All Blog Posts Tagged 'cosgrove' (7)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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