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Social Media SMW Day 4: Discovering New Music Plus Ian “Enable” Wyatt

February 17, 2011 - 11:59 am

Ian “Enables” My Gaming Habit

Red Bull Space knows how to do Happy Hour. Not only did they provide alcohol for Social Media Week attendees last week, but they provided video games! Each day of SMW11, attendees could hang out in the Gaming Lounge and drink Red Bull & Vodkas as they tried their hand at Wii Snowboarding, raced in Gran Turismo, or shot at enemy soldiers in the new HALO Reach game. The star of the Happy Hour on the third day of SMW, however, was Ian “Enable” Wyatt. At only 17 years old, he’s one of the top HALO players in the world! Gaming fans had the opportunity to play with Wyatt in a relaxed atmosphere, allowing them to get into the minds and play-style of one of their gamer idols. And so did I!

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Social Media Tweet Like the Stars (or Learn From Celebrity Mistakes) – Social Media Week Day 3

by Teresa Jusino

February 16, 2011 - 8:07 am

Who would’ve thought that a panel about celebrity tweeting would’ve been so intelligent? When I first saw the description of this panel, I thought it would be a bit of fluff. However, when you put together a panel of people who are not only pop culture reporters, but true journalists, you realize that there’s a lot more going on than just who’s sleeping with whom. (Though there’s plenty of that, too).

At the Tweet Like the Stars: Celebrities Using Social Media to Successfully Build Their Brands panel at Red Bull Space, BuzzMedia organized a panel of well-respected editors and columnists from both print and online entertainment news sources: Mike Hess (Celebuzz), Eloise Parker (OK! Magazine), Bonnie Fuller (Hollywood Life), Rob Shuter (PopEater), moderated by Mike Porath, SVP of Programming at BuzzMedia. They managed to not only successfully examine how celebrities are using social media to build their brands, but also translate how those same techniques could be applied to themselves and to businesses that have nothing to do with entertainment.

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Social Media Twitter Saves Music at SMW

by Teresa Jusino

February 15, 2011 - 9:52 am

If Day 1 was all about singing Facebook’s praises, Day 2 was all about how Twitter kicks Facebook’s ass; at least as far as the music industry is concerned…

Is Social Media Music’s Savior?

BUZZMEDIA hosted an event with the Kanye-inspired title, The Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy of Social Media as Music’s Savior, which featured a panel of respected music curators and promoters: Angel Laws (ConcreteLoop.com), Jessica Suarez (Stereogum), Tamar Anitai (MTV.com/MTV Buzzworthy), Rob Bonstein (Epic Records) and moderated by Jeff Leeds, Editor in Chief for Music at BUZZMEDIA.

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Social Media Social Media Week Day 1: Real-life vs Facebook, Africa and More

by Teresa Jusino

February 14, 2011 - 10:42 am

Social media will never replace real-life, human interaction. This was the surprising, but reassuring theme of Social Media Week 2011 in NYC (there were also events in nine other cities). Both big events I attended at Red Bull Space on the first day kept coming back to that idea; that social media is a wonderful tool, but at the end of the day, success is determined by the quality of your relationships with other human beings. Shocking, right?

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Geek The Best of 2010…according to Teresa Jusino

by Teresa Jusino

December 27, 2010 - 10:06 am

TERESA JUSINO’S GEEK IN A CHINASHOP TOP 5

Best TV Show: Caprica
Caprica was one of the exceptional shows on television this year. A well-written, flawlessly acted, thought-provoking show that provided a showcase for social and ethnic minorities in a way that isn’t common in Hollywood. Sadly, Caprica was canceled before its first season even finished airing. But don’t fret! Those of you who haven’t been watching can already get the first half of Season 1 on DVD, and Season 1.5, which contains the rest of the season, including the five as-yet unaired episodes, was released December 20th! Just in time for a last minute gift purchase for the sci-fi fans in your life! The final five Caprica episodes will air in a marathon on SyFy January 4th at 6PM ET.

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Geek GEEK IN A CHINASHOP: May the Force Be With Katie

by Teresa Jusino

December 9, 2010 - 1:27 pm

Now, more than ever, a Geek Girl movement is thoroughly under way. Books like Chicks Dig Time Lords, panels like “Geek Girls Exist” at San Diego Comic Con, and upcoming events like Geek Girl Con in Seattle all spotlight the fact that not only do women and girls genuinely enjoy things like sci-fi and fantasy independent of the men in their lives, but that they have valuable contributions to make to the creation of sci-fi/fantasy stories, as well as to their respective fandoms.

It’s easy to dismiss such efforts as unnecessary in 2010. After all, do we really need another “Women in Sci-Fi” panel? Aren’t we past all that? Couldn’t women just be included in things where gender isn’t the primary focus? Well, no. Not yet. If you ever wonder why the current rise of the “Geek Girl” movement is so important, one only need look at stories like that of Katie, a 7 year old Star Wars fan in Illinois who was teased in school for carrying a Star Wars water bottle.

Because Star Wars is “for boys.” Apparently.

Katie’s mother, Carrie Goldman, wrote a blog for ChicagoNow about the general topic of bullying and related it specifically to the teasing Katie was getting as early as first grade. When the news of Katie being teased for her Star Wars paraphenalia hit the internet, the geeky troops were rallied and the story was spread everywhere. Soon, Katie and her mother were being interviewed on national news programs and online for outlets like The Huffington Post. #MayTheForceBeWithKatie became a popular hashtag on Twitter, and a Facebook group was started for what has become Wear Star Wars/Share Star Wars Day, which is tomorrow, December 10th!

I had the chance to speak with Ms. Goldman about being a parent to the most well-known Star Wars fan under 10, how Katie’s been doing now that she’s been adopted by the geek community, and how she hopes Katie’s story will help others.

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Comic Books COMICS: Droppin’ the ZombieBomb!

by Teresa Jusino

December 8, 2010 - 12:09 pm

A clear sign that the geeks have inherited the Earth, and that mainstream culture is embracing genres like horror, sci-fi, and fantasy is the prevelance of zombies in pop culture. From The Walking Dead to 28 Days Later (I’ll let you all debate whether you think the things in that movie actually qualify as zombies), from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to World War Z, zombies are everywhere, and it isn’t only geeks who are signing up to prepare for the zombie apocalypse. As Adam Miller of Terminal Press points out, “Well, the thing about it is that I don’t think it’s so much a fad anymore. I think it’s really become its own genre. It think it’s like The Western. I don’t think it’s going anywhere.”

Adam Miller and Rich Woodall honor the zombie genre through an anthology series they edit for Terminal Press called ZombieBomb! Currently on its third issue, ZombieBomb! assembles a broad range of talented artists and writers to create new zombie stories for each issue. What makes this zombie anthology special is the diversity of the storytelling brought to the zombie-loving public by artists with diverse backrounds – it boasts comics professionals, children’s book illustrators, photographers, and even a heavy metal musician! – which allows the books to offer stories in a range of styles from different points of view.

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Contributors GEEK ACTIVISM: The Nerdy Bird Uses Her Powers to Fight for the MDA

by Teresa Jusino

November 16, 2010 - 10:59 am

Pantozzi cosplays as a Red Lantern

Geeks know how to mobilize. Contrary to what you might think, they don’t just mobilize to save failing television shows. Sometimes, they use their vast social networking skills to mobilize for good. Sometimes, they mobilize to change the world. I hope to regularly spotlight those geeky activists here at ChinaShop to show the world what I already know; that the Geek Community is made up of some of the most caring and heroic people on the planet!

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Fashion GEEK FASHION: Connect to your Caprican Roots!

by Teresa Jusino

November 11, 2010 - 11:42 am

It’s been over two millenia since the Colonials and the Cylons first inhabited our world, becoming the catalysts for humanity as we know it, but we continue to discover more about our past. As recently as January 2009, scientists have uncovered a lot of information about life on the colonies before the first Cylon War. In addition to the discovery of the connection between the ancient holoband and cylons as we know them, we’ve also learned a great deal about what they wore and how they lived. This week, a relic was discovered in an archeological dig in Tunisia, a briefcase that contained, among other things, a fashion magazine called Caprican Woman that was surprisingly well-preserved. The cover tells us that it is the “Tauron Issue”, and one of the photo spreads contrasts the differences in women’s fashion on Caprica and Tauron. Below, you’ll find a scan of the surviving pages of the photo spread.

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Fashion Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

by Teresa Jusino

September 20, 2010 - 11:35 am

It is a truth universally acknowledged that geek girls who game, watch sci-fi, or read fantasy novels must not be be concerned with anything that’s traditionally girly. Well, it might be universally acknowledged, but that doesn’t make it true. Thank the Lords of Kobol for companies like Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, who provide perfumes and other fragrance essentials with a distinct appeal for today’s discriminating geek.

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