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Comment on Social Media is Not Lessening Attention-Spans! by The OPLIN 4cast » Blog Archive » OPLIN 4Cast #247: May we have your attention

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:28:53 +0000

[...] Social media is not lessening attention-spans! (Social Media Philosophy Project/thePuck) “Studies, articles, and tweets pop up all over, every day it seems, about how people of my generation, spoiled on TV, computers, and video games, have no attention-span, can’t focus, and have fragmented work ethics. This is not the case. We spend hours focused on the minutiae of our Twitter accounts, the apps on our phones, our contact lists. We spend months and years playing the same online video game, engaged in long-term goals that often take months to accomplish. We’re focused, we get the information, we know what we want to know…we just aren’t doing it like they want us to.” [...]

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Comment on Social Media is Not Lessening Attention-Spans! by thePuck

thePuck — Tue, 31 May 2011 03:46:11 +0000

tl;dr

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methods — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:31:02 +0000

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Comment on Social Media Socialism by Michael Mallek

Michael Mallek — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:27:34 +0000

As a Philosophy&Economics student I have examined this philosophy. I see Social Media as a combination of Open Source and User Generated Content and asked myself WHY people do something with appararently no return (at least no direct exchange).
I compared Social Media philosophy with Marx theoretical communism (not to be confused with communism realized in the Soviet Union – in Marx theory the exchange of goods and labor was not controlled or administrated by any central instance but solely by the people – just like in Social Media).
Then I came to the concept of social capital according to Nan Lin. Social Capital is a direct return on apparently “selfless” deeds in Social Media.
And last but not least I describe how social capital eventually leads to ROI (return on investment in a commercial perspective).

See link: http://socialmediasuperhero.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/karl-marx-dream-comes-true-everybody-is-talking-about-social/