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Narrative Authority: Can Institutional Respect Be Crowd-Sourced?

By Shoq, on March 6, 2010, at 10:51 am

Who Says: Narrative Authority In a Fragmented World

Jay Rosen tweeted this seminal post by Megan Garber, articulating what the web and digital media are doing to authority memes and journalism's role in this bizarre new world.

Since the need to manage the tangled and competing taxonomic hierarchies of such a Narrative Big Brother has been

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March 6th, 2010 | Category: Accountability, Internet, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Politics, Shoqs Ideas, Social Media, Technology, Uncategorized | View Comments

Has the web lost your mind?

By Shoq, on February 14, 2010, at 10:59 am

In an inadequately brief, but crucially important review or what is sure to be an even more important and discussed book, Ellen Ullman, asks, "is the wisdom of  the crowd, actually a lie?" 

A self-confessed "humanistic softie," Jaron Lanier is fighting to wrest control of technology from the "ascendant tribe" of technologists who believe

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February 14th, 2010 | Category: Internet, Media, Politics, Social Media, Technology | View Comments

Has Social Media Ruined the Internet?

By Shoq, on January 19, 2010, at 9:26 am

I missed "Why this Decade Sucked," by Ed Edroso, back in December. Wish I hadn't. While it's over the top in spots, by and large, it's spot on,  and reminds me of Norman Solomon's words in the mid 90s, when he quite rightly warned that the Internet would empower the status quo, while

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January 19th, 2010 | Category: Analysis and Impact, Explainers & Primers, Internet, Media, Politics, Social Media, Technology, Twitter | View Comments

Why Twitter matters, and why it will endure.

By Shoq, on January 2, 2010, at 9:28 am

In "Why Twitter Will Endure,"  New York Time's education and media czar, David Carr, writes perhaps the best overall description of Twitter and its overall value to civilization, better than anyone I've read in quite awhile. It's still not going to help your grandma understand Twitter, but it may help any of your

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January 2nd, 2010 | Category: Analysis and Impact, Social Media, Technology, Twitter | View Comments

The new Twitter retweets: be afraid.

By Shoq, on November 11, 2009, at 7:29 pm

The new Twitter retweet system has been unleashed, and it's a classic example of taking something that worked, and breaking it. Rather than simplify something most regular Twitter users understood and used rather creatively, they have now created a hybrid pastiche of behaviors where retweets will mean different things to different people, depending on how

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November 11th, 2009 | Category: Retweets, Support, Technology, Twitter, Twitter Tips | View Comments