BBC’s Virtual Revolution
Tonight I, along with almost everyone who is driven by the www, tuned into the first episode of the BBC's Virtual Revolution programme, presented by Aleks Krotoski. Not a history of the world wide web as many people expected it to be but a thematic look at how the internet and the www is affecting the world socially.
But the most obvious evidence of the social impact is how quickly the #bbcrevolution tag trended on Twitter. That we now have the means for so many in a world wide arena to comment and interact live as we watch is surely one of the greatest changes that it has facilitated. To me this not just adds, but multiplies the value of watching such a programme. I was able to comment, engage in debate and learn from others knowledge, stopping me from being solely dependant upon the progamme makers version of events.
So if you're not using Twitter already, you're missing out, sign up, download tweetdeck and, instead of just consuming TV, enter the debate.
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January 30, 2010 at 10:00 pm | General, Social Media | 5 comments
January 30th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Well expressed - I too was thinking throughout the programme about how there were more dimensions to it now.
Watching alongside so very many others with so very many views, certainly rounds out the picture spectacularly and unpredictably.
It feels like Twitter et al are not the revolution; just the conduits for either creating it or (more hopefully) bybassing any need for it.
Namaste,
Tina Louise
@tinalouiseUK
January 30th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Thanks Tina, yes I often comment, when talking about Social Media, that this isn’t something new and scary it’s just providing a great new set of tools for doing something humankind has always loved to do - communicate. To network, share experience, learn and develop, but instead of talking to ones and twos its now to the hundreds, thousands and millions, which to me does demonstrate it being a great social leveller, as in the past this communicating with many was limited to a few, normally political, people.
January 30th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
And not communicating ‘down’ to the many - but ‘out’ to it.
Also thinking that I have no pre-formed opinions of those I share a #hashtag with and that too is another unforeseen cause of some effect that I have yet to grasp!
January 31st, 2010 at 11:21 am
I think the quick trending was due to the fact that there was a hash tag designated for the program at the very start. First time i’ve seen this on TV as often there is a mix of tags depending what people want to focus their debate on.
It certainly adds another dimension to a program as you say adding to the experience, but being a bloke its difficult for me to join in a live debate while watching a program without missing some parts of the program.
Maybe using a live chat facility after the program would be good, albeit doesn’t sound as sexy as “twittering”? But then its not new either?
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