Life on the Move: Social Network Roundtable audio now up
Last week I attended the Association of Internet Researchers’ 9th annual conference, this time in Copenhagen Denmark. One of the things I did there was participate in a roundtable about social...
View ArticleBlogs vs Twitter? It’s the Interactivity
In a post that appeared remarkably soon after my last post in which I noted that I am easier to find on Twitter than on Online Fandom these days, Rob Walker of Murketing and Buying In fame, expressed...
View ArticleThe 6 Types of Last.fm Friends
I’ve been continuing to analyze the data I collected about friendships on Last.fm. Last week I presented a paper at Internet Research 10.0 in Milwaukee co-authored with Kiley Larson, Andrew Ledbetter,...
View ArticleWhy, despite myself, I am not leaving Facebook. Yet.
As my Facebook friends and Twitter followers know, like many others I’m angry at Facebook. I haven’t written a blog post about it because so many others have been making most of my points so eloquently...
View ArticleWhere MySpace Went Wrong And What It Can Still Do Right
This week MySpace announced it is laying off half of its workforce. This follows an attempt at rebranding itself as a “social entertainment hub,” a new and widely-ridiculed logo, and a warning from...
View ArticleFans or Friends?
Last weekend I gave a talk at the International Communication Association about the increasingly interpersonal nature of the relationships between musicians and friends. In it, I draw on the interviews...
View ArticleFans or Friends? An interview
I recently did an interview with Dave Cool for Bandzoogle’s blog. We covered topics like how social media have affected online fandom, benefits and challenges of social media, whether bands need to use...
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