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KajustaKajusta Registered User regular
edited April 2008 in Social Entropy++
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Can the internet and its celebrities change the status quo? Of course they can, but do they?

Those were the questions posed by Alice Marwick, Saturday's keynote speaker at ROFLCon. Marwick, who is a a Ph.D. candidate at New York University and studies social status and hierarchy in Web 2.0 cultures, thinks it's time for internet community to use their power for good.

The internet, it turns out, is actually serious business.

"Rather than fuel a cycle of novelty, let's use this media as a valid alternative," said Marwick. "Let's challenge or change the views that we're subverting from."

Marwick pointed out that while microcelebrity is a positive alternative to mainstream big media culture, it's important to turn a critical eye on online communities. "Internet culture can be very sexist, homophobic and racist," said Marwick. "Popular blogs are all written by white guys .... and the most popular YouTube videsos are of hot girls."

Marwick went on to discuss whether internet celebrity may even be becoming more important that Hollywood, or traditional models of celebrity. If so, then it's even more crucial to not allow fame, "a drug of validation," to muddy it up.
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/04/post.html

So apparently the internet is serious business, as described by some soon-to-be PhD person-lady.

Use this thread to discuss memes or some shit, fuck, I don't know.

INTERNET POWERS, ACTIVATE!

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