Comments on: #SCMS15: The Conference as Media Event http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/03/30/scms15-the-conference-as-media-event/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Sudeep Sharma http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/03/30/scms15-the-conference-as-media-event/comment-page-1/#comment-441235 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:13:51 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=25933#comment-441235 Really interesting piece, especially about considering SCMS as open-access publishing. I think that works as a description but it also is vastly different from how these conferences operated in the past. Not that change itself is bad but I have heard from more than one person that hate live tweeting their presentations because it essentially takes their ideas/concepts meant for a specific audience and turns them into overly simplified, often decontextualized blurbs for free. I think the “generation gap” is not just older members getting used to technology, but also younger scholars more nervous about the profile and having their best work presented at conferences like SCMS not only reduced to a few tweets, but then judged for NOT generating social media engagement and therefore not being noteworthy. Things to think about, thanks for the article!

]]> By: Cynthia Meyers http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/03/30/scms15-the-conference-as-media-event/comment-page-1/#comment-441219 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 20:38:49 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=25933#comment-441219 Great points! Another feature of Twitter I like is that I can look up the tweets later (and interact)–a little asynchronicity is a nice thing!

The “generation gap” in SCMS Twitter usage may eventually close, but the problem of “context collapse” may continue. Because I have followers from both academe and the media industries, there are occasions when what makes sense among a scholarly audience may be understood differently by an industry audience. Live tweeting means I may need to make that industry audience more “visible” to my academic audience more often! Or just glory in the messy clash of different worlds! 😉

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