{"id":2362,"date":"2011-03-29T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2011-03-31T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:35:04","slug":"alice-marwick-on-celebrity-publicity-and-self-branding-in-web-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2011\/03\/29\/alice-marwick-on-celebrity-publicity-and-self-branding-in-web-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Marwick on Celebrity, Publicity and Self-Branding in Web 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid-2000s, journalists and businesspeople heralded \u201cWeb 2.0\u201d technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook as signs of a new participatory era that would democratize journalism, entertainment, and politics. But user status and popularity has become a primary use of social media, maintaining hierarchy rather than diminishing it. In this talk Alice Marwick \u2014 a postdoctoral researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England and a research affiliate at the Berkman Center \u2014 examines interactions between social media and social life in the San Francisco \u201ctech scene\u201d to show that Web 2.0 has become a key aspect of social hierarchy in technologically mediated communities.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2011-03-29_marwick\/2011-03-29_marwick.mov\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2011-03-29_marwick\/2011-03-29_marwick.mov.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click Above for Video<br \/>\n&#8230;or download the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2011-03-29_marwick\/2011-03-29_marwick640.ogv\">OGG video format!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid-2000s, journalists and businesspeople heralded \u201cWeb 2.0\u201d technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook as signs of a new participatory era that would democratize journalism, entertainment, and politics. But user status and popularity has become a primary use of social media, maintaining hierarchy rather than diminishing it. In this talk Alice Marwick \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[695,590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berkman-luncheon-series","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}