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A decade in social media
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RMIT University academic John Lenarcic nominates some of the key trends in
social media over the past decade:
Social networking (Facebook, MySpace and Twitter)
Friendship became virtual and ever so complicated in its management.
File sharing
The beginning of the decade saw the demise of Napster but illegal file sharing went
from strength to strength via other means.
The iPod and iTunes
A
revolution in how we listen to music and how we buy it. We may look back on the
Noughties as the beginning of the end of the album.
The iPhone fetish
A
phone and computer melded into one stylish gadget. The stuff of science fiction,
available today.
The Singularity
Computer scientist Ray Kurzweil concocts the notion that in less than 30 years we
will all be able to upload our selves into immortality via the Singularity.
Mr Lenarcic researches on social and ethical aspects of the internet, computers,
online networking sites and new technologies.
A lecturer in the School of Business and Information Technology, he is available for
interview.
For interviews: RMIT University’s John Lenarcic, (03) 9925 1605 or 0410 131
580.
For general media enquiries: RMIT University Communications, Gosia
Kaszubska, (03) 9925 3176 or 0417 510 735.
15 December, 2009
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