I will be teaching Social Media & Audience Profiling next week in the UCI Extension Business School. As part of the course materials, I made a PowerPoint presentation explaining some of the basics of network properties to provide some background. Call me crazy, but I think it helps to understand a little of the theory of how networks work if you're going to make the most of social media. (They are posted on YouTube in three parts because Jing Pro has a 5 minute limit. I hear Camtasia for MacOS is in Beta!) … [Read more...]
Dynamic Linking of Political Discourse: The New Party Line
June 25, 2008 By 1 Comment
I mean party line like the 'old days' on a telephone--no political pun intended. A colleague sent around this Presidential Watch 08 Map of the Political Blogosphere. I like it because it shows the interrelatedness and dynamic linking of professional and nonprofessional discourse on the Internet. It is a wonderful--and aesthetically beautiful--example of the integration of information technology with information distribution. We are no longer having conversations in isolation, we are on the ultimate party line, albeit with radical improvements from when my Grandmother used to holler at eavesdroppers to get off the line. We can all hear what each other has to say, professionals and nonprofessionals alike, without risking the wrath of my grandmother. And as this mapping shows, everyone does listen to everyone. The flows do not go only one way. When we are using the internet to watch internet information flows, it is no longer about the technology, it’s about people and what … [Read more...]
