.@rupertmurdoch No, that’s just you.

— Alejandro A. Arbona (@Alejandrobot) May 5, 2012

I agree, @rupertmurdoch! Society needs to get back to a civilized state where we tapped the phones of murdered teenager’s mothers.

— Mike Monteiro (@Mike_FTW) May 5, 2012

@robdelaney @rupertmurdoch I blame the Sun, rather than the Mirror…

— Nick Frost (@nicholasfrost) May 5, 2012

.@rupertmurdoch: Sending you an invite to the civilized social network: MySpace. Check your inbox.

— Al Javieera (@AlJavieera) May 5, 2012

youtu.be/lLQkAApn4Io RT @rupertmurdoch: Seems impossible to have civilised debate on twitter.

— Andrew Exum (@abumuqawama) May 5, 2012

It’s not babysitting when it’s your own kid. RT @rupertmurdoch Having great day baby sitting youngest daughter

— Jason Sinclair (@JLSinc) May 5, 2012

If space is a practiced place, then collective navigation produces the commons. Like mall-rats flipping tricks in a parking lot, users exhibit a feral fluency in the use (and transgression, as it is reimagined daily) of this common timespace: we tune out the ads and get on with the serious business of flirting, hustling, hanging out and talking shit. We know that this serious business is affective labor which produces capital for the custodians of netspace; indeed, meme culture (including but not limited to Youtube parody, stock photo art, cut-ups and image macros) can be seen as the user asserting a subjectivity that exists and thrives despite (and beyond) her status as targeted marketing demographic. Like the Occupy movement, these activities amount to a kind of politics of the public (virtual) body in (virtual) space. We may never own the means of production as such, but will continue to assert, pervert and subvert the commons anyway: a gesture of post-corporeal territorial pissing which necessitates neither phallus nor spray-can nor html.

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Arcades, Mallrats, & Tumblr Thugs

“Javiera Mena followed Gepe”. ¿Y eso?

Not only does Twitter allow Americans to engage in participant voyeurism, it allows them to create the “news” about Iran for Iranians themselves, and apparently making it up as they go along. Indeed, anyone can be an Iranian in Twitter, and in fact all are being encouraged to “become” Iranian…

— America’s Iranian Twitter Revolution « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY