Comments on: Facebook TV Invasion Looms Via ‘American Idol’ Voting http://paidcontent.org/2011/02/24/419-facebook-tv-invasion-looms-via-american-idol-voting/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: j clmntl http://paidcontent.org/2011/02/24/419-facebook-tv-invasion-looms-via-american-idol-voting/#comment-82651 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:20:11 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/02/24/419-facebook-tv-invasion-looms-via-american-idol-voting/#comment-82651 the American Idol Facebook voting option is not equivalent to a ‘democratizing force’, as claimed by author Katherine Meizel, the author of “Idolized: Music, Media and Identity in ‘American Idol.’ It’s a mechanism for data intrusion, or in polite terms, a total bleeping farce.

]]> By: Bitmenu Publisher http://paidcontent.org/2011/02/24/419-facebook-tv-invasion-looms-via-american-idol-voting/#comment-82650 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:07:37 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/02/24/419-facebook-tv-invasion-looms-via-american-idol-voting/#comment-82650 Interesting article earlier this month reveals Facebook’s interest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12406171

Their point is that media is essentially social. Imagine Facebook Pages for every book, magazine, class and conference. Pages cost relatively little to deploy yet facilitate engagement and action. Straight-forward promotions through Ads and Pages, such as described here, assemble hugely persistent networked connections.

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