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PUBLIC MARKS with tags digitalculture & internet

October 2006

Flicker

by jlesage & 4 others
major site for alternative experimental film/video; "Here you will find films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media info

Virtual Society? Projects

by jlesage
"the social science of electronic technologies"; links to major projects on Internet research

Marie-Laure Ryan

by jlesage
homepage of scholar with many of her essays on narrative theory and electronic textuality available in full text form.

Theorizing in real time: hyperaesthetics for the technoculture

by jlesage
"As bad as bad media aesthetics are when static, they will worsen as they become interactive. It is not enough to struggle towards hypermedia: we need to develop a hyperaesthetic."

virtualpolitik: Who Will Be Voted Off the Island?

by jlesage
a review of Jenkins' "Convergence Culture" that covers some of the main topics in current New Media scholarship

net critique » Interview with Alan Liu

by jlesage
Liu is author of "The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information"

Collectivate.net -- Distributed Aesthetics

by jlesage
expanded discussion of a workshop on this topic. See "theses" by Munster and Lovink

net critique » Interview with Sole 24 Ore: Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths

by jlesage
social software's potential shaping of the Internet, journalism, business--or not

course outline on space, place, and landscape in contemporary art

by jlesage
You will need to cut and paste URLs into your browser, but there is much here to followup on in terms of bibliography and links.

Martin Irvine, Georgetown University

by jlesage
useful website of communication, culture, and technology professor; many links to courses,lectures, slideshows and essays on art, visual culture, media theory

September 2006

World Wikia - World Wikia

by jlesage & 1 other
new developments in wikis, an open source travel guide that users can edit. Will it rival the megasite, Lonely Planet?

August 2006

July 2006

Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | What is the 1% rule?

by jlesage & 1 other
"if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it."

cinematicfilm experimental film video art

by jlesage & 1 other
experimental database on the web of experimental film & video art

Caterina.net: Metrics, registered users and social ecosystems

by jlesage
good discussion of the difference in user expectations of various social software sites