Web 2.0 / Social Media – Page 7

Hit, Link, Like and Share. Organizing the social and the fabric of the web in a Like economy.

Update: A rewritten version of thisÂ paper has been published in New Media & Society. Please use the following citation:Â Gerlitz, Carolin, and Anne Helmond. 2013. â€œThe Like Economy: Social Buttons and the Data-Intensive Web.â€ New Media & Society 15 (8): 1348â€“65. doi:10.1177/1461444812472322. [link] Co-authored paper by: Carolin Gerlitz (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Anne Helmond (University… Read more Hit, Link, Like and Share. Organizing the social and the fabric of the web in a Like economy.

Posted on April 16, 2011March 6, 2016 by Anne

How Groupon hurts loyal customers

I went to the gym and I could hardly park my bike which made me wonder if there was a special event going on. As I entered the gym it was incredibly busy and the first thing that came to mind was “Oh no, not Groupon” which was immediately confirmed with a sign at the… Read more How Groupon hurts loyal customers

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Anne

Digital Folklore and the return of praise for the User in Web 2.0

On November 9, 2010 Olia Lialina presented her new book on Digital Folklore. The book describesÂ the aesthetics of the amateur web which has been Lialina’s object of study for the past ten years. The book reflects on amateur culture as the basis of the Web; the web that has been built by us, the amateurs.… Read more Digital Folklore and the return of praise for the User in Web 2.0

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Anne

The Like, the Share and the (Re)Tweet as pre-configured links

Within my research I am currently focussing on the notion of links as the currency of the Web (Walker 2002) and to what extend that still holds up in Web 2.0. Together with Carolin Gerlitz from Goldsmith, University of London we are investigation to what extent the Like, the Share and the (re)Tweet are new… Read more The Like, the Share and the (Re)Tweet as pre-configured links

Posted on September 29, 2010September 26, 2011 by Anne

How Web 1.0 is the Issuecrawler?

This is the transcript of the Digital Methods Initiative Advanced Program Projects week 2 opening talk on Issuecrawler 1.0 and Social Media by Anne Helmond. The 2.0 denotes an â€˜improvedâ€™ or progressional version of the web that builds upon and develops Web 1.0. […] Implicitly rooted in this vision of the web is a sense… Read more How Web 1.0 is the Issuecrawler?

Posted on August 18, 2010September 26, 2011 by Anne