30 JUN 2013 by ideonexus
Piracy Preserves Data and Media that Otherwise Wouldn't b...
In Nigeria as elsewhere, piracy creates new kinds of archives inconceivable outside
of this mode of media reproduction. In markets specializing in wholesale
tape duplication, sellers have sprung up specializing in the storage and preservation
of different music forms. These sellers maintain substantial archives
of Indian film songs, traditional Hausa singers such as Mamman Shata and
Musa ‘Dan Kwairo, and new music forms such as bandiri, a religious music
that takes tunes from Hindi films an... 1 
notes
notesThis is true of the Pirate Bay, where it is possible to find out-of-print games, discontinued music, and old collectible books nearly impossible to get otherwise.
25 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
Media-User Typology (MUT) Identifies Five Types of Social...
User typesFrequency of useVariety of useTypical activityTypical platformStudiesOther labels
(1) Non-users
No use
No use
No
All
Largest of all user types
Non-Internet users, Off the net, Inactives, Non-users, Non-users, Anxiety,
(2) Sporadics
Low use
Low variety
No particular activity, low interest, newcomers
All
Found in 20 studies
Followers, Sporadics, Laggards, Confused and Adverse, Followers, Indifferents, Indifferent, Media Lite, Average users, Inexperienced experimenters, Risk-averse dou... 1 notes
notesA table of different Social Media user types and their characteristics.
ToDo: Fixe white space style for this table.
