Alice E. Marwick is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University and the director of the McGannon Center for Communication Research. She is the author of Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age (2013).
Alice E. Marwick
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Writing on Public Books
Open Markets, Open Projects: Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
A decade ago, the precursors of today’s social media were known as “Web 2.0,” and came complete with a barrage of ideological presuppositions. According to rhetoric pioneered at O’Reilly conferences and echoed in Wired and on BlogSpot, the “1.0” web, cluttered with proprietary plugins and e-commerce failures, would be abandoned in favor of an Internet […]
