Cyberculture by Pierre Levy

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iDdl_FwGZE8C&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=cyberculture+evaluation&source=bl&ots=-KUMmZOjIH&sig=ygh4FANcYhIx4qzFGENWfBigTSE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CsiZT9mDKoi-8AOY2aW0Bg&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=cyberculture%20evaluation&f=false

Introducing cyberculture

Some information on Cyberculture that i found useful when composing my report.

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/introducing_cyberculture.html

Key Texts - Megan Hyslop

Virtual Culture - Edited by Steven G. Jones

This was one of my key texts. I read parts of this book to try and help me gain some insight into the subject area of cybercultures. 

Quote from this book I found interesting:

"Communication can be defined in several ways: it means passage from one place to another, and it means the transmitting of a message. In terms of the highway it means an unending flow of traffic - perhaps much of it essentially aimless, a kind of search for some place or person to help reinforce our identity; it also means the signs and billboards and lights and signals - a chorus of communication such as no generation has ever before seen." (p4)

An Introduction to Cybercultures - David Bell

This was another one of my key texts. I also read parts of this, I found this more useful. I have found quotes in this book that have helped me in trying to understand what cybercultures is.

I found a quote in this book which I felt was a definition of cyberculture/cyberspace:

" Cyberspace: A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by the world's computers and communications lines. A world in which the global traffic of knowledge, secrets, measurements, indicators, entertainments, and alter-human agency takes on form: sights, sounds, presences never seen on the surface of the earth blossoming in a vast electronic light." (Benedikt CR: 29)

Another quote from this book where David Bell himself tries to define cyberculture I found useful:

"Cyberspace is, I think, something to be understood as it is lived - while maps and stats give us one kind of insight into it, they are inadequate to the task of capturing the thoughts and feelings that come from, to take a mundane example, sending an email."(p2)

Another quote I likes and feel is true, especially in more contemporary internet sites:

"Words on screen are quite capable of...creating a community from a collection of strangers." (Howard Rheingold)

-I think this is interesting because this is effectively what happens when you meet anybody over the internet, or if you do online gaming. The people you meet are strangers, but you feel like you know them.

Carrying on the idea of community: 

"bunkering in is about something really simple: being sick of others and trying to shelter the beleaguered self in a techno-bubble... Digital reality is perfect. It provides the bunker self with immediate, universal access to global community without people: electronic communication without social contact, being digital without being human, going on-line without leaving the safety of the electronic bunker." (Kroker and Kroker CR: 96-7)

Social networking to network

continuing on from my previous post...

A YouTube video that breaks down exactly what to look at on your Facebook to network your business and design.

The web as a marketing tool

Link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/frontpage-help/using-your-web-site-as-a-marketing-tool-HA001123104.aspx

The Microsoft site gives you a breakdown into using the web as a marketing tool. I think that this revolves around identity as for example as a designer, you need to network yourself and get your identity out there to the world. The web allows this to happen quickly and cheaply. Social sites such as Facebook and Twitter are commonly used in todays world to advertise for free, allowing information to spread across the world rapidly. This goes back to previous identity articles on how much and how little information you choose to post online, as being selective can help how you are viewed.

Twitter, Blogs and Graphic Design

I have been researching the use of social networking in design to see how relevant it is in todays world. It is very relevant I have found as there as so many new ways to get your work seen that never existed years ago. I have included a few links.


Twitter for Graphic Design jobs

I was researching different social networking and wondered how they can relate the the area of graphic design, and I came across many graphic designers who you could follow if you have your own twitter. I also found that it is being used to promote graphic design businesses and jobs. Also it can be used to apply for placements etc.


There are many pages but one I found is http://twitter.com/#!/getgradesigjobs

This twitter page posts new jobs available daily and is kept up-to-date. This would save the hassle of looking everywhere for jobs. I think this is a great way to advertise jobs, but better still its a great way for graduates to find jobs.







List of Graphic Designers Twitter pages


I have found a list of most followed/top 20 designers that you can follow on twitter. I think this is a useful and easy way to keep up-to-date with new things going on in graphic design.

http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/graphic-designer-with-mass-following/

This is a list of Top Graphic Designers that are on twitter:
http://www.northorion.com/follow-top-graphic-designers-on-twitter-to-boost-your-career-0665/

Graphic Design blogs


I have had a blog saved in my bookmarks for quite some time that I look at. Its a blog by designer david Airey, I have found it useful because he shares his tips for students and his blog is big and there is lots to read that is very interesting.

http://www.davidairey.com/

20 Social Networking Facts

I was researching social networking and came across some interesting facts that I thought I would share with you.

20 Social Media Statistics

These figures reveal the huge black hole that our time disappears into when we visit Facebook, Twitter or YouTube or other social media sites.

1. One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook ( This number is calculated by dividing the planets 6.94 billion people by Facebook’s 750 million users)
2. People spend 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
3. Each Facebook user spends on average 15 hours and 33 minutes a month on the site
4. More than 250 million people access Facebook through their mobile devices
5. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook
6. 30 billion pieces of content is shared on Facebook each month
7. 300,000 users helped translate Facebook into 70 languages
8. People on Facebook install 20 million “Apps” every day
9. YouTube has 490 million unique users who visit every month (as of February 2011)
10. YouTube generates 92 billion page views per month (These YouTube stats don’t include videos viewed on phones and embedded in websites)
11. Users on YouTube spend a total of 2.9 billion hours per month (326,294 years)
12. Wikipedia hosts 17 million articles
13. Wikipedia authors total over 91,000 contributors
14. People upload 3,000 images to Flickr (the photo sharing social media site) every minute
15. Flickr hosts over 5 billion images
16. 190 million average  Tweets per day occur on Twitter (May 2011)
17. Twitter is handling 1.6 billion queries per day
18. Twitter is adding nearly 500,000 users a day
19. Google+ has more than 25 million users
20. Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days (Twitter took 780 days and Facebook 852 days)

link: http://www.howellpenny.com/2011/12/social-media-facts-and-figures/