Comments on: Experts say … http://futureoftheinternet.org/experts Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:14:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Seth Finkelstein http://futureoftheinternet.org/experts/comment-page-1#comment-8824 Seth Finkelstein Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:04:51 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=779#comment-8824 FYI, did you see my Twitter column from a little while ago? "Twitter: sucker's game that boosts elite" http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/07/twitter-is-a-suckers-game Bingo - "And Twitter evangelism has gone down a path similar to blog evangelism. There is the same two-step of arguing: roughly, it can be both diary/chat and journalism, thus a promoter can switch back and forth between those two concepts whenever convenient." Also: "Twitter is low-level celebrity for the chattering class" The chattering class really likes a story of chatter overthrowing a repressive government, truth is irrelevant. FYI, did you see my Twitter column from a little while ago?

“Twitter: sucker’s game that boosts elite”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/07/twitter-is-a-suckers-game

Bingo – “And Twitter evangelism has gone down a path similar to blog evangelism. There is the same two-step of arguing: roughly, it can be both diary/chat and journalism, thus a promoter can switch back and forth between those two concepts whenever convenient.”

Also:
“Twitter is low-level celebrity for the chattering class”
The chattering class really likes a story of chatter overthrowing a repressive government, truth is irrelevant.

]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://futureoftheinternet.org/experts/comment-page-1#comment-8816 Seth Finkelstein Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:27:36 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=779#comment-8816 Funny - I've been thinking something similar, but from almost the reverse angle. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2009/tc20090617_803990.htm ""Social media is not at all a prime mover of what is happening on the ground," says Ethan Zuckerman, a senior researcher at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "The reason social media is so interesting [for the press] is that the international media doesn't have its members on the ground."" And I still think twitter is inane. This is actually a perfect case study of the unholy alliance between techno-hypers and the media beast which must be fed with punditry, no matter how vapid. Funny – I’ve been thinking something similar, but from almost the reverse angle.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2009/tc20090617_803990.htm

“”Social media is not at all a prime mover of what is happening on the ground,” says Ethan Zuckerman, a senior researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. “The reason social media is so interesting [for the press] is that the international media doesn’t have its members on the ground.”"

And I still think twitter is inane. This is actually a perfect case study of the unholy alliance between techno-hypers and the media beast which must be fed with punditry, no matter how vapid.

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