Hector Postigo’s presentation develops a framework for understanding how social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
Podcast, Gediminas Urbonas
Gediminas Urbonas is artist and educator, and co-founder (with Nomeda Urbonas) of Urbonas Studio – an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture.
Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media”
Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, asks how direct access to fans changes what it means to be an artist.
ROFLCon 2012
“Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel.”
Podcast, Craig Watkins: “Exploring the Digital Practices of Black and Latino Youth”
Craig Watkins studies young people’s social and digital media behaviors. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin.
Podcast: Anne Balsamo, “Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work”
In her transmedia project, Designing Culture, Anne Balsamo investigates the way in which culture influences the process of technological innovation.
Podcast: Philip Napoli, “Social Media, Television, and the Evolution of the ‘Institutionally Effective’ Audience”
Philip Napoli on enabling and inhibiting TV’s incorporation of social media and their implications for audience representation and cultural production.
