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Avatar is acting as a “global Rorschach test”. What’s so cross-culturally appealing about this movie that’s attracting huge audiences in countries as different as US, China, UK, Germany, France, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Japan?
Partly it’s the eye-popping visuals and ...
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This year’s Online Community Unconference (West) was held June 10 in Mountain View, CA with 200+ attendees.
Six things I learned:
#1) We are still in early days with online communities – especially communities related to corporate entities — communities ...
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Online “riots” or protests are not random, despite appearing to be spontaneous. They have patterns. One pattern is a set of emergent roles that individuals assume. People take on one or more roles based on the individual’s interest and ...
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Panelists: James Gee (professor, Arizona State), Henry Jenkins (professor at MIT, moving to USC), Warren Spector (Creative Director, Disney Interactive, game maker).
Topic of this panel: how games are bringing learning out of schools and into the ...
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Ivan Askwith (Big Spaceship), Abigail De Kosnik (Professor UC Berkeley), Henry Jenkins (professor currently with MIT, transitioning to USC). Each panelist had a short talk/presentation, followed by Q&A.
Ivan’s talk:
Who are fans? Fandom often makes ...
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My notes from the SxSW panel “Are PR Agencies a Dying Breed?” “In a world riddled with ADD, where TMI blogging and DIY reporting are the norm, are PR agencies still relevant?” Overall a good panel; 70+ people attending. ...
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I’ll be posting my notes on several of the SxSw panels over the next few days. My notes, all errors mine.
Building Strong Online Communities
Panelists: Ken Fisher (Ars ...
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The continued mainstreaming of social media has resulted a fountain of speculation about the future of social networking, always-on connectivity and the increasingly ubiquitous internet. The usual sides are being taken between technophiles and ...
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BusinessWeek has an excellent article on ThisNext, a social network around shopping and style. This is a good read for anybody looking for a short case study overview and example of a business model around user generated content.
(For more ...
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Temple Grandin, in her new book Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals talks about the “core emotion systems in the brain” and that humans and ...
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In November 2008, I participated in a panel at the American Anthropological Association conference. The panel compared the worldviews of different professions, including anthropology, industrial design, architecture, engineering, etc.
I focused on the worldview of business managers. A lot ...