The following is a systems approach to the increasingly popular website Friendfeed. Recently, there have been many articles written about this site (I will provide links at the end of this post). I have written what follows through a Media Ecology systems framework with the hopes of “fleshing out” the system known as “Friendfeed.” The [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Communication Studies, Social Media, Uncategorized
| Tags: Aggregation, Aggregator, Blog, Business and Economy, FriendFeed, Information, Lifestream, media, Media Ecology, Neil Postman, Network, Sharing, Social Media, Social Networking Service, System, technology, Web 2.0, Web search engine |
Communications theorist Lee Thayer once wrote, “We ‘dilute’ the world by having an idea of it; and the intent of our words is, more often than not, to eliminate the world as resistance (Thayer 190).” As languaging creatures, our comprehension of the world is at once in direct contact with it (with certain spatial areas, [...]
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Posted in Communication Studies, Interface Humanities, Social Media
| Tags: Arts, Beauty, Communication, Communications, Computers, Efficiency, Facebook, Isolation, Language, Lee Thayer, life, microblogging, Mobile phone, Social Hybrid, Social Media, Social network, Society, technology, Telecommunication, Twitter, Web 3.0 |
Today, I read the following article which discusses speculations regarding Web 3.0 and asks the question, “What would you like Web 3.0 to be?” The article is from Soshable and can be read here: Soshable: Web 3.0
Webster defines “hybrid” in the following way:
1: an offspring of two animals or plants of different races, breeds, [...]
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Posted in Creative Expression, Social Media
| Tags: Brainstorm, Cyberspace, FriendFeed, Japan, Media Ecology, MySpace, Online Communities, Social Hybrid, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Networking Analysis, technology, Think Tank, Tower of Babel, Twitter, Twitters, Web 3.0, Web page |
Image from WikipediaThe study of Interface Humanities is a form of study introduced by Osaka University president and published philosopher, Kiyokazu Washida among others. The basis behind Interface Humanities seems to be the study of our use of interfaces and how they redefine “self” and “other.” Moreover, I think it can be the study and [...]
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Posted in Interface Humanities
| Tags: Asset Tracking, Business, CHIKUMA Ltd., Fashion, Interface Humanities, Japan, Kiyokazu Washida, Media Uniforms, Osaka University, RFID, technology, Tokyo, Tommy Lee Jones |
I recently read an interesting article, the title: “More Japanese cutting out the middleman with dating sims and sex toys” published in English translation on the Mainichi Daily News website. This article discusses the rising use of “dating” computer software games, masturbatory aids and frigidity common among young Japanese men (and women). My initial thoughts [...]
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