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Whenever I get asked what my favorite book is, I always reply The Pirates Dilemma. The book tells the story of punk, disco, hip-hop, graffiti, and how modern technology has made the ideas and ...
One of the things that I do is a lot of teaching and a lot of training. I do this thing called a social media bootcamp where I get a bunch of people who are small businesses or from local ...
From posting Instagram photo dumps at the end of the semester to checking Sidechat while procrastinating for finals, social media is a fact of life for virtually everyone at Columbia. The virtual ...
We acknowledge that social media has more than its fair share of issues, but when it comes to sharing snippets of Linn County history, it is a wonderful resource and allows The History Center to ...
Most of that history I didn’t know. My introduction to the business history and culture of social media came through Ben Smith’s excellent 2023 book, Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the ...
The history of social media has been filled with many twists and turns, but Bluesky has presented a business model that stands out even in that timeline. Rather than tightly controlling user data ...
A history of social media from the perspective of the poster, Taylor Lorenz’s Extremely Online examines the roots and rise of our sponsorship-saturated ecosystem.