Reading Marwick's Status Update

By Barbara Fister. I’ve just finished reading Alice Marwick’s book, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age, and it has left me thinking about many things, including academic labor and the way we live now. Marwick studied the culture of those who have worked in Silicon Valley over a period of years and finds certain cultural traits have embedded themselves in the social media platforms we use every day. Read more...