Must be something sports-related…
February 28, 2010
January 30, 2010
A quick guide to the maxims of new media
“We journalism/new media nerds like to think of ourselves as being pretty open, but we can be a bit clannish at times: We close ranks to defend a few core principles, we have our own hierarchy of gurus and we use our own set of words and phrases. When I dove into the future-of-journalism world, I quickly found that a few of these phrases function as shorthand for big, fundamental ideas. They often get traded without explanation and sometimes without links, leaving the uninitiated pretty confused and possibly a little turned off, too.
Consider this your dictionary for those phrases. If you’ve got any more suggestions, by all means, let me know in the comments. This guide is very expandable.”
via @jayrosen_nyu
January 12, 2010
CfP: 2nd Global Conference: Digital Memories (March 2010: Salzburg, Austria)
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication and examine how online users form, archive and de-/code their memories in cybermedia environment, and how the systems used for production influence the way the users perceive and work with the memory. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural contexts of memory co-/production, re-/mediation, en-/decoding, dissemination, personal/mass interpretation and preservation.
Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are invited on any of the following themes:
1. Digital Personal and Community Memory
Theories and Concepts of Memory. The Digitisation of Individual and Community Memory. Identifying Key Features and Issues.
2. Externalization and Mediation of Memories
Memory Metaphors in the Digital Age. Web 2.0 Services as a Medium for Production/Dissemination of Memory. Representational Principles for Memory Recording.
3. Memories and Cybercultures
Social Networking and Fan Cultures. New Media Arts and Memory.
4. Memory and Inter-Culturalism
Expatriate, Dissent and Emigrant Cultures and Communities Online.
5. Memory and Technology
The Memory of Digital Media and Systems. The Memory Infrastructures and the User Response.
6. Emergent Technologies for Memory Capturing
The Spatialization of Memories in Virtual Worlds. Prototyping Tools for Digital Autobiographic and Biographic Productions. Experimental Interfaces.
7. Archiving and Dissemination of Memory Data
Digital Data Recording. Memory Restoring and Preservation Strategies. Digital Libraries and Archives as a Community Memory. Database Structuring, Data Retrieval and Usage. User Response and Modelling.
8. Uses of New Media for Production of Historical Knowledge
National Identity and Memory in the Digital Age. Political Uses of Cybermedia for Historical Revisionism.
9. Specific Research on Community Memory
Social Issues Research. Online Ethnographic Research. Privacy and Legal Issues in Community Informatics.
January 9, 2010
Games & genres: The Acknowledgements page from Vili Lehdonvirta’s Virtual Consumption (2009)
via curate + juliandibbell
January 4, 2010
"Social participation is the oil of the digital economy. Life itself is put to work. The Social Web is free for us to use but the middleman is paid with our data. We are willing give up our anonymity for convenience and “free services.” We are then here to be traced and not to lost our names. Time spent on Facebook and Twitter stops us from pursuing the expropriation of the expropriators. It is a classic double bind. Many people depend on their web-presence and the wealth of their network when they enter the job market… The future may be user-led but each click for the benefit of the commons is also potential, profit in the pockets of the intermediaries."
— semioticmonkey on Dec 30th, 2009
December 20, 2009
Twitter Mosaic - the human network.
via wildcat2030 + Brian Solis
I love how glitchy it looks. Apt :)
December 18, 2009
"What would happen if the printed book had just been invented in a high-tech world in which people had never done their reading from anything but computer screens? The unquestionable advantages of the computer would not be threatened by this new product but the people, who so love to compare apples with pears, would be quite bowled over by this ultra-modern invention: after years spent chained to the screen they would suddenly have something they could open like a window or a door – a machine you can physically enter! For the first time knowledge would be combined with a sense of touch and gravity – this new invention allows you to experience the most incredible sensations, reading becomes a physical experience. And after experiencing knowledge only as a bundle of connections, as a system of interacting networks, suddenly here is individuality: every book is an independent personality, which cannot be taken apart or added to at will. And how relaxing these new reading appliances are, their operating systems never needs updating – the only thing that changes over the course of time is the message that they contain, which is always open to new interpretations."
— Juan Villoro, in an article in last month’s adn CULTURA (an Argentinian culture magazine) about the “future of books.” via Photography Prison + Darius Himes
November 24, 2009
"What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."
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via designtumblelog + delayprocrastinate + anin + libraryland + booklover + guerrillamamamedicine
November 20, 2009
“Oh, and the picture above? That’s a shot from a lab Disney is operating very quietly down in Austin. Using behavioral science and human subjects, they are tracking heart-rate, skin temperature, facial muscles and eye movements to cognitively engineer irresistible web pages and on-line advertisements.”
November 20, 2009
Which Images Represent India?
“I’m calling this the Slumdog Shooting technique – use English because you don’t want to alienate your Western audience with subtitles, but keep the local colour full of attractive yet needy children, crowds that look struggling, and picturesque poverty.” via @socimages
November 13, 2009
Sure I want to fight Communism - but how?
via easternblocparty + kinochestvo + ex-genius + dengedenge
November 11, 2009
the (flightless) birds. this triggers a distinct memory of texting someone in beirut about watching hitchcock’s birds in nyc after that person had texted about listening to a costello song i was into & thinking of me. isn’t this networked, intertextual, cross-temporal highbrow/lowbrow meshwork of affectivity wonderful? and like, really really privileged?
cute pic :)
via blackandwtf + happyphototeam
November 7, 2009
"If you own a piano, you own a piano. If you own a camera you’re a photographer."
— David Bram in an interview on flash-flood (via photographyprison)
November 3, 2009
Theodor W. Adorno, the carnival-goer
October 27, 2009
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