http://iamusergenerated.com Thoughts on Storytelling in a Socially Networked Culture Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:15:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en def.  Combining media memes together to form a new memetic piece of media This is an experimental work where I combine three versions of the song Heartbeats by Jose Gonzales with the advertising meme of the bouncing Sony balls intercut with characters from Halo 3 repeating the same movements. Will we ever ... http://iamusergenerated.com/2008/10/24/memetic-mash-media/ I have the utmost respect for what Banksy has been able to do with legitimizing graffiti as a valid form of contemporary art, however he may have met his match or perhaps his greatest collaborator in Grey Ghost. In Murketing today Rob Walker published a post about the anti-graf zealot Fred ... http://iamusergenerated.com/2008/08/28/graffiti-mash-up/ This EA video is a great example of a mass-media company responding to a User-Generated piece of content in a really smart way. Instead of sweeping this video game glitch under the table they opted to created a whole spot around it.  Well done EA and well done Tiger Woods, ... http://iamusergenerated.com/2008/08/21/consumerproducer-collaboration/ For another iteration of my Master's thesis I've been developing a new concept of what I call: Mash Media Storytelling. def: Mash Media Storytelling - using appropriated media to tell a story through mass media channels. This notion is largely inspired by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid and ... http://iamusergenerated.com/2008/08/18/mash-media-storytelling/ As I Am User Generated regular reader's will know, I'm keenly interested in one's own ability to create their own celebrity online.  Now there is a tool for gauging our celebrity, or at least our own obsession with our own celebrity. Vanity Validator is a tool that Chris Anderson developed which ... http://iamusergenerated.com/2008/08/18/vanity-validator/ The Aesthetic Poetic and myself have been talking a lot about how the larger Internet community perceive us and the content we produce. Wordle is a great visualization tool that helps in this quest as in scraps URLs for keywords then visualizes them. This word cloud can be seen as a ... http://iamusergenerated.com/2008/08/15/online-self-identity/ This is a presentation to the Library of Congress delivered by Kansas State professor Dr. Michael Wesch. It's close to an hour long with intelligent analysis on: media, culture, community, privacy, and identity, as they relate to anthropology. Grab a notebook, let the video pre-load and turn off all interruptions. This ... http://iamusergenerated.com/2008/08/04/youtube-and-self-expression-an-anthropological-study-by-michael-wesch/ In an earlier post I lamented the fact that within the computer and net space that things are meant to work properly. We don't like it when our computer doesn't work as expected or that a link is broken, however it is these flaws that make art so interesting. ... http://iamusergenerated.com/2008/02/05/ben-okri-and-the-imperfections-of-storytelling/ Today concludes my ten part series on my exploration into Walter Ong's classifications of orality and how I see them relating to an emerging social media language. The posts can be read as individual posts or as a series starting on November 1st. For now I've also put them all ... http://iamusergenerated.com/2008/01/11/ten-part-series-defining-a-social-media-language-through-orality/ As Walter J. Ong tells us in his book Orality and Literacy,"oral societies live very much in the present which keeps itself in equilibrium or homeostasis by sloughing off memories which no longer have present relevance.” This is as true now as it was in an oral tradition. The format ... http://iamusergenerated.com/2008/01/02/homeostatic-today-is-today-yesterday-is-a-refresh-away/