Posts Tagged: social media

R Kelly Fails at Twitter

Perhaps motivated by JPMorgan’s failed attempt at social media, R. Kelly decided the launch of his new album Black Panties deserved the same unfortunate publicity. One of the most recent trends on Twitter is big name companies and artists running their own Q&A’s, not unlike Reddit’s very popular ‘Ask Me Anything’ format. Twitter has a tendency to… Read more »

JG Ballard’s Eerily Accurate Prediction of Social Media in ‘77

Social media and this whole idea of making a spectacle out of the mundane is not new, it was actually an idea being tossed around in 1977 by sci-fi author JG Ballard. You probably know him as the guy that wrote books such as Crash (later adapted into a film with the help of David Cronenberg), The Atrocity Exhibition, and Empire of the Sun.