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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Leeds Beckett University
Facebook is like disco and Twitter is like punk
Facebook is like disco and Twitter is like punk is a Tedx style 18 minute show, where over 200 animated slides are shown while Dr Kill DJs live using seven inch vinyl records. It was performed at:-
Shift Happens Episode IV: A New Hope, July 5th 2012, York, Theatre Royal http://www.pilot-theatre.com/?IDNO=1191
Improving Reality, 6th Sept 2012,Pavilion Theatre, Brighton https://s3.amazonaws.com/lighthouse.s3.amazonaws.com/IR_Programme_2012.pdf
Twitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional and Personal Practices, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, 10 - 12 April 2013 http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/twitter_and_microblogging/info.htm
Doc Fest, 14th June 2013, Sheffield
http://sheffdocfest.com/speakers/view/5277
However, this work has also had significant impact online. This performance has also been viewed on Rebekka Kill’s blog http://djtheduchess.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/facebook-is-like-disco-and-twitter-is-like-punk/ and on two other blogs. http://leedsplaylist.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/facebook-is-like-disco-and-twitter-is-like-punk-by-drrebekkakill/ and http://pennybinary.com/2012/07/06/dr-rebekka-kill-facebook-is-like-disco-and-twitter-is-like-punk/.
This work uses the vocabulary of popular music, autobiography and music nostalgia in order to facilitate discussion of social media; a media that academics and non-academics alike struggle to find appropriate vocabulary for. The work has been performed live in four very different contexts. Three times to very different “non-academic audiences”: in York to theatre and journalism practitioners, in Brighton to an audience who are mainly digital, animation and sequential art practitioners and in Sheffield to film and documentary practitioners. It has also been performed in Lancaster with an academic audience drawn mainly from the field of linguistics. Each of these performances created significant interest on Twitter nationally and worldwide. Estimated Twitter reach of this work is around 3 million and actual views across all of the various platforms that the presentation is available on are around ten thousand. These are around 80% in the UK and the rest across the world. The contribution that this performance makes is to use the music genres as a metaphor for both academic and non-academic comparative discussion on genres of social media.
