reading list
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, books, web 2.0
Recently, we have seen an onslaught of books about social media and its impact on society and (somewhat more importantly) business. Some of these accounts are more academic, some are more pop. My idea is to give you a sketch on those, which I read for my thesis. The working title is “Economic Value of [...]
Tags: free labor, MA thesis, produsage, web 2.0, wikinomics we-think clay shirky geert lovink blogging
CoMundus blogs
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, blogging, web 2.0
CoMundus is a consortium of European universities on which you can pursue an MA program entitled Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. If you are “third country” national (yeah sounds a lot like “third world” country, in short non-EU, non-EU candidate) and lucky, you can get an Erazmus Mundus scholarship, which would make your life a [...]
revisiting the issue
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under politics
Of Kosovo. I promise not to turn the blog into a crusade for Serbian cause. The frequency of posts on this topic is purely coincidental.
From a slightly different perspective – a post bellow is my emotional reaction to something I perceive as injustice, this post is about a talk entitled Kosovo’s Independence and the Balkans: [...]
Tags: kosovo, lse, politics, serbia, tim judah
the end of (facebook) innocence
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, web 2.0
Facebook really took off when its creators opened it to users outside university/school networks, which was also marked with the proliferation of applications. People use Facebook to kill time, but majority use it to see what their friends are up to, to stay in touch with people, who moved away, went to school or are [...]
Tags: Facebook, free labor, lovink, user-generated content, web 2.0
what’s next for music
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, music, popcult, web 2.0
Faced with the widespread torrent or p2p network downloads, record companies are teaming up with social networks trying to monetize on the increasing online participation.
MySpace Music being the last foray in this area.
As a social network, MySpace has been associated with teenagers and unsigned musicians, who hoped to be spotted and propelled into stardom (there [...]
Tags: Facebook, Last.fm, MA thesis, MOG, music, MySpace, online music services, social networking
disgrace
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under politics
Let’s face it – no one reads Vanity Fair for its journalistic objectivity, deadpan criticism of political hypocrisy or clear ideological views. Glossy photos, sensationalist, yet captivating writing style and unparallel access to the powerful and rich attract us to indulge in this magazine. Vanity Fair is after a story, not morals. In each issue [...]
Tags: angry rant, kosovo, serbia, vanity fair
remnants of the black wave
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under films, popcult
Many people whom I meet this year were aware that I come from a post-Communist country, but were surprised to find out that the country in which I was born (with which most are familiar, not the results of the post-war division) had a socialistic organization of society, but was never a part of an [...]
Tags: films, london, yugoslav black wave cinema
you know you’re old when …
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under popcult
Whoever loves pop culture is teenager forever. You agree?
In this love, the proclivity towards artifacts dealing with this part of life takes a special place. Both those considered supercool (Juno, Breakfast Club, My So-Called Life) and those less publicaly approved, yet accepted in the form of guilty pleasure (Dawson’s Creek, Gossip Girl, [...]
Tags: high school, pop culture, teen culture
issue of race/issue of trust
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under politics
Big day. For Americans. Some would like us to believe for the rest of the world, as well.
In my life there have been quite a few US elections (first I remember are Bush Sr. – Doukakis, I believe in 88), but these ones have been pronounced to be monumental and historic from the very start. [...]
Tags: obama, us elections
castells@LSE
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic
Manuel Castells is the most cited social scientist in the world. And in person, he is a charming, funny old man. Aside from a pre-promotion, he is doing for his upcoming book (which will deal with issues of Internet and power, yet to be released) Castells’s goal in his lecture at London School of Economics [...]
