02 November 2006
"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti
an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.
30 October 2006
Planned Obsolescence
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a media teacher and is spearheading an important online project for media scholars, Media Commons. Her blog has many teaching resources and summaries of sessions at the recent Flow TV Conference.
23 October 2006
DIY Media Tools - powered by FeedBurner
lots of how-to suggestions for web 2.0, from perspective of user
21 October 2006
Tracking Down Educators that Use Photo Sharing (flickr) | Teaching Hacks.com
aiding social networking and sharing of resources for using photography in education
18 October 2006
Bruno Latour: ARTICLES
most of these works are in English and have full text version online
17 October 2006
PhD Project: Vernacular Creativity and New Media at creativity/machine
abstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought
TRANSFORMATIONS
"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"
15 October 2006
CiteULike: A free online service to organise your academic papers
by 46 othersCiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library.
The Learning Circuits Blog: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?
This question prompted a large round of comments, roundups, later reflections.
11 October 2006
what to think about so many lurkers
by 2 othersmore lurkers than online writers--do you need to worry about it?
09 October 2006
About radical reference | Radical Reference
a service provided by volunteer library workers from all over the United States to assist demonstrators and activists
05 October 2006
DIY Media Weblog
new blog as of Sept 06, good authors; participatory democracy in Internet communications
Networked Public Culture
theses for a proposed book on this topic, to which readers are invited to contribute, with comments included in "symposia" after each chapter, first announcement. Later entries include chapter contributors, topics, comments.
Morph: We Imagine Archives
Media Center blog about technology and narrative; thoughtful writing; group of writers take on a specific topic related to narrative and communication weekly
virtualpolitik
"A blog about digital rhetoric that asks the burning questions about electronic bureaucracy and institutional subversion on the Internet." Well-written, points to developments in the arts and on the web that otherwise might go unnoticed.
Welcome to convergence culture Henry Jenkins
opening chapter of Jenkins' new book, "Convergence Culture"
03 October 2006
Collectivate.net -- Distributed Aesthetics
expanded discussion of a workshop on this topic. See "theses" by Munster and Lovink
Dada: Distributed Aesthetics Workshop - Institute of Network Cultures
wiki from the workshop, see also essay by Munster and Lovink
"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink
We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.
Overview of a Distributed Aesthetics workshop
considering a new kind of network or network-assisted art, such as Internet or cell phone facilitated performances, on or offline; using locative media; Creative Commons, etc. An older idea was Internet Art.
net critique ยป Interview with Sole 24 Ore: Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths
social software's potential shaping of the Internet, journalism, business--or not
01 October 2006
Pew Internet: Future of the Internet
well worth downloading and printing the 104 pp PDF document; the list of contributors alone is worth following up on; especially interesting on the inequalities and possibilities for repression
21 September 2006
Monkey Bites
readers' votes on best and worst web 2.0 sites, sept 06
