Famo class of Fall 2007
Famo class of Fall 2008

Offered in Parsons graduate Design & Technology program, Internet Famous Class is dedicated to learning how to spread your work to the widest possible audience online. It's also the first algorithmically graded class in the history of academics.

Our Famotron software measures the online attention economy — view counts, blog links, social media activity, followers and their influence — and awards students their final letter grade. more...

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NYU PhD’s evangelize the famo @ SXSW

Interview with Alice Marwick, PhD candidate at NYU: “It’s important to recognize that internet fame, [it] doesn’t mean the ideas being discussed in these elite circles make it outside one particular sphere or social milieu.”

FYI the Warhol-esque “famous to fifteen people” quote is from the artist Momus, from a
1997 usenet post. Being internet famous is a hot subject these days but the subject is as old as pop. Hark, oldmeme!

Seriously though, her overview is so succinct it chokes me up. We should hire her. Or at least subscribe to her blog.

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