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10 Feb 2013 : My paper titled "Audience Measurement and Media Fragmentation: Revisiting the Monopoly Question" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Media Economics. You can read a pre-print version here here
6 June 2012 : My Paper Titled "Measuring Media Use Across Platforms: Evolving Audience Information Systems" is now published in International Journal on Media Management
20 March 2012: My Paper Titled "Media Consumption Across Platforms: Identifying User Defined Repertoires" is online as an early publication on the New Media and Society site
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Quick Updates on the NASA Diwali Image Phenomenon : Socially Constructed Thruths and the Persistence of Popularity
October 26th ( 2:40 Pm Chicago Time Less than 48 hrs on) ;66, 248 Shares ( three times over 22,000 before) October 25th ( 14 hrs on) Remember in my original post I had speculated that as India would wake … Continue reading
Posted in Audience Behaviour/ Measurement, Media Technology and Society, Social Media
Tagged shortform content, 140 char economy, Ignorance, Social Media, India, User generated content, Wisdom of Crowds, nasa diwali night india, nasa diwali map, nasa diwali india, online credibility, satellite images of india
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Social Media and The Problem with ‘Socially Constructed Truths’ : Why all Believed that the NASA Picture Was Clicked on Diwali
India and her diaspora worldwide was excited about Divali, (the festival of lights), and for good reason. A day before Divali, October 25 2011 3:30 pm CT, I noticed that a map had become a ‘Facebook hit’. In less than … Continue reading
Posted in Audience Behaviour/ Measurement, Media Technology and Society, Social Media
Tagged 140 char economy, Ignorance, India, nasa diwali india, nasa diwali map, nasa diwali night india, online credibility, satellite images of india, shortform content, Social Media, User generated content, Wisdom of Crowds
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Hail the web and the blogosphere: Finally my blog has had ‘real impact’
I have been updating this blog somewhat regularly now. I have often wondered whether I write this weblog for a particular audience . Perhaps the diverse nature of posts (yes I go all over) suggests that I don’t. So why … Continue reading
Posted in Audience Behaviour/ Measurement, Media Technology and Society, Memoirs from Chicagoland, Personal Accounts, Random Ruminations, Social Media
Tagged blogging, graduate student life, Mikhail Safronov, northwestern university, Roommates, Russian, shortform content, User generated content
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Has user generated content killed old ‘media logic’ ?
Recently, at a graduate students’ party somewhere in Midwestern United States, two short and sweet videos got very spontaneously produced. What intrigues me is that all it took was a gathering of a cross cultural group, some high “spirits” and … Continue reading
Posted in Media Technology and Society, Memoirs from Chicagoland, Social Media
Tagged communicating across cultures, Funniest ever Group Dance, graduate student life, hyperlinked society, MICA, old media logic, PhD comics, profitability of social media, Roommates, shortform content, Social Media, User generated content
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Tweets as Text Messages: Unresolved questions for low internet penetration markets
I am sorry if the title of this post reads like a research paper, (yes you got it) I will blame it on pressures of Grad school. Anyhow: There has been a lot of chatter that the power of twitter … Continue reading
