Entries in 'Social media'

Films, buzz, and present choices in past tense (pt 3)

July 19th, 2010 by Mihaela · No Comments

This is the third and final in a series of posts looking at people’s decision making behaviours regarding cinema visits in the age of social media, compared with our behaviours ten years ago. You can read the first post in this series here and the second post here.

Following post 2 where I [...]

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Films, buzz, and present choices in past tense (pt 2)

July 16th, 2010 by Mihaela · 1 Comment

This is the second in a series of posts looking at people’s decision making behaviours regarding cinema visits in the age of social media, compared with our behaviours ten years ago. You can read the first post in this series here.

I would like to start off by thanking everyone who took my survey. I shall [...]

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Media check-ins: Foursquare for telly (…and books and music)

July 12th, 2010 by Matt Rebeiro · No Comments

With the news that Foursquare has now notched up it’s first ‘million check-ins in one day‘, it’s with little surprise that there’s an increasing number of new apps and services attempting to horn in on Foursquare’s fairly lucrative racket. But rather than go toe-to-toe with the heavyweight champion of the check-in, these latest services are [...]

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Films, buzz, and present choices in past tense

July 6th, 2010 by Mihaela · 3 Comments

When asked to choose a research topic, I was genuinely interested in tracing how people made specific choices say, 10 years ago, and how one would go about doing the same today with the aid of social media. Hence, taking a very basic - but nevertheless deeply embedded in social media example - films, [...]

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Cognitive Surplus: eh what?

July 2nd, 2010 by Shona Ghosh · 4 Comments

Clay Shirky, talking head on social technology, the internet and technology’s effect on human behaviour, has a new book out. You’ve probably heard the book’s title “Cognitive Surplus” bandied about already. I was a little hazy over what this actually meant, so I headed along to the RSA to hear his explanation. I think I’ve [...]

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