Thursday, 8 September 2011

TWITTER

Last year you set up a Twitter page and you will continue to use it this year. What for?
  • To communicate instantly and effectively with the rest of your group and your class. You will share your thinking as well as attach information / hyperlinks / pictures that relate to your work.
  • To receive new information quickly. It's an amazing human search engine that harnesses the crowd. You'll follow all sorts of movers and shakers. use the hashtag to follow specific threads.
  • To start a conversation with strangers as well as friends. Fresh ideas when you're thinking about something.
  • To create a community of people interested in what you are interested in: invite responses; follow up ideas.
  • To learn from some great minds and experienced teachers in various Media fields. If something interets them, it may well be of interest to us. 'Follow' wisely.
  • To invite feedback: your third Evaluation question. You may get a completely fresh, honest opinion. That's worth having. Potentially, you have access to millions of people.
  • To track the band that you have chosen for your promo pack.
See why the journalist Alan Rusbridger values Twitter in The Guardian newspaper here.


Movies and Social Media: Marketing films with new media Why filmmakers use social media: article by Caitlin Neely 03.06.15


Pete Fraser writes:
So who is worth following for A level Media?

@julianmcdougall wrote the OCR textbook and he tends to use his tweets to send out useful links for the A2 exam in particular

@henryjenkins is the American academic who wrote 'Convergence Culture' and has done a lot of research on fans

@ainnucci Armando Iannucci the creator of 'The Thick of It' and Alan Partridge, amongst much more, is always amusing and interesting


@petesmediablog is me- I don't say much but you might find other people I follow quite interesting!


Get yourself on there, add a few people then have a hunt around for comedians, actors, film-makers, politicians, journalists you find interesting. It could open you up to a whole load of interesting stuff!  

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