Alice Marwick on celebrity theory

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

NYU PhD student Alice Marwick delivered an excellent keynote on Day 2 of ROFLCon last weekend, where LOLs and anecdotes were in abundance. Presenting some of her work on “social status and elitism in Web 2.0″ Marwick brought a badly needed breath of critical analysis to the conference. Ideas that stuck out to us, expanded [...]

Tinaec: the essay will be about me

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Tina’s back, and gunning for more hits than ever using… her sexuality. -So the rules of my contest are…. -you write a minimum of 500 words essay. -the essay will be about me, Tina, and how much you love me, my beauty and my singing voice and my videos. etc etc … -NO NEGATIVE ENTRies!!! [...]

Julia Allison starring in “Sex and the Blogosphere”

Monday, March 31st, 2008

New York Times’ video.on.nytimes declares famo gossip columnist & LJ-esque lifeblogger Julia Allison “the next Carrie Bradshow,” presumably because she publicly blabs about her relationships . Honestly I’m not sure; the video was way tl;dr. Julia’s apparently now also doing reality TV show with two of her friends, one of whom is a moustache. drama [...]