Max Dawson
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"Positive" and "Negative" Images
I second Caja's point that there is much to be learned by examining advertising images of senior citizens' interactions with digital devices. So much scholarship on new media seems to reproduce technology manufacturers' and marketers' ... -
Remote Free, But Not Free of Commercials...
JP – Great post – I really look forward to hearing you elaborate on these ideas at the workshop this summer. You’ve suggested that “The implications of such a shift [toward “remote free TV”] would be quite apparent; fewer, shorter commercial breaks = long ... -
Digg, Web2.0, and Conspicuous (Information) Consumption
James – I’m really intrigued by this notion that achieving Internet fame is form of technological labor. I’d be interested to hear your take on how this labor is or is not like the forms of labor Mark Andrejevic describes as the “work of being watched”: i ... -
The audience has become redundant
Avi – Echoing Liz and JP, your post is a fitting way to cap off a week of productive discussions. Your post inspires me to ask if there is a term we might use to describe these forms of faux-viral or-user generated content and/or the processes that produc ... -
Re: "'You know what my favorite promotion is? Lost!' The ongoing convergence of content and promotion"
Audiences/Satire
Thanks for your feedback, Liz and Avi. RE: audience responses to these forms of “promotainment”: while we typically hear a great deal about audience (or critic) backlash against product placements and integrations (see the recent uproar against the 30 Roc ... -
Stunting, Archiving, and the Aesthetics of Ephemerality
Liz – your post and videos do an excellent job of inaugurating this week’s discussion, and of introducing some of the themes that we will be exploring at Nottingham this summer. As I’m a little late to the discussion, I wanted to address a few of the othe ...