ISBN:
9780670020843
Language:
English
Pages:
202 p
,
ill
,
24 cm
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Internet Social aspects
;
Information society Psychological aspects
;
Internet users Psychology
;
Blogs Social aspects
;
Internet
;
Soziologie
;
Psychologie
Abstract:
And Then There's This is Bill Wasik's journey along the unexplored frontier of the twenty-first century's rambunctious new-media culture. He covers this world in part as a journalist, following "buzz bands" as they rise and fall in the online music scene, visiting with viral marketers and political trendsetters and online provocateurs. But he also wades in as a participant, conducting his own hilarious experiments: an e-mail fad (which turned into the worldwide "flash mob" sensation), a viral website in a month-long competition, a fake blog that attempts to create "antibuzz," and more. --from publisher description
Abstract:
And Then There's This is Bill Wasik's journey along the unexplored frontier of the twenty-first century's rambunctious new-media culture. He covers this world in part as a journalist, following "buzz bands" as they rise and fall in the online music scene, visiting with viral marketers and political trendsetters and online provocateurs. But he also wades in as a participant, conducting his own hilarious experiments: an e-mail fad (which turned into the worldwide "flash mob" sensation), a viral website in a month-long competition, a fake blog that attempts to create "antibuzz," and more. --from publisher description
Description / Table of Contents:
My crowd (The Mob Project) -- Annuals (Stop Peter Bjorn and John ) -- I have a meme (The right-wing New York Times) -- Agent Zero (Bill Shiller) -- Nanopolitics (Oppodepot.com).
Note:
Includes index
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Contributor biographical information
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