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Production - [Critical Media Concepts and Contexts]
"All that is solid melts into air" (Engels, F. & Marx, K., 1848. The Communist Manifesto) This lecture explored the notion of production, and found that every attempt to pin "production" down ended in the pursuit of something disappearing.
Evaporation du lac by FrancoisRoche on Flickr
Introduction
The ideas presented can be summarised in any one of the following ways:
- an examination of how creativity and production are actually forms of translation and transformation: not making something from nothing (creation) but reworking existing things into new forms (reproduction)
- deconstructing the common perception that human civilisation, with its industrial and manufacturing superstructures which underpin commercial production, represent a form of progress towards an ever better future.
- suggesting that the human production of knowledge is inseparable from the practices and motives which underpin it: it is instrumental, not objective
- tracing the shift away from the object and its aura, towards experience and its commodification
We occasionally looked at the practice of mapping in order to illustrate some of these ideas.
Production as creativity
- Poiesis - production as it is expressed by philosophers like Aristotle and Heidegger. The latter's notion of poiesis is a bringing-forth, like "the bursting of a blossom into bloom" (Heidegger, M., 1954. The Question Concerning Technology) - not the magical creation of things that did not exist before: rather, a liminal, threshold experience which facilitates transformation.
March 19, 2006: Apple tree blossoms by Matt McGee on Flickr
- Memetics and memes - the notion that thoughts, ideas and units of cultural information as they are expressed in our conscious thoughts are transferred and spread from mind to mind as genes are spread from body to body via reproduction. As such humans are merely vehicles - for both genes and memes. The idea was coined by Richard Dawkins (1976. The Selfish Gene) and has been taken up by other commentators on cultural ideas.
- Representation - the basic problems of philosophy revolve around various configurations of three components and their relationships: the world, the subject and representation. Representation might be thought of as the image of the world in our conscious thought. Various different philosophical traditions might argue about the relationship between the world and our image of the world (i.e. the relationship between world and representation). See Arthur C. Danto for a good introduction to the problems of philosophy, (1997. Connections to the World)
Shadow Play by Swamibu on Flickr
We can think then of representation as a reproduction of the world - the image of the world as it appears in human consciousness. A map, too, is a representation of the world. Does conscious human thought "map" accurately onto the world? For that matter, do maps accurately represent the world (consider the reductionism inherent in portraying the multi-dimensional earth in the two dimensions of a piece of paper or a screen)? Representation is a mediated and interpreted image of what is given: a copy of the world, which may be subject to distortion through our imperfect human sensory apparatus. As Shakespeare intimates - we see through a glass, darkly.
The images we work and rework - such as poetry (from the same etymological root as poiesis) are not inventions of language, but the reimplementation and translation of language. Of course language mutates and evolves through use. The introduction of "newness" - variety, diversity, heterogeneity might be comparable to the evolution of new species: iterative mutation induced through erroneous copying. The "meme" is the cultural manifestation of the biological gene.
Creativity, then might not be about a godlike ability to conjure things into existence from nothing, but part of the work of constant change and transformation that human beings enter into. There is no production, there is only reproduction, and - thankfully - reproduction is given to error?
translation by Swiv on Flickr
Production as the material and immaterial means of production and reproduction
- The parasite - the parasite is an organism which exploits a host without returning any benefit. Michael Serres' philosophical work (1984, The Parasite) provokes the thought that reproduction is a parasitical process. We might note that our industrial production processes viewed at the planetary level might be seen as rather parasitical.
- Complexity and reductionism - trying to understand either the material or immaterial systems which encompass contemporary culture requires getting to grips with prohibitively complex networks of interrelated factors, so we take short cuts (systems theory, marxism, discourse analysis, etc). Niklas Luhmann's development of systems theory - especially his application of it to the mass media (1996. The Reality of the Mass Media) is instructive here.
- Mechanical reproduction - understanding reproduction (and what it is we are reproducing) is one of the ways which people (especially marxists) have used to try to analyse the relationship between 'production' and culture.
No471701 by . SantiMB . on Flickr
- Marxism - a inescapably important thread of cultural analysis for over 150 years. You can find more about marxism here and ideology here. A marxist analysis of production might lead us to conclude that our acts of production and reproduction are aimed at little more than the continual reproduction of the means and conditions of our being able to engage in acts of production and reproduction. This might help us to understand everything from the resilience of capitalism to Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message" (1964. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man).
- Aura - the important and influential writer Walter Benjamin, who emerged form the important and influential Frankfurt School (who criticised the capital-oriented culture industry), analysed mechanical reproduction as leading to the loss of 'aura' of the work of art: the 'authentic' unique object of pilgrimage becomes the disposable object of consumption (1935. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction). Wither, and whither, the aura?
- Aesthetics, politics and fascism - Benjamin's sometimes equivocal essay (sometimes appearing to celebrate processes of democratisation and rebellion against the authority of tradition) also suggests that mechanical reproduction opens art up to exploitation for political purposes (i.e. propaganda); essentially, the co-option of art by those seeking power helped to facilitate the rise of fascism. He suggests that the aestheticisation of politics (in contemporary terms, this might be seen in the triumph of PR in politics) should be combated by the politicisation of art.
- Technological determinism - the suggestion that human lives are shaped by the technologies they invent. This idea is often ridiculed, since it is taken, in extremis, to argue that human beings have no freedom or agency. It is nevertheless a useful concept when thinking about how, for example, the built environment determines human behaviour: think about how the architecture of spaces like supermarkets and airports 'funnel' your movements. The argument here might be how much this is influenced by technology (which after all, human beings "create") and how much our behaviour is socially learned and constructed. See Henri Lefebvre (1974. The Production of Space) or Marc Augé (1995. Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity) on the way we make, and are made by, space.
Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology by gadl on Flickr
Imagine I create a web page with an interactive map. My act of production of this web-based product relies on a precariously constructed network of immaterial labour interacting with the material conditions which facilitate and shape it. I utilise APIs providing textually represented information to write codes implemented by browsers using interpreters based on formats produced by assemblages of people working commercially towards shareholder profit or in open source collectives for infinitely varied motives, using complex stacks of code layers whose material manifestations essentially consist of the configuration of magnetised atoms on slivers of semi-conductors, co-opted into the mediation and storage of binary digits.
labyrinthine circuit board lines by quapan on Flickr
As of November 2009, the internet weighs 498, 438,559,990 kg (2009. Slashdot, How Heavy is the Internet?). How does one begin to untangle the complex web of interactions which go into the production of something which has only existed for a few decades and yet has grown mind-bogglingly large? And what perspectives might we take on the partner to our exponential growth in material production and reproduction? The partner of production is consumption: what ways can we hope to make sense of the consumption of resources that our production necessitates? How many more internets' worth of plastic and metal waste do we dump in landfills every year?
Calgary NW Landfill - 3 by D'Arcy Norman on Flickr
The interactions between the many actors which constitute the material and immaterial nodes in the networks of production and reproduction which facilitate our work as makers of digital artefacts, writers of diegeses on paper, copiers of performances onto photographic film, are extraordinarily complex, and all mutually embedded in and amongst each other. To pull out nodes from the network is to inevitably foreground certain figures and to discount other grounds. Such disembeddings are reductive: they try to simplify and by doing so, exclude. Only with such caveats should we proceed.
Production as the narrative of human knowledge
- Instrumental reason - the idea that human knowledge strives towards ever greater objective truth is a problematic idea; we might wonder if human knowledge is much more instrumental - i.e. partially directed towards purposes and outcomes.
- Teleology - the idea of future purpose. Humans often behave teleologically - believing that we are making progress, that we are working towards purposes. Instrumental reason as described above is exemplary of telelogically directed activities. But we might also question whether 'progress' is inevitably towards better things.
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Dividers [Project Blake] by joeflintham on Flickr
Consider maps and their relation to human perception and space and place to illustrate this. Early maps do not show aerial views, but human level perspectives. Naturalistic attempts at spatial and geographical "accuracy" (i.e. attempting to create spatially representative images of coastlines, cities and roads: "geography" literally means the drawing of the earth) is a late invention: earlier maps showed boundaries as perfectly circular, rivers as straight, important buildings as circles, etc. It is too simple to say that these early maps are "less accurate": actually they were trying to achieve something other than the naturalistic representation that we seek in maps.
Centro storico by zZeta on Flickr
Do maps get better as they get more naturalistically representative? Or, do they perhaps just serve different (rather than better) purposes? A contemporary geological map might be very useful to someone looking for minerals, but incomprehensible to most other people. Cook's mapping of the antipodes was as much a part of, and inseparable from, the practice of empire-building aided with ships and guns, as it was about charting navigable routes or creating disinterested representations of the natural world in order to have a more complete and objective understanding of it.
Some concluding remarks
- Simulacrum - Jean Baudrillard (1985. Simulacra and Simulation) imagined the world we inhabit as being a simulacrum - a 1:1 map of the world, rather than the world itself. The world of representation - that image world which humans construct around themselves, the world of mediation - is the world we inhabit. This world of experience is no longer "authentic" - its aura has withered as it has become an endlessly reproducible commodity. Experience has become the commodity produced for the purpose of consumption.
streetview by dq. on Flickr
Google Streetview is close to showing us the 1:1 map of the world - an external environment centred around the roads and commercial centres which structure our lives. Have we disappeared into that frozen mediated world in which nothing occurs but exchange, capital, and commerce? Are there no more geographies to explore or maps to produce, and are we now only left to consume the endlessly reproduced products of a culture industry? Have we disappeared into the map, or can we use the map to create authentic experiences? Perhaps we can escape the tyranny of consumption by becoming producers of our own experiences, using the resources of the given world: like the flâneur - the stroller and seeker of visions - of Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin?
BlakeWalkers by joeflintham
DJ Spooky has likened DJs to contemporary "troubadours", and that the artistry of remixing "found" sounds and samples is part of a new digital folk culture. (Birringer, J. 2008. Performance, Technology and Science, New York: PAJ Publications). The direct comparison here is with oral cultures in which the same stories are used and retold, each telling generates new rhythms and themes, resonances and meanings. Traditional music lovers might long for "real" music - as though the sound produced by a bow on a cello is somehow more "authentic" than a sample of a sample of a sample. Where is originality, newness, creativity and authenticity?
Is the DJ a parasite on the creative work of artists nurtured by the culture industry? Or is industry capital a parasite on the productive work of the artist? Or are the works themselves, the audio ephemera, around which such praxis and commerce revolve: the memes - are these the real parasites?
Draft review notes #3
Imported from Menticulture
[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]
So the everyday is always written off: the mass produce trash culture without quality; they fail to rise up and revolt and against the elites; and they are deceived by machinations against which they have no real defence.
Draft review notes #3
Imported from Menticulture
[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]
Draft review notes #2
Imported from Menticulture
[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]
So much for the pressure to conserve industry interests: capital ensures 'quality' and disseminates self-perpetuating ideological discourses, while the vernacular and the demotic voices are marginalised and reminded of their powerlessness.
Draft review notes #2
Imported from Menticulture
[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]
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Abstract code is a connection to parallel worlds, a poetic formula dealing with outer forces. Code is art, its action is subtile, effective, magic
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- Liberal Pranksters Hand Out Times Spoof - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
NY Times repsonse to hoax edition
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- Self portraits in cyberspace | Arts | The First Post
Robbie Cooper's portraits of gamers and their avatars
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- The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
An imagining of the New York Times from a better future
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- PressThink: Assignment Zero, Updated. With Initial Results...
Wired / PressThink Crowdsourced Journalism Experiment: Wikipedia vs Citizendium
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- Assignment Zero First Take: Wiki Innovators Rethink Openness
Wired / PressThink Crowdsourced Journalism Experiment: Wikipedia vs Citizendium
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- Structures of Participation in Digital Culture
the transformation of what it means to be a creator within a vast and growing reservoir of media, data, computational power, and communicative possibilities. We have few tools and models for understanding the power of databases, network representations, filtering techniques, digital rights management, and the other new architectures of agency and control. We have fewer accounts of how these new capacities transform our shared cultures, our understanding of them, and our capacities to act within them. Advancing that account is the goal of this volume
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- codedcultures.net
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- CBC Radio | Ideas | Features | How To Think About Science
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- >> Destroy All Rational Thought
an account of the Here to Go music and art festival created to celebrate the life and works of beat poets William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin
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- Military: US Army to Push X-Files Tech Development, Invade World of Warcraft
The US Army is ramping up the development of technology right out of the X-Files making science fiction into reality
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- CIA Director Hayden: Promoting an Effective Transition - Central Intelligence Agency
CIA: "Through expanded access, greater than what he had in his briefings as a candidate or as a Senator, he [Obama] will see the full range of capabilities we deploy for the United States"
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- Guy Fawkes' blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: Not Nihilistic, Realistic
Blears vs Bloggers
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- SitePoint Blogs >> 7 Places to Find the Code You Need
code search engines and snippet libraries
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- Code: Flickr Developer Blog >> The Shape of Alpha
Interesting map / place / shape data API from Flickr and their geodata
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- New evidence for homeopathy
An open assessment of the current evidence suggests that homeopathy is probably effective for a number of conditions including allergies, upper respiratory tract infections and 'flu, but more research is desperately needed
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- Granum :: Book information
The Internet is viewed as a tool, channel and forum enabling citizens to make an impact on social, cultural and political change. Civic empowerment through the Internet emerges in people's everyday life. Big politics is broken into pieces to become a multitude of small, more personalised political engagements. The Internet is a powerful medium for gathering coalitions and organising mobilisations of all kinds. It also transforms political styles and types of activities
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- Air Force Aims to 'Rewrite Laws of Cyberspace' | Danger Room from Wired.com
..." upcoming Air Force doctrine calls for the service to have the 'freedom to attack' online. A research program, launched in May, shoots for 'gain access' to 'any and all' computers"
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- #@*!!! Anonymous anger rampant on Internet - CNN.com
" the dark side of communication" ... "Kids don't realize that one post can destroy somebody's life forever"
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- Home - FOLDED-IN
"Folded-In is a 3D multiuser online videogame, which attempts a detournement of the representational space of YouTube, by transforming it into a gamespace, and by respectively turning the selected videos and the tags into game elements"
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- Nation Institute
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- http:// net art in space in london
HTTP is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art.
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 - mimeticon.net
interactive art
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 - Grand Text Auto » Digital Media, Games, and Open Access
bang on: "anti-publication... may serve some credentialing purposes, help universities assess tenure and promotion cases, but ends up restricting access to scholarly work"
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 - Web Video is So Last Year?or So Say Forbes and Time « NewTeeVee
the anti-UGC backlash from big media
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 - Thomas
transliteracy, notions of collaboration, and a context of Jenkins, McLuhan and Rheingold, as well as aboriginal ethnography and ancient Greek philosophy
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 - Switzerland Network Testing Tool | Electronic Frontier Foundation
snoop on snoopers
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 - Circuit Bending Documentary
cool geek hardware hacking
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 - From doctors to patients?.the transfer of power « Heroes Not Zombies
an end to paternalism - but I wonder if discourses about therapeutic autonomy are being used to disguise a neoconservative economic agenda
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 - Blind painter Esref Armagan - Boing Boing
He needs to feel that he is "inside" his painting-- in fact, when he is drawing a picture of the sea, he often wonders if he should wear a life jacket so as not drown
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 - /Message: The New Ordering Of Information: An Assault On The Edge
"Imagine the balls it takes to click the ?no collaboration at all thanks very much? button"
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 - Rock art marks transformations in traditional Peruvian societies
an odd article to appear in ohysorg's 'general scince' section, since it is about the anthropological and archaeological study of the stylistic and formal evolution of rock art
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 - Google & Yahoo Spent $1.36 Million in Lobbying Last Quarter
fascinating glimpse at the kinds of laws Google and Yahoo are lobbying for
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 - The Valve - A Literary Organ | Among the Disciplines: Literary Science?
if there?s more meaning in a work than its author intended, then we cannot just stop at the Critic?s assertion of a meaning. For Barthes, distancing the author means freeing up the reader from both the Author and the Critic
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 - YouTube - One Night with Jace
awesome
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 - apophenia: knol: content w/out context, collaboration, capital, or coruscation
"While I don't believe in the wisdom of a crowd of idiots, I do believe that collective creations tend to result in much better content than that which is created by an individual hermit"
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 - STANFORD Magazine: July/August 2008 > Features > Social Networking
There has to be a trade-off between the volume of connections and the quality
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 - Twitter's Business Model? Well, Ummmm...
parrallel worlds: audience participation and the language of 'monetising traffic'
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- http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/
put this in your feedreaders!
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 - World of Ends
Because the Internet is an agreement, it doesn't belong to any one person or group
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 - "The internet's output is data, but its product is freedom". Many-to-Many:
The core virtue of the internet was a huge increase in the technical freedom of all of its participating nodes, a freedom that has been translated into productive and intellectual freedoms for its users.
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 - A Low Impact Woodland Home
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 - We Tell Stories - 'The 21 Steps' by Charles Cumming
google-map-based mashup adaptation of 39 Steps
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 - Universal goes DRM-free - Boing Boing
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 - Summary of Findings: Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations
People who rely on the internet as their main news source express relatively unfavorable opinions of mainstream news sources and are among the most critical of press performance
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 - BBC NEWS | Technology | State of Play: Violence and video games
BBC on videogames is never a pretty sight. Here's some more bollocks
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 - if:book: "the bookish character of books": how google's romanticism falls short
Google's ambition to organizing the world's books and making them universally accessible and useful is being carried out in a hasty, slipshod manner, leading to a serious deficit in quality
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 - Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net
Our visions of the landscape can now be filtered through a digital interface. Collectively these visions form a snapshot of the townscape and the personal topographies of the auteurs
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 - E
elit links
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 - Crisis of Value and the Ethical Economy - P2P Foundation
the ?creative economy? of the urban music, arts and fashion scenes, which is growing in importance as a productive externality for the creative industries proper, is not primarily motivated by monetary incentives
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 - if:book: six blind men and an elephant
This idea of "whole books" as rungs on a ladder toward knowing something. Books are a kind of conceptual architecture that, until recently, has been distinctly absent on the Web
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 - Waggish: Grondin on Gadamer
Writing is self-alienation. Overcoming it, reading the text, is thus the highest task of understanding
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 - Spamgraffiti | Online installations created from spam
spam art
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 - Blogging Resources / Participatory Media Literacy
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 - things magazine: an online journal about objects and meanings
cassette nostalgia = "yet another way of extracting the lingering analogue bits of our lives"
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 - Stuart Moulthrop: Essays
essays on hypertext, literacy, game, play, etc
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 - SeeqPod Playable Search - Find. Discover. Watch. Listen. Share.
it must be awesome cos I found a moog version of Smells Like Teen Spirit
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 - drawball.com
interactive social drawing thing
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 - Communication Theorists Enter Hardware and Software Studies at WRT: Writer Response Theory
advancements in technology will increase qualitative and biological indicators of immersion
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 - YouTube - Content Aware Image Resizing
cool image resizing tool
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 - Free Speech Sometimes Trumps Copyright
legal argument that copyright inhibits freedom of speech
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 - Mission Stencil Story - a set on Flickr
"an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure story that takes place on the sidewalks of the Mission district in San Francisco"
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 - CONELRAD | DAISY VIDEO
The Daisy Video - political campaign add with "a little child innocently counting juxtaposed with an adult military countdown"
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 - Reverse Geocoder for Google Maps API Documentation
Reverse Geocoding is the inverse relationship where each geographical coordinate is mapped to the nearest known address
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- Is modern art a left-wing conspiracy? | spiked
blase and uncritical description of postmodern art as apolitical
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- O'Reilly Radar > Pipes and Filters for the Internet
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- Slashdot | University Professor Chastised For Using Tor
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- Music as torture/Music as weapon
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- Boing Boing: Pentagon Sued Over Milblog-Monitoring
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- BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital treasure hunt gets winner
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- Warner Music announces Last.fm deal
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- Infinite Loop: RIAA to Jobs: Thanks for the offer to license FairPlay
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- Wired: AP Technology and Business News from the Outside World on Wired.com
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- Slashdot | To Media Companies, BitTorrent Implies Guilt
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- The American Spectator
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- Boing Boing: Massive cache of kittah pictures
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- Change.org
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- Change.org: Social Network For Social Activism
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- networked_performance: lifelogging
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- Video games train the visual system
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- Lifeblogging: Is a virtual brain good for the real one?
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- Pew Internet: Tagging
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- Slashdot | A Wikipedia WIthout Graffiti
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- Wooster Collective: Some Thoughts on Last Week in Boston
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- e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Serious Games Discussion on what to call the "interactive part" of a serious game and the fate of competing realities
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- Art MoCo: "Delete! - Delettering the Public Space"
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- Wired News: The Wii Is a Plastic Box of Death
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- Stardust Results Challenge Scientists Planetary News | The Planetary Society
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- calcium aluminum inclusions (CAI)
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- Adobe Acrobat JavaScript Execution Bug is a Huge Security Issue - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
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- networked_performance: Organized Networks:
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- Slashdot | UK Teachers Say Censor The Internet
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- Wikipedia Is a Hit in China As Ban Is Lifted - WSJ.com
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- Slashdot | Internet Only 1% Porn
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- Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~
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- The Road to the Semantic Web
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- BBC NEWS | Politics | No 10 launches online petitions
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- Wired News: Why No Lester Bangs of Gaming?
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- Amazon: Listmania! - View List "New Media: Student Essentials Vol 1"
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- Amazon: Listmania! - View List "Ludology, literary game theory"
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- Table of Contents - Steal This Wiki
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- mtvU.com
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- Wired News: Net: a Political Free-for-All
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- Wired News: Games Fight the Good Fight
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- Wired News: Brain Teasers
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- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Blogger up for non-fiction award
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- Boing Boing: DRM is Killing Music parody of "Home Taping is Killing Music"
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- we make money not art: Russian software developer beats pirate in boxing ring
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- Slashdot | Algorithmic Political-Media-Mashup Vodcast
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- The New Wisdom of the Web - Next Frontiers - MSNBC.com
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- BBC NEWS | Technology | Wikipedia study 'fatally flawed'
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- Boing Boing: Report: MySpace banned in UAE, like BoingBoing, presumably with SmartFilter
Tags: uae censorship myspace
- Wonderland: Burn The House Down
Tags: game design
- Boing Boing: Melbourne's graffiti scene killed by Commonwealth Games
Tags: graffiti streetart censorship australia
- A portrait of the blogger as a young plagiarist | Salon.com
Tags: blogging politics msm
- MIX 06: Mashing Up Web 2.0 and Live Software (web2.wsj2.com)
Tags: web2.0 mashup
- Wired News: Island Wisdom, Coded in Java
Tags: CMC social programming design
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- Slashdot | Creative Commons License Upheld by Dutch Court
Tags: creative-commons law holland
- Boing Boing: UK Open University opens its courseware
Tags: e-learning access creative-commons
- ipod_yocto.jpg on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Tags: apple spoof
- iPlant Upgrades to 2 Terabytes With WhiteTooth - Technology - Avant News
Tags: spoof
- UUUHHHGGG-rrrrRRR!: HHHurr RRRRRRRR nhhhh.
Tags: blogging spoof
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Disabled users to test websites
Tags: web-design accessibility
- Boing Boing: DRM shortens iPod battery life
Tags: DRM
- Boing Boing: Billboard war in Cuba
Tags: advertising politics propaganda billboard war
- Boing Boing: Yale Access to Knowledge Treaty, Apr 21-23
Tags: digital culture IP copyright access
- Boing Boing: War stories needed for UK review of "Intellectual Property" law
Tags: copyright activism IP law UK
- insect art festival
Tags: art insect
- Boing Boing: Salon posts archive of Abu Ghraib photos, videos, reports
Tags: abu-ghraib photography
- we make money not art: Neterotopia
Tags: art activism heterotopia advertising
- Slashdot | Google Wins a Court Battle
Tags: google law copyright
- Recommended PHP reading list
Tags: PHP programming resource
- Slashdot | Nineteen Registrars Decry ICANN Arrangement
Tags: internet ICANN market
- Wired News:
Tags: mediation HCI
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- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | BBC's wildlife archives released
Tags: creative-commons open access video archive resource
- Boing Boing: AOL: Screw you, we're taxing email anyway
Tags: aol yahoo email tax market
- la Molleindustria - political videogames
Tags: game politics activism
- LawGeek: New Jersey Assemblyman introduced bill to force online identification
Tags: ID internet law anonymity privacy
- Boing Boing: NJ Assemblyman introduces bill to force online identification
Tags: ID anonymity privacy internet law
- Open Season On Open Source?
Tags: OSS market hacker-ethic
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2006-01-27T11:09:09Z]
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- The future of HTML, Part 2: XHTML 2.0
Tags: web-structure xhtml standards
- we make money not art: Artgames. Part I
Tags: art game
- Congress catching on to the value of blogs | CNET News.com
Tags: blogging politics first-person-media
- NET STOCKS: Google's Action Makes A Mockery Of Its Values
Tags: google censorship china
Richard Dawkins for president of the world
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Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2006-01-04T08:14:14Z]
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- Slashdot | Interactive Campaigning ala Wiki
Tags: wiki politics open campaign
- New Scientist Breaking News - Activists hijack public CCTV signal
Tags: surveillance
- Clickable Culture - Hidden Virtual-World Prison Revealed
Tags: internet culture virtual sociology
- Boing Boing: Report: Outspoken Chinese blogger censored by Microsoft
Tags: china censorship microsoft
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2005-12-28T12:45:54Z]
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- Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Tags: video usability web
- Kirkville - Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right?
Tags: news media online design
- Video crooks come in from the cold | Top stories | Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (28-12-2005)
Tags: copyright piracy law
- The coming of age of citizen media from Guardian Unlimited: News blog
Tags: first-person-media
- BBC NEWS | Technology | New tune for digital music in 2006
Tags: music DRM
- The Ghosts of Internet Time
Tags: internet culture
- World Wide Help: Remembrance Week - 26th December, 2005 - 1st January, 2006
Tags: media-spectacle disaster web culture
- MiamiHerald.com | 12/26/2005 | Fear destroys what bin Laden could not
Tags: surveillance politics democracy law
- DevilDucky - Bendy Woman
Tags: video bendy woman
- Wired News: Lyrics Dustup Ends in Apology
Tags: copyright law music
- tiny nibbles - violet blue
Tags: blog podcast sex culture
- Saudi telecom stops text vote for Arab talent show - Yahoo! News
Tags: globalisation culture-clash ideology
- welcome to [unwired.cc]
Tags: mobile technology closed-shop
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- Did the US military use chemical weapons in Iraq? | csmonitor.com
Tags: first-person-media
- Daily Kos: US Army Admits Use of White Phosphorus as Weapon
Tags: politics first-person-media
- BBC NEWS | Middle East | US used white phosphorus in Iraq
Tags: politics first-person-media
- When murder hits the blogosphere - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
Tags: internet culture first-person-media
- The MySpace Generation
Tags: internet culture
- Root servers: The real Net power | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
Tags: internet culture
- rexblog.com: Rex Hammock's Weblog
Tags: wiki quality social
- SuperBowl Commercials @ Superbowl-Info.com
Tags: media-spectacle
- TV Ad
Tags: media-spectacle
- Z39.50 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tags: Z39.50 demystification library query format biblipedia
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- NPR : Paying Real Money to Win Online Games
Tags: game culture
- Wired 13.12: Fear, Inc.
Tags: terrorism technology commodification
- Machinima.com:
Tags: movie politics
- Orisinal : Morning Sunshine
Tags: game animation
- Wired News: Tags Sort Out Music Mess
Tags: tags social demystification
- Full-time freelancing: 10 things learned in 180 days ~ Authentic Boredom
Tags: freelance tips
- Wired News: Another Blow to E-Voting Company
Tags: democracy e-voting
- Gridskipper - Gridskipper#the-urbs-2005-urban-blogging-awards-nominations-continue-139383
Tags: urban blogging
- Boing Boing: RIAA targets mashups
Tags: copyright mashup law DRM
- Pardon Me, but the Art Is Mouthing Off - New York Times
Tags: art media digital
- Boing Boing: Sony CD spyware installs and can run permanently, even if you click "Decline"
Tags: commerce DRM law
- Boing Boing: Warners censors mashup album, fight back!
Tags: copyright law mashup
- David's Journal: Current
Tags: riaa copyright law
- Investing - Anime Explosion: It's Profitmon! - FORTUNE - Page
Tags: film media video remix mashup remediation
- Print Story
Tags: web2.0 innovation
- Open source licensing, Part 2: Academic v. reciprocal
Tags: OSS law
- The Smaller Picture : Spider
Tags: art collaboration social emergence
