Thereal-time,ever-updatingnatureofTwittermadeitpar-ticularlyamenabletolive-tweetingeventssuchastheFergusonprotestsastheyhappened,andhashtagsprovedidealfororga-nizingsuchtweetssothatthoseparticipatingeitheronsiteorfromafarcouldengage
This is very interesting to hear. I didn’t know that
thehashtagremains,andisusedforanastonishingarrayofsocial,cultural,andpoliticalpurposes—someofthemvitallyuseful,notallofthemserious,andsomeofthemdownrighttox
I believe hashtags can be a great source- luckily I feel Twitters cracking down on the like the complete nonsense hashtags
Whilesomeuserswereexperiment-ingatthisstagewithhashtags,theideawasnottakenupmuchuntilaparticularlyacuteandsufficientlysignificantevent
It’s interesting to hear the fires are what pushed the usage of hashtags
consistsofthehashsymbol(#)i
I never knew this was called a hash symbol - I always referred to it at pound
Contestation
"To debate"
WithlaterredesignscametheNotificationstab,whichcol-latedallmetricsofattention,including©repliesor©mentions,retweets,andfavorites(orlikes);andasofearly2019separated“©mentions”outfromlikesandretweets.Theaggregation,andcounting,ofthesemarkersofconversationalitycreatedanewsetofmetrics,andwiththatanewsetofaspirationsandex-ploitsthatcontinuetoreshapetheplatform.
This is very interesting, I remember when this update happened. I never thought it lead to reshaping the platform as a whole.
Twitterasamechanismforprovidingatomisticstatusupdatesratherthanfordiscussionandongoinginteraction.
It's interesting to see how much the usage of twitter has changed as I had no idea how it was originally used before this reading.
Thisuseofthe@symbolprecedinganotherusersnamestartedtobecomearegularconventionforaddressingotherusers
From my time on Twitter, this has been the most common way "@" was used - to "tag" a certain account.
Theinte-grationofTwitterintomobilephonesfromthestartwaspartofaburgeoningofnewplatformsthattookadvantageofmobilemediatointegratelocationinformationintosocialnetwork-ing.
This statement is interesting to hear as I didn't know Twitter was the platform to kickstart this.
Continuity
Uninterrupted, continuous connection between the means and the end.
Nieborg and Helmond (2019) argued that a consumer–producer orien-tation to platforms misses their engagements with “multisided markets where platforms facilitate interactions between distinct ‘sides’ or ‘us-ers’, which include end-users (i.e. consumers), businesses (e.g. content developers), advertisers, and others” (p. 201).
I agree with this claim
ncreases in computational power have rapidly improved companies’ means of capture and their ubiquity
I feel as a society we notice this happening more with nearly all social media sites
Grindr. Released in 2009, Grindr is a geolocative mobile applica-tion with over 3.8 million daily active users who are primarily men-who-have-sex-with-men, as well as transwomen and non-binary individuals (Bucksense & Grindr, 2018).
I had no idea grinder has been around since 2009.
This dimension—which relates to the information memes convey about their own communica-tion—is labeled here as stance
I never considered memes as forms of communication until reading about the analysis breakdown
behavior-driven memetics sees memes as behaviors and artifacts rather than ideas.
This is interesting to hear as I was unaware of how deep the understanding/ meaning of memes on the internet
genotype–phenotype dichotomy
Was unsure of what this meant until I did my own research
First, the intense emotions and dramatic statements characterizing both sides of the memes debate need to be toned down.
I was completely unaware of any conflict caused by memes.
intertextuality
The relations of texts, and how they are interperated.
Gangnam—a luxurious neighborhood in Seoul
Something I was unaware of... Pretty cool.
Webpageschangewitheverypageview.AndmostofthecompaniesthatplacetheadsontheWebsitetrackyourmovementsacrosstheNet,‘remembering’whichadsyou’veseen,exactlywhenyousawthem,whetheryouclickedonthem,whereyouwereatthetime,andthesiteyouhavevisitedjustbefore.”2
It's interesting learning that web pages tracked your movement / interactions with certain ad's before smartphones and social media.
mediaassets"
Owned productions or can be controlled
InHollywoodfilms,flocksofbirds,antcolonies,andcrowdsofpeopleareautomaticallycreatedbyAL(artificiallife)software
I alway wondered about this, i'll never be able to unsee it now
inthe1880s,thefirsttelevisionsys-sternsalreadyinvolvedstandardizationofsamplingbothintimeandspace.
Very interesting learning that television development dates back into the 1880's.
digitization
transferring analog data to a digital form.
unencumbered
Free of any ownership.
More narrativeformations emerged from flip books (1868)because of their linear nature.All of theseobjects were viewer-activated, intended foran audience of one or few in closeproximity to the image.
I loved flip books as a kid! its pretty insightful hearing that a GIF is the technology version of a flip book - I personally never made the connection between the two.
It has a creator who is unknown ordeemphasized
Kind of interesting to hear that something so widely spread on the internet (GIFs) has an unknown or deemphasized creator.