Apr 27
ROFLCon: Keynote on Culture
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via Wired…

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Can the internet and its celebrities change the status quo? Of course they can, but do they?

Those were the questions posed by Alice Marwick, Saturday’s keynote speaker at ROFLCon, a two-day internet culture conference. Marwick, a Ph.D. candidate at New York University who studies social status and hierarchy in Web 2.0 cultures, thinks it’s time for the internet community to use its power for good.

The HappySlips of the internet most certainly do. Christine’s recent trip to the Philippines exposed the internet community to a side of the Philippine way of life that they might not otherwise see.

Kudos to Christine.