Now and then students contact me while doing research on articles I’ve written on this blog or interviews published on my work. So this one started out very interesting although the eventual questions were not asking the right questions I believe. Student Request I’m studying journalism at Stellenbosch University, and have to write an in-depth…
Amidst the sudden ascent of LinkedIn, Twitter, Groupon, and of course, Facebook, it’s easy to forget that social media actually has a bit of a history going back more than 30 years. Really? Law firm Morrison & Foerster has put together just such a timeline graphic of online communities in its latest issue of Socially…
Over the years I’ve noticed a love-hate relationship with Facebook developing. On the one hand, it seems like a marketing dream. On the other hand it’s a parent’s worst nightmare. When you consider the amount of information Facebook can now access via a user’s cellphone it indeed becomes scary. Smartphones with their tight integration into social…
Imagine there’s no FacebookIt’s easy if you tryNo “Friends” or “Status”No pages you can “Like”Imagine all the peopleLiving yesterday… Imagine there’s no LinkedinIt isn’t hard to doNo “Add connections”No “People you may know”Imagine all the peopleLiving in the past… You may say, I’m a ludditeBut I’m not the only oneI hope someday you’ll join usAnd…
This interview was compiled for a weekly feature in the Daily Dispatch newspaper in East London: Online behaviour expert Ramon Thomas talks to the Dispatch about technology and how it affects you. Profiles will appear at www.dispatch.co.za Q: YOU describe yourself as being an online behaviour expert. What does that entail?A: My field of research is…