“France’s audiovisual authority says that TV and radio stations that promote their sites on the two gargantuan social media services on air are actually engaging in secret — and unfair — advertising. Some French bloggers, bemoaning that their country seems out of touch with the Digital Age, pilloried what it considered an antiquated stance.”
“Indian studios had refused to provide financial backing” to the director Onir for his film I Am “due to the movie’s controversial subject matter. Not to be put off, the film-maker took to Facebook and pulled in donations from as far afield as the US and Australia.”
“Facebook’s challenge to Netflix, the dominant player in digital film distribution, has been turned up a notch with Warner Bros’s announcement that five more films will be added to its stream-for-hire service on the social networking site.”
“You cannot negotiate a labor agreement on the social media. It doesn’t work. It’s just a poor execution and a poor use of social media as a tool.”
Malcolm Gladwell argues that the weak personal ties one develops online aren’t sufficient to motivate people to fight hard for a cause (as did the strong interpersonal ties within Martin Luther King’s movement). Jonah Lehrer counters that the Web enables weaker ties to form among larger groups – making it easier to mobilize a critical … Continue reading “Maybe ‘Facebook Activism’ Really Can Be a Powerful Tool”
“One predominant fictional argot of Facebook for teenagers would be breathlessness or emphatic speech. Their pages are peppered with “Okkkkayyyyy” and” HAHAHAHA. ” and “OMG!!!!!” You can find polite little girls cursing like sailors on Facebook. Everything is louder, more ardent, capitalized.”
“The application, called Disney Tickets Together, could transform how Hollywood sells movie tickets by combining purchases with the powerful forces of social networking. When you buy a ticket through Disney’s application, for instance, it alerts your Facebook friends and prompts you to invite them to buy tickets of their own.”
“[T]he performers [of Canada’s] Les 7 Doigts de la Main don’t just dazzle by flying between poles; they offer up snippets of personal information as they irritate, bond and flirt with each other. They are so human, it feels all the more astonishing when they hurl themselves off poles. … [The Australian troupe] Circa’s show, meanwhile, … Continue reading “‘Circus For The Facebook Generation’”
With dozens of animators pitching in through a specially built Facebook application, the slick clip from the crowdsourcing specialists at Mass Animation is a rare “art by committee” success story.
“What if Tony and Maria had met on Facebook? If Anita Twittered, would she feel tweety? Those are some of the questions posed by “Web Site Story,” a video parody of “West Side Story” that’s making the virtual rounds.”
