[Air-L] facebook, twitter and annoyances

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

It's interesting also to see all the nonsense about Stephen Fry's twittering habits that is consuming the UK news ... he left in a huff over a comment that his tweets were boring ... but is back (for those concerned!). 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/01/stephen-fry-twitter-quit-threat

And, re food tweeting

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/nicholas-lezard-so-youre-eating-lunch-fascinating-1813206.html

Note that I get my twitter news from traditional media -- Maybe newspapers have found a new niche!

/Caroline

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:40:11 +0800
>From: Giorgos Cheliotis <gcheliotis.lists at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Air-L] facebook, twitter and annoyances  
>To: danah boyd <aoir.z3z at danah.org>
>Cc: aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>
>
>I also find the discussion very interesting and would hope that  
>someone will look into this as a research topic. There is something  
>almost intimate, though at the same time casual, about food updates.  
>Sharing a bit of someone's daily life can help create a sense of  
>connectedness, assuming you care for the person as such to begin with.  
>If you're following someone simply as an information source, you might  
>not care at all. So, in a completely fictional example:
>
>Who would be interested in hearing what the Huffington Post recommends  
>for breakfast? Assuming those who visit the website do so in search of  
>information that is broadly deemed  news-worthy, no one would. Readers  
>and fans of Arianna Huffington may on the other hand like to hear what  
>she had for breakfast and thus remotely partake in the daily ritual  
>that one would typically only share with partners and friends.
>
>I guess this would be a typical case for a uses and gratifications  
>approach, though food culture in particular would also be interesting  
>to focus on.
>
>On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:15 AM, danah boyd wrote:
>
>> When it comes to food status updates, I also think that the value  
>> goes beyond the food itself.  Food is part of ritualized culture and  
>> sharing is common with food itself.  All around the world, people  
>> sit down for a meal with people in their lives.  There is no food in  
>> online interactions.  There is no alcohol either.  All we have are  
>> performances of food (and alcohol).  It's not the same, but there's  
>> still some endearing about it, a feeling of peripheral awareness, a  
>> feeling of togetherness when apart, a feeling of commonality and  
>> patterns and daily flows.  My mother used to post about what she ate  
>> and I loved it; it let me feel her presence in a way that's not  
>> possible from far away. I loved seeing the habits of her life, not  
>> because they are important to strangers, but because they are  
>> important to me.
>>
>> I'm sure there are folks on this list who are more versed in food  
>> culture than I am, but I just want to say that I appreciate those in  
>> my intimate sphere talking about their food.  There's something  
>> comforting about the simplicity of it.
>>
>> danah
>>
>>
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
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