Category Archives: social media

Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many).

Memesurfing: iSlate and Social Media

By Ian Delaney | Published January 25, 2010

There is a fever of anticipation over the imminent release of a tablet-style computer from Apple – let’s call it the iSlate [Thursday Update - actually, let's call it the iPad - I stand by everything else in the post, though].
Nobody outside the company knows very much about how it works or its specifications, but [...]

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Wonky Rungs

By Ian Delaney | Published January 22, 2010

Groundswell – the Forrester Research social media blog – has produced an update to its engagement ladder diagram:

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Making is… Making?

By Ian Delaney | Published January 21, 2010

My estwhile colleague, the excellent David Gauntlett, has posted a new video about the work towards his next book Making is Connecting:

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Social Media Done Well: One Frame at a Time

By Ian Delaney | Published January 15, 2010

You may well have seen this already, but there’s a lovely interactive campaign being carried out by Dutch indie band C-Mon & Kypski. (Note: never heard of them; don’t care; bring back The Smiths).
The idea is that fans can collaborate with the band in their latest music video. You use your webcam to imitate a [...]

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The Social Media Guru

By Ian Delaney | Published December 14, 2009

YouTube – The Social Media Guru.
Have you even read my online internet blog? It’s mega-awesome.

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The Consequences of Counting

By Ian Delaney | Published May 28, 2009

(Or, for those enjoying the puns, Nashional Guard.)
Every social media destination has some sort of scoring mechanism:

Twitter followers
Linked-In contacts
Facebook friends
Blog subscribers/comments

Those are the four I personally use most consistently, though I dip in and out of all the others to see what’s happening. They all have an equivalent.
What’s the result of those scores? Bigger is [...]

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Foucault – the lot of you

By Ian Delaney | Published May 27, 2009

The Foucault post yesterday seemed to go down well, so I thought I’d chance my arm and respond to a couple of criticisms in a new post rather than the comment thread. Sorry, purists.
My erstwhile-friend Roger from Content & Motion launched the first counter-offensive. ;-) His main point is about the decentralisation of power in [...]

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Surrender! Foucault and Twitter

By Ian Delaney | Published May 27, 2009

Some of my early hopes for social media, that it represented, like Kevin Kelly reckons, some kind of renaissance for socialism in the western world, are starting to run dry.
There’s a splendid series of articles over at O’Reilly Media concerning the dark side of social media by Joshua-Michéle Ross. The first of these, The Digital [...]

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Re-Reading Web 2.0 Infographics

By Ian Delaney | Published May 11, 2009

We love our infograms, don’t we, the digerati, the twittering classes? These information graphics, or data visualisations. I don’t think there’s another field of the social sciences quite so keen on complicated graphs that half-explain themselves and suggest transparency and half are a subtle appeal to the imagination.
Because these images are machine-generated, there’s a temptation [...]

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Islands in the Stream

By Ian Delaney | Published April 29, 2009

Twitter is about the real-time web; being in the flow. Once you’re following more than 100 people, it becomes an entirely different experience to instant messaging or Facebook. It feels like one of those adverts for the Information Superhighway in the 1990s: people and objects and destinations rush by. Sometimes you’ll stop and check in, [...]

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