{"id":133,"date":"2008-04-28T08:41:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T08:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/04\/28\/tv-too-passive\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T10:07:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T10:07:26","slug":"tv-too-passive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/04\/28\/tv-too-passive\/","title":{"rendered":"TV is too passive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article by Clay Shirky: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herecomeseverybody.org\/2008\/04\/looking-for-the-mouse.html\">Gin, Television, and Social Surplus<\/a> discussing the similar social roles of gin and TV, and how we&#8217;re at the start of a big social change from passive to active:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this same conversation with the TV producer I was talking about World of Warcraft guilds, and as I was talking, I could sort of see what she was thinking: &#8220;Losers. Grown men sitting in their basement pretending to be elves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least they&#8217;re doing something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article by Clay Shirky: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus discussing the similar social roles of gin and TV, and how we&#8217;re at the start of a big social change from passive to active: In this same conversation with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2008\/04\/28\/tv-too-passive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,33,43,38,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmo","category-quickies","category-society","category-society-online","category-web20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}