Pravir Samtani

Product, Fan Engagement @livenation, prev @ticketmaster, @sonymusic

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Ticketmaster just rolled out token-gated NFT integration.

It’s a big deal.

Here’s how it works

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@officialpiesam @nanassassass Only the best walk when Frames is the destination 🎳

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@into_vests Boooooooo

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@nanassassass Happy birthday!!

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@goodbivy I’m in the exact same situation and I voted don’t waste your time knowing full well I’m gonna force myself to keep reading mine

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@realGregCorbin How’d they turn out Greg?

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@CUComm3200 Social media platforms like Instagram and Pinterest have made fashion bloggers way more accessible and popular, but have also made it so that these bloggers cannot escape their jobs

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@CUComm3200 Gaming has always been a stereotypical male activity, so it's expected that women would face adversity on Twitch, but it's still encouraging to see that some have still been able to power through

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@CUComm3200 Instagram profiles have definitely become the new first thing that people go to when they look you up. Growing up it was always Facebook, but now I way more often get followed on IG than friended on FB

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@CUComm3200 I learned that even when people claim that they don't care much about privacy, they will still take measures to ensure that their private life stays out of the public eye, and that everyone cares about privacy to some extent

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@CUComm3200 It's easy to say to not engage with online trolls, but in practice, if you want to share your opinion, you are going to have to deal with people messing with you online, and it's not easy to just let all of that go

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@CUComm3200 Duffy and Chan make an intriguing point about how young people want to share more with their followers/online friends to establish intimacy, but understand that anything they send can come back to haunt them so they have to find the right balance

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@CUComm3200 I never really thought about how much music fans had an impact on the growth of the Internet. I know the Internet has had an astronomical impact on the music industry, but it's interesting to think about how the reverse is true

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@CUComm3200 surveillance capitalism is a dangerous concept that is implemented by too many popular services like Facebook, and it has resulted in a complete disregard of our privacy and commodification of human experience

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@CUComm3200 Workplace surveillance is a dangerous slippery slope. As long as people are getting their work done, they shouldn't be subject to strict scrutiny. It should only be those who are not performing up to the proper standards that are observed more closely

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@CUComm3200 Gladwell points out that weak ties are helpful in some aspects of life, but they do not lead to high-risk activism. While there is validity to that statement, it is dangerous to discount the importance of weak ties in social movements.

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@CUComm3200 Banet-Weiser details commodity activism, and while there are examples of it done poorly (Pepsi), it allows for major corporations to take a stand on an important societal issue and hopefully have a positive impact on the world

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@CUComm3200 Radovanovic makes a good point that governments around the world need to get more involved and "create more efficient strategies and programs to overcome such inequalities and not just provide techno-infrastructure."

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@CUComm3200 It's important to acknowledge both the positive and negative impacts that social media and bots had on society. Woolley and Howard do a good job of discussing the "large-scale, grassroots movements" but also the millions of bots that mimic humans and spread falsehoods

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@CUComm3200 Foer has a very negative, but fairly reasonable, view of the engineers behind much of the technology we use in our daily lives. He does not trust where this tech is taking us.