teenagers
Tumblr has transformed into a brand-safe zombie of its former self Paid Members Public
An interview with a Verizon suit makes it clear that Tumblr is a hollow shell of what it once was. What does this say for the experimentation the web once offered?
Teaching a teenager about social media Paid Members Public
Apparently a student on work experience at The Telegraph [http://tmgacademy.weebly.com/jashana.html] enjoyed my training: > One of the highlights during my week here, was getting the chance to attend a course with Adam Tinworth , a lecturer and journalist, called ‘Writing for the Web’. This course was all
Are you ready for your corporate approved social interaction experience? Paid Members Public
Cliff Watson [https://medium.com/understandings-epiphanies/aae8d5f880cc]: > You see, we’ve come to define “social” in unintentional Orwellian double-speak. “Social” has come to mean the exact opposite of what it’s meant for centuries. Instead of actual interaction and communication, we define “social” as once- or twice-removed ego validation through
Teenagers and tech: look at the trends, not the tools? Paid Members Public
Mathew Ingram responds to Farhad Manjoo on how telling teenagers’ use of tech is [http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/why-the-youth-market-matters-for-snapchat-and-facebook-despite-what-the-wsj-thinks/] : > […] teens and twenty-somethings are good predictors of technology’s future, even if the services or apps or hardware they prefer at a specific point in time don’t become
Teenagers: not, in fact, natural futurologists Paid Members Public
Do we put too much faith in the idea that teenagers are a good predictor of technology trends [http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303559504579202623459037550?mod=WSJ_hp_EditorsPicks] ? > Yet the vast majority of your most-used things weren’t initially popular among teens. The iPhone, the iPad, the iPod, the
Le Web: danah boyd on Social Network Visibility Paid Members Public
 [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/12/danah-boyd-at-Le-Web.jpg] Your experience of the social web is not the same as everyone else’s. Your experience of the web is shaped
21st Century Work Experience for Aspiring Journos Paid Members Public
I hope you’ll excuse me another link to the Estates Gazette Focus team’s blog (I used to be part of that team, and I have a huge soft spot for them), but I’m just loving that they’ve been allowing their work experience teenager to blog for
Le Web 3: danah boyd on Youth Culture Paid Members Public
danah boyd gave a break-neck pace presentation of youth culture and its interaction with MySpace earlier. I couldn’t blog it at the time, because I’d lost all connection to my blog server, but all seems well again. It gives some idea of the importance she places on MySpace’
