Studying Social Media: Slate Magazine, Grantland.com

Task: Find as many social-media pages for Slate Magazine and Grantland.com as you can find.

This assignment was definitely a bit of a learning experience for the definition and uses of "social media." For me the assignment became less straight-forward as I went. I realize that there are so many ways of transmitting and sharing information besides broadcasting through industrial media, a term I learned just recently.

And every time I go down this rabbit hole and however familiar I might come to be with Internet Wonderland (that metaphor was a little forced, and a little cliche wasn't it?) it's still overwhelming.

I suppose there's also an interesting contradiction between the immediacy of accessing and posting information, and the long term interests of identity, intimacy, and relationships that people seek through sharing comments and making profiles. Perhaps that is what is tiring. Trust is something developed, you don't express it with

Or perhaps I lack the proper perspective.

It helps to think that social media is not a new phenomenon, just a new way of doing old phenomenon - communication. Nikola Tesla predicted the advent of cell phones (My new habit - because of this class and my internship - is to look for a citation, but I won't. If you haven't heard the fact before, you're just going to have to trust me.) I respect the integrity value of journalists, but do we really have to cite everything? Where do reporters or bloggers draw that line? I suppose it's to do with common sense.

Enough rambling.

Honestly, professor, I'm trying to find a balance between writing out my thoughts, and being obnoxious, which is actually something I strive not to be. "Language is a stream that is sure to smack of a mingled soil." ~ George Eliot

THE ASSIGNMENT

For the assignment, I first visited the main pages of the websites, and the definition of "social media" on Wikipedia. And here are the lists:

SLATE MAGAZINE

-Official Website: www.slate.com-Official Twitter: twitter.com/#!/Slate
-Official Facebook: www.facebook.com/slate

Now that we've covered the basics:

Social media for audio:
-www.slate.com/podcasts.html
-www.lastfm/music/Slate+Magazine
-www.podbean.com/provider?id=37

Social media for video:
-www.slatetv.com
-www.youtube.com/user/slatester
-www.slate.com/articles/video.html

Social media for mobile devices:
Slate can be available through iTunes, Kindle, Blackberry, iPad, and iPhone:
Links to all of these can be taken through here, under "Get Slate":
http://www.slate.com/id/85223

Social media for home subscription:
RSS feed:
-feeds.slate.com/slate
(and through this assignment I learned what an RSS is..)
-Newsletter signup:
-synd.slategrouptech.com/signup/
-http://mobile.slate.com


GRANTLAND.COM

-Official Website: www.grantland.com
-Official Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/Grantland33
-Official Facebook: www.facebook.com/grantland33

Now that we've covered the basics:

-Social media for audio:
-www.grandland.com/podcasts
-www.last.fm/music/Grantland+Network

-Social media for video:
-I found a video advertisement here:


Intimidating, isn't it?

-Social media for mobile devices:
-I wasn't able to find any direct mention.. I don't own any Apple products either..

-Social media for home subscription:
-www.grantland.com/feed
-www.mcsweeneys.net/grantland