{"id":8574,"date":"2010-12-23T03:09:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T10:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:25:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T10:25:22","slug":"video-debate-is-facebook-american-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/video-debate-is-facebook-american-imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Debate: Is Facebook American Imperialism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That very bombastic question (is Facebook American Imperialism) was posed to me at the <a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediaclub.org\/\">Social Media Club<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediaclub.fr\/\">France Club<\/a> which took place near LeWeb a few weeks ago.  I was joined by my friend Paul Papadimitriou (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/papadimitriou\">Twitter<\/a>), and we were hosted by Fabrice Epelboin (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/epelboin\">Twitter<\/a>) who writes for Read Write Web.<\/p>\n<p>In this discussion we discuss social media from a global perspective (not just an American one) and we discuss and debate why many of the popular social networking sites are coming from United States, and adoption across the globe (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/a-collection-of-social-network-stats-for-2010\/\">see my collection of stats<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/video\/xg5xc0?width=480&amp;theme=none&amp;foreground=%23F7FFFD&amp;highlight=%23FFC300&amp;background=%23171D1B&amp;start=&amp;animatedTitle=&amp;iframe=0&amp;additionalInfos=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;hideInfos=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/video\/xg5xc0?width=480&amp;theme=none&amp;foreground=%23F7FFFD&amp;highlight=%23FFC300&amp;background=%23171D1B&amp;start=&amp;animatedTitle=&amp;iframe=0&amp;additionalInfos=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;hideInfos=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xg5xc0_smc-lounge-2011-trends-iv_tech\">SMC Lounge &#8211; 2011 trends IV<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/techtoctv\">techtoctv<\/a>. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/us\/channel\/tech\" target=\"_self\">Discover more science and tech videos.<\/a><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions for discussion, join in comments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why are so many social networking sites coming from the United States?<\/li>\n<li>How does this impact culture? Do the default Facebook features reflect an American culture yet not reflect other cultures?<\/li>\n<li>As every culture has different views on privacy, free speech, how can a global tool meet the many needs of others?<\/li>\n<li>Is Facebook a form of American Imperialism?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That very bombastic question (is Facebook American Imperialism) was posed to me at the Social Media Club France Club which took place near LeWeb a few weeks ago. I was joined by my friend Paul Papadimitriou (Twitter), and we were hosted by Fabrice Epelboin (Twitter) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/video-debate-is-facebook-american-imperialism\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video Debate: Is Facebook American Imperialism?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}