The Conversation published my article on the social media winners and losers at the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, written with the help of SJC Journalism students Kate Noon, Rodney Hudson, John O’Hare, and Nancy Upadhya.
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I argued that if you only watched one screen, you missed a significant dimension of responses from a global audience, and that dimension was at least as interesting.
Read the full article:
Rintel, S., Noon, K., Hudson, R., O’Hare, J., & Upadhya, N. (2012, July 28). Social media winners and losers in the Olympics opening ceremony. The Conversation (Online).
Related articles:
- Rintel, S. (2012, July 28) Olympics Opening Ceremony in Social Media. Storify.
- Rintel, S. (2012, July 17). Meme team: Olympic fandom meets the internet. The Conversation (Online).
- Rintel, S. (2011, August 15). Obama? Norway killings? London riots? You can has a meme for that… The Conversation (Online).
