The second issue of Limn, titled “Crowds and Clouds,” has just been published. My own piece is a slightly expanded version of my essay, posted here first, called “Can an Algorithm Be Wrong?” But there are a number of other essays that will be of great interest to this audience, including a contribution from Culture […]
Announcement: Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News Storytelling on #Egypt
Zizi Papacharissi just published a new article in the Journal of Communication. Her article, authored with Maria de Fatima Oliveira, is titled Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News Storytelling on #Egypt. (Click on title for a link to the paper.) The article examined Twitter use during the Arab Spring uprisings between Jan. 2011 and Feb. […]
The 2008 Obama Campaign and Online Advertising
There have been a number of recent pieces looking at online political advertising during the 2012 campaign. I have written a bit about both the innovations in merging voter files with online usage data and its democratic implications, as well as the limitations of big data, but I wanted to go back here to the […]
Five more points
Culture Digitally is now a year old, and we are extremely grateful to the initial cadre of participants, the guest bloggers, and all of the readers that have helped make it a vibrant place for the circulation of ideas and research around digital cultural production. As part of the NSF award that supports Culture Digitally, […]
Participatory Culture in Hyperspace
I stumbled upon this interesting post about BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. This is a striking example of what Henry Jenkins would call participatory culture. It seems that prior to local servers coming online players in the Pacific Rim devised a way of creating unofficial “servers within servers” using the in-game guild system. By […]