Clay Shirky: How social media can make history | Video on TED.com

Clay Shirky: How social media can make history | Video on TED.com


Hi Media Sociologists,

I think this is an excellent video about how the media is shifting. Shirky uses a similar model of understanding media to that of the circuit of culture.
What does this tell us about Media Sociology? Do you think that what he is saying is very different to how media works? What I find is that although his ideas take the circuit a step further, he still holds to a traditional idea that media has, till now, promoted a discourse or set of discourses which have been unquestioningly taken up by the general population/ audience. As we know from reception studies, people have been producers of meaning for a lot longer, although his point about the interaction within the audience community is probably the mitigating factor here. What do you think?

Media Sociology Blog

Hi people, found a new blog I would like to share which has a lot of great media insights, and wonderful photos:
The Kisseloff Collection

Also a link to a New Yorker article about tv which is just peachy. The writer is Jeff Kisseloff, and he has written a number of books about media/tv...

Including : The Box: an oral history of television

Which looks great, sort of a combination of audience studies and cultural memory. Available on Fernleihe...enjoy...