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Communities of taste, social media and lame demographics

by Susan Cato on February 2, 2011 · 0 comments

I recently viewed a TED talk by Johanna Blakley “Social Media and the end of Gender” (available on TED) – highlighting how social media levels the playing field with traditional demographic groups such as gender, age or race and focuses more on “communities of taste” – groups with a common interest, passion or purpose. I [...]

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Dr. Michael Wesch and the Future of Whatever

by Susan Cato on August 20, 2009 · 1 comment

In this presentation, Dr. Michael Wesch (Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography @ Kansas State Univeristy) explores the history and future of “whatever” and its relationship to how the online world is changing us, how we relate to each other, and what we are all going to do about it. Going from “whatever [...]

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The web IS changing us

by scato on January 10, 2008 · 0 comments

I never get tired of this – it’s a very thoughtful perspective on how the Internet is changing our lives, our culture and our sense of community…and to think that 5 years ago, we all thought that the Internet would cause people to stop talking to each other. Now people are connecting with each other [...]

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