Comments on: Stephen Harper, Julia Nunes and Social Software http://davecormier.com/edblog/2009/01/31/stephen-harper-julia-nunes-and-social-software/ Education, post-structuralism and the rise of the machines Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:18:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://davecormier.com/edblog/2009/01/31/stephen-harper-julia-nunes-and-social-software/comment-page-1/#comment-175454 admin Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:53:45 +0000 http://davecormier.com/edblog/?p=197#comment-175454 @SimWebb ur hilarious. yes, that's called a T-Y-P-O and, I believe, ur comment is normally referred to as 'ANNOYING'. @SimWebb
ur hilarious. yes, that’s called a T-Y-P-O and, I believe, ur comment is normally referred to as ‘ANNOYING’.

]]> By: SimWebb http://davecormier.com/edblog/2009/01/31/stephen-harper-julia-nunes-and-social-software/comment-page-1/#comment-175453 SimWebb Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:41:25 +0000 http://davecormier.com/edblog/?p=197#comment-175453 Yeah, Nunes is great- she has such a lovely voice. And that word in paragraph 6 is mystified. With a Y. Yeah, Nunes is great- she has such a lovely voice.
And that word in paragraph 6 is mystified. With a Y.

]]> By: Bon http://davecormier.com/edblog/2009/01/31/stephen-harper-julia-nunes-and-social-software/comment-page-1/#comment-171283 Bon Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:38:41 +0000 http://davecormier.com/edblog/?p=197#comment-171283 the intimacy thing is interesting. i bet people using social software expect, maybe without being aware of it, that they'll be getting something "deeper" than the polished public surface of a known figure...so Harper's coiffed and managed and closed kinda schtick would definitely be a deterrent. at least to a demographic not inclined to be his trusting fans. and i don't know how popular he is with the slice of the population keen on social software...but i suspect that's too simplistic a division. what i wonder is whether "cool" factor matters too...that you can be detached or managed if what you're projecting has cultural capital to your audience. Harper's clearly done a good job getting out there on flickr and twitter...so is it that the people who voted for him aren't out there themselves, that they just don't care enough about him to watch his stuff, or that they don't think anything interesting will reveal itself in that stuff? the intimacy thing is interesting. i bet people using social software expect, maybe without being aware of it, that they’ll be getting something “deeper” than the polished public surface of a known figure…so Harper’s coiffed and managed and closed kinda schtick would definitely be a deterrent. at least to a demographic not inclined to be his trusting fans. and i don’t know how popular he is with the slice of the population keen on social software…but i suspect that’s too simplistic a division.

what i wonder is whether “cool” factor matters too…that you can be detached or managed if what you’re projecting has cultural capital to your audience. Harper’s clearly done a good job getting out there on flickr and twitter…so is it that the people who voted for him aren’t out there themselves, that they just don’t care enough about him to watch his stuff, or that they don’t think anything interesting will reveal itself in that stuff?

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