Frances Bell’s Blog

 Nicholas Carr identifies Baudrillard as a prophet of ‘twitterification’.  He says “Those that know the technology cannot see beyond it, and those that don’t know the technology cannot see into it. Both end up trafficking in absurdity. ” and goes on to quote Baudrillard’s eerily prophetic words from 1999 (collected in the book The Vital [...]

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Nielsen have published a report called Global Faces and Networked Places - A Nielsen report on Social Networking’s New Global Footprint

Report Highlights are:
1. Putting the growth of social networks – popularity and engagement – into context
2. How the audience to social networks is changing
3. The challenges facing advertisers on social networks
4. What advertisers can do [...]

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