The presentation accompanying my honors thesis defense. June 2009.

1. Our Shared Humanity
and the Technological Muse:
A 140-Character Culture
a thesis
by
Laura M. Webster

2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/yanbing/781788511/

3. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs.png

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethanhein/2756672713/

5. user
community

6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/complexify/97303317/

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/93136022/t

8. Web 1.0 Web 2.0
DoubleClick Google AdSense
Ofoto Flickr
Akamai BitTorrent
mp3.com Napster
Britannica Online Wikipedia
personal websites blogging
evite upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation search engine optimization
page views cost per click
screen scraping web services
publishing participation
content management systems wikis
directories (taxonomy) tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness syndication
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

9. http://startupblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/social-networking-logos3.jpg

10. http://www.twitter.com

11. http://blogs.starbucks.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.21.60/coffee

12. http://www.twitter.com/starbucks

14. http://www.twitter.com/southwestair

15. http://www.twitter.com/comcastcares

16. http://www.twitter.com/zappos

17. http://www.twitter.com/richardatdell

18. so where do ad agencies fit in?

19. “The future is not Google-able.”
–William Gibson

20. “Technologies reshape the very ends
we use them to reach.”
–Peter-Paul Verbeek

21. Human interaction is the simplicity needed in our
increasingly technologically complex world.

22. Questions?