Some very nicely produced clips of my speech at the Scottish Media 140 conference has just been put up on Vimeo - see the Pat Kane tag to watch all five (including a very nice testimonial from the audience).
I'll pick out three here. Movie 1 picks out my points about the next wave of social networking seeing competitive advantage in more self-conscious privacy considerations.Back-up links to speech below. (BTW "extimacy" is originally a concept by the political philosopher Slavoj Zizek (via Lacan), which has recently been applied to social networking behaviour).
Pat Kane - movie 1 - intimacy v extimacy from media140 on Vimeo.
Movie 2 re-examines Tom Peters' 90's concept of 'The Brand Called Me' in light of the public display of character that social media provides.
Pat Kane - movie 3 - Establishing the brand called 'Me' from media140 on Vimeo.
And movie 4 continues that theme, connecting the Roman definition of fame to our presentation of self in social media.
Pat Kane - movie 4 - Fame - The Public Display of Character from media140 on Vimeo.
[Thanks to Gary Bonar for pics]. The above clips are from an excellent evening at the first Scottish Media140 conference in Glasgow, where I did the opening keynote (I did the opening keynote at the first one in London, so there's a nice symmetry there). A great turnout of about 120 in the CCA, and some stimulating fellow speakers - Trey Pennington from Georgia publicly asked me to sign his copy of the Play Ethic (we share an interest in play and epistemology, which will be interesting to explore); and Steve Berry from Channel Four was also funny, practical and theoretical all at the same time.
Here's the links and sources from the "mirrored halls of social media commentary" that jazzed up my speech. Happy to be a conduit:
Paul Seaman: Briefing for PRs on Enterprise 2.0's Brave New World. A new voice to me, and usefully sceptical about social media utopianism. Comments are also pertinent.
New 'privacy-conscious' social networking rivals to Twitter and Facebook (BBC Online)
Andrew Macafee's Blog on the Business Impact of IT: Drop the Pilot. Another new voice to me, writing with great lucidity about the way that social media can bring the joys of serendipity right into the heart of an organisation/enterprise.
Hue And Cry Music Club on Ning. Launched in late 2008, it's been a fascinating experiment in relating all the energies and social creativity of online community to our "heritage" pop legacy as Hue And Cry.
Stuart Maclennan sacked - a Twitter casualty... and Tom Watson reelected - a Twitter success in the last election.
My social media t-shirt slogans:
Do what you do best and link to the rest (Jeff Jarvis)
Use what is ubiquitous to drive people to what is scarce (me)
We regard what is truly scarce as plentiful (natural resources), and what is truly plentiful as scarce (information and culture) - Michel Bauwens
And the Scottish overtone to social media, in this consensus-seeking, socially-concerned country? That when Channel Four does poverty porn, it makes a shitload of cash out of the adverts and web 2.0 interactions (Big Brother, Wife Swap). When Scotland does poverty porn (with BBC's The Scheme), it causes such an outrage that it gets taken off after two episodes and invites a media firestorm (partly caused by yours truly...)
Ok, happy to hear from anyone at the conference, please mail here.
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