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All Blog Posts Tagged 'cosgrove' (7)

Arvind Salwan Digital Inspiration - bring it on

Scotland’s first strategy for the digital media industry has been published today (14 December) and calls for a range of ambitious and radical measures to help the industry gain a competitive edge to compete at a global level. New Media Corp certainly welcomes this but here's a broad overview and some early reaction: Digital Inspiration argues that despite its track record in scientific, medical and industrial innovation, the… Continue

Added by Arvind Salwan on December 14, 2009 at 2:06pm — 4 Comments

Stuart Cosgrove Superheroes Wanted

My fad obsession for Summer 2009 is the rise of Suburban Superheroes. This is a truly strange phenomenon - they are citizens who dress up in superhero costumes and 'solve' crimes in their community. Think of it as a cross between fancy-dress and nighbourhood watch. Like most… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on May 5, 2009 at 2:00pm — 4 Comments

Stuart Cosgrove Micro-Blogging - Faster Tweetie-Pie Kill Kill

In previous blogs on the sociology of fads I have sardonically focussed on the micro-blogging technology Twitter to demonstrate the claim/blame matrix, where new popular phenomenon ar… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on April 16, 2009 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

Stuart Cosgrove Interactive Fallopian Tubes

For those of you with a passing interest in sexual intimacy, you… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on March 28, 2009 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Stuart Cosgrove What Will We Collect?

Analogue media has thrown up endless amounts of physcial objects that have taken on a collectable value but what will we collect from the digital media era? Last week I wrote a piece in the Sunday Times about the rarest soul record in the world… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on February 24, 2009 at 11:34am — 11 Comments

Stuart Cosgrove The Frenzy of Fads - 3

In The Frenzy of Fads 1 I listed seven dynamics in the popular euphoria of fads and argued that prevalent forms of social media were fads, and corresponded to the following typologies: • Fads… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on February 24, 2009 at 11:23am — 3 Comments

Stuart Cosgrove The Frenzy of Fads - Part 1

One of my favorite subjects is the euphoria of fads. As an academic, broadcaster and writer for the NME, The Face etc I have always written about those fascinating particles of pop culture that flare up and then recede. (Anyone interested in a longer study of a fad might like… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on January 31, 2009 at 7:00pm — 5 Comments

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