WORK IT, MOVE IT, BANG IT, BUMP IT
Crank Dat Online Dance Craze
Kevin Driscoll
ROFLCon
26 April 2008
Present day, present time
Rethinking cast-off tools
1972 
1981 
1986 
1987 
1988 
Prototyping tools, reimagined and repurposed
Crank Dat Soulja Boy
"I am the internet." -- Soulja Boy
Official Video Drop
What is at stake? What are the risks?
Welcomingness
How many different ways can people join in?
- Dance
- Dress
- Video (tech and style)
- Music, Lyrics
- Race, Gender, Ethnicity
- Sub-culture
- Geography
Social Music
Ambience, noise, and popular music
"I don't like that word, jazz. [...] It's social music. All the social melodies out in the air. There's no jazz anymore." -- Miles Davis, Today Show interview (1:40), 1981.
Jumping Off
http://kevindriscoll.info/docs/presentations/workit/
driscoll@mit.edu
