Tech Journalist Alexia Tsotsis attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. She majored in Writing and Art moving to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Entertainment/Media industry. After 4 years of living in New York City and attending New Media Business courses at New York University she returned to Los Angeles in order to continue her career in new media and marketing—exploring the relationship between the technology industry and culture through her reporting for the LAWeekly.

Blog Entries by Alexia Tsotsis

What Would 9-11 Be Like in the Age of Social Media?

Posted September 14, 2009 | 02:59 PM (EST)


During the President's health care speech two days ago, the shared experience that is the realtime Internet reacted to a perfect Twitter-fodder event -- Joe Wilson's "you lie" outburst -- with a surprising amount of conversation about the real issue in the room, health care reform.

This realtime 24-7 Internet...

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Is All of Hollywood the Bitch in Twitter "Sex Tape," or Just P. Diddy?

Posted July 20, 2009 | 01:13 PM (EST)


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Regardless of what you think of Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington's ethics, what has been revealed via the Techcrunch #twittergate is some of the most fascinating information to have hit the mediasphere in a long time. As Cult of the Amateur author A.J. Keen puts...

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The Revolution Will Be Interrupted - An Interview With Wyclef Jean at the #140 Conference

Posted June 20, 2009 | 01:22 PM (EST)


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The social media sphere is a place of constant interruption. Therefore it's no surprise then that many of the 2.0 related conferences we attended this week in NYC were structured around the theme of disruption (the Wired Business Conference actually put the word 'disruptive'...

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Music Gaming at E3 Expo: First Look at Beatles Rock Band, Last.fm's Xbox Partnership

Posted June 10, 2009 | 12:52 PM (EST)


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Those of us who remember the '80s (um, not me) might recall Sony introducing the first CD player in 1982. We've all come a long way since then, and nowhere was this more evident than at E3 Expo this week. West Coast Sound's "three...

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Why Buy the Milk When You're Following the Cow on Twitter?

Posted May 8, 2009 | 05:56 PM (EST)


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When death of your industry becomes default small talk in the conference lobby and every media related conversation devolves into something along the lines of, "How do we save the Los Angeles Times?" you know things are not boding well. Perhaps this is why...

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Digital Hollywood on the Music Industry: Still Doomed?

Posted May 7, 2009 | 10:12 PM (EST)


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The Internet has the capacity to ruin some and propel others to stardom. The file-sharing site Napster turned the band Metallica into joke fodder, launched Radiohead into the US Top 20 for the first time and uprooted an entire Industry along the way. Nowhere...

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Shift Happens: Hollywood and Silicon Valley Bring It OnHollywood

Posted May 7, 2009 | 10:06 PM (EST)


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With no relief from the recession coming anytime soon, plus Monday's news that L.A.'s own Tsavo Media founder Mike Jones will now take over as COO of MySpace, it's high time Los Angeles and Silicon Valley broke out the peace pipe. The opportunity presented...

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