Amazon reviews as Performance Art
Alex’s post on Amazon wish-lists as performance art reminded me of a project I did a few years ago for a seminar taught by Cornell’s Geri Gay on Computer Mediated Communication. I’d been meaning to put this online for a while, so here it is…
The project was an analysis of the ways that people were using the public space of Amazon product reviews as a performance space, riffing off of books and each other (in particular on pages selling Bil Keane’s Family Circus collections). If nothing else, the sheer volume of the reviews is impressive, and some of them are quite funny…