiss’ talk has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience. Kriess tells the previously untold history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning from […]
The Habitus of the New
Inspired by an exchange between Zizi and Tom that began just after our first workshop in 2011, I asked if we could use Zizi’s idea (itself built on Bourdieu’s work) of the “habitus of the new” as the opening salvo in a dialogue about how to think the “state of permanent novelty” that seems to […]