Jess WojenskiModernity in Post-ModernityThis week’s focus on digital politics and digital economies really emphasized the fact that we are hurling forward in a very different…Dec 7, 2014Dec 7, 2014
Jess WojenskiThe Appeal Of Internet FameIn SEO & The Disappearing Self, Rob Horning conceptualizes that when we engage with social media, we are forced to self-objectify, brand…Nov 26, 2014Nov 26, 2014
Jess WojenskiSocial Media & Identifying As ConsumableIt seems everything always comes back to capitalism. You can take seemingly unrelated concepts such as online digital communities and there…Nov 16, 2014Nov 16, 2014
Jess WojenskiAnother Argument Against Modernity’s DualismsThe debate about online and offline is an understandably great source of contention in a time where the lasting effects of our digital…Nov 15, 2014Nov 15, 2014
Jess WojenskiBecoming “Alive Enough”In Alone Together, Sherry Turkle analyzes her extensive research into sociable technology and its effect on us, as people and as a society…Oct 30, 2014Oct 30, 2014
Jess WojenskiPolitical Internet Memes: More Than JokesInternet memes are generally regarded as purely for entertainment purposes — funny, irreverent, relatable, snarky, or ridiculous aspects of…Oct 27, 2014Oct 27, 2014
Jess WojenskiHow Fandoms are Reclaiming the Production of CultureIn his article Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars? Grassroots Creativity Meets the Media Industry, Henry Jenkins likened nineteenth century folk…Oct 20, 2014Oct 20, 2014
Jess WojenskiAppealing to Some, Not All: The Long TailChris Anderson’s term The Long Tail seeks to describe the economic model antithetic to our former concepts of supply and demand, made…Oct 20, 2014Oct 20, 2014
Jess WojenskiPublic Participation v. Conglomerate ControlThe landscape of mass media has changed dramatically. No longer is media a “top-down, one-to many relationship between mass media and…Oct 19, 2014Oct 19, 2014
Jess WojenskiIt’s Not The Internet That’s Making Us StupidTheorizing and attempting to assess the affects the internet will have on us — individually, socially, globally, etc. — is important but…Oct 3, 2014Oct 3, 2014