Get your clips out (with Aoife Barry)

About this episode

Elaine is joined by Aoife Barry to discuss the prevalence of short video clips on social media and their impact on trends and virality.

This week, Kelly has lost her voice! So Elaine is joined by cultural commentator, previous guest, and co-host of Get Around to It, Aoife Barry, to discuss why our feeds are filled with short video clips, and how ‘clipping’ is used to simulate trends and fake virality. If you’re a fan of the band Geese, you may have already been subject to these manipulations. *** Good things we recommend *** >> Catch up with Aoife at AoifeBarry.com   >> Listen to Elaine and Jenny interview Aoife about her book Social Capital   >> Listen to the Chaotic Good interview on Billboard’s On the Record podcast   >> Check out the next Get Around to It table quiz on 8 July   >> Come see Elaine chat with Dr Abeba Birhane at IFI’s Ghost in the Machine screening >> Sign up for Out of the Archive and Into the Record , a Wiki Loves Pride event >> Check out the Open Accessibility Assessment Framework for Computer Peripherals and Consumer Electronics   >> Celebrate Reuse and Repair Week with Tog in Belfast *** More from us *** Kelly’s Substack: kellysrubbish.substack.com   FTS blog: for-techs-sake.ghost.io   FTS TikTok…

People in this episode

Hosts: Elaine Burke, Kelly Earley

Guest: Aoife Barry

Topics covered

• short video clips
• social media trends
• fake virality
• cultural commentary
• music industry

Keywords

• video clips
• social media
• trends
• virality
• cultural commentary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Get Around to It, Billboard, IFI, Tog, Wiki Loves Pride, Open Accessibility Assessment Framework

Products: Social Capital

Places: Belfast

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