{"id":130,"date":"2009-06-23T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-07-01T11:59:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T15:59:54","slug":"interview-live-qa-with-daniel-levitin-co-host-of-the-music-instinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/mi-blog\/interview\/interview-live-qa-with-daniel-levitin-co-host-of-the-music-instinct\/130\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Q&amp;A with Daniel Levitin co-host of The Music Instinct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download A transcript of the Twitter-based Q&amp;A (<a href=\"\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/files\/2009\/07\/daniellevitinqa.pdf\">PDF<\/a> | <a href=\"\/wnet\/musicinstinct\/files\/2009\/07\/daniellevitinqa.rtf\">RTF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>During the broadcast premiere of <em>The Music Instinct: Science &amp; Song<\/em> on June 24th at 9pm (ET), Dr. Daniel Levitin, co-host of The Music Instinct and author of the best-selling books <em>This Is Your Brain On Music<\/em> and <em>The World In Six Songs<\/em> took your questions about the show live via Twitter. Daniel Levitin&#8217;s Twitter account can be viewed and followed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/danlevitin\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Levitin can be asked questions directly through Twitter by including &#8220;@danlevitin&#8221; in your tweets (as Twitter messages are known), and we ask that tweets about the show include the hashtag #musicinstinct.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is a free, real-time short messaging service that allows individuals to post messages of up to 140 characters in length. Conversation is filtered through the use of descriptive words known as &#8220;tags&#8221; that allow anyone on Twitter interested in a particular subject or conversation to see only those messages (i.e. &#8220;tweets&#8221;) pertaining to that topic.   During the live Q&amp;A, viewers can view the online conversation in real-time by going to the following web URL:  <a href=\"http::\/\/search.twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\">http::\/\/search.twitter.com<\/a> and typing in the tag: #musicinstinct into the search box.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the use of tags, conversation on Twitter can be directed to particular users of the service by using the @ symbol in connection with their Twitter ID.  Dr. Levitin&#8217;s Twitter ID is danlevitin.  Any questions for Dr. Levitin about the Music Instinct should be directed to Dr. Levitin by including @danlevitin in that Twitter message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download A transcript of the Twitter-based Q&amp;A (PDF | RTF) During the broadcast premiere of The Music Instinct: Science &amp; Song on June 24th at 9pm (ET), Dr. Daniel Levitin, co-host of The Music Instinct and author of the best-selling books This Is Your Brain On Music and The World In Six Songs took your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[5019,5440,986,4172],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","tag-daniel-levitin","tag-live-interview","tag-science","tag-twitter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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