Social media winners and losers at the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony

Jul28

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.

James Bond escorts HRM Queen Elizabeth II from her helicopter

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.

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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).

London 2012 Olympic Memes

Jul17

The Conversation published my article on London 2012 Olympic memes, written with the help of Andrew Harvey.

Source: Facebook.com/TheOlympicMemes

London 2012 is already seeing fierce competition for meme supremacy.

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Rintel, S. & Harvey, A. (2012, July 17). Meme team: Olympic fandom meets the internet. The Conversation (Online).

Related articles:

Rintel, S. (2011, August 15). Obama? Norway killings? London riots? You can has a meme for that… The Conversation (Online).

The Airtime video chat gamble

Jun18

The Conversation published my article on the problems of Airtime, the new Facebook video chat service.

Source: Airtime

I argue that Airtime offers little that is new, it’s not on board the group video chat zeitgeist, and it has significant privacy issues.

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Rintel, S. (2012, June 18). Airtime’s Facebook video service gambles on the kindness of strangers. The Conversation (Online).

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Rintel, S. (2012, June 21). Facebook’s funniest home video service. Technology Spectator (Online).

Related:

Rintel, S. (2011, July 12). Face to Facebook: can video chat get over its hangups?The Conversation (Online).
Rintel, E.S. 2010. Conversational management of network trouble perturbations in personal videoconferencing. In Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 304-311. DOI: 10.1145/1952222.1952288
Rintel, S. 2007. Maximizing environmental validity: remote recording of desktop videoconferencing. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction design and usability (HCI’07), Julie A. Jacko (Ed.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 911-920. DOI: 10.1145/1952222.1952288

Would you ask your Facebook friends to track down a stolen car?

Jun12

I commented in the The Townsville Bulletin about a Townsville woman turning to Facebook in an attempt to track down her stolen four-wheel drive.

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Excerpt: University of Queensland social media expert and strategic communications lecturer, Dr Sean Rintel, said social media posts travelled further in tight-knit communities.

“If you have a couple of hundred friends, then the reach from your friends and their friends is about 60,000,” he said.

“If your post is then posted by several of your friends, it just keeps rippling.”

Dr Rintel said personal stories and pleas for help were more likely to go viral than messages from authority figures and that more people were likely to give social networking a go to track down their own stolen vehicles.

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