current uses of social media platforms

recent terror attacks in Mumbai

a twitter feed

 

more thoughts on Latour and articulations

Think of reverse engineering, modding and the mashup as the concretized ‘capture’ of experience/knowledge in the patterns of information. And yet, these patterns are not ossified like discourse, ideology, or commodities. You might call them articulations (or assemblages) that are destined for further elaboration and unravelling. Wark combines a Deleuzian and Marxist approaches to these themes in his Hacker Manifesto.

 

on bricolage, subversion and articulation (this latter in the sense of Latour)

read about the latest Yes Men prank – and watch a video report on it

 

connected II

nostalgia for disconnectedness? 

 

connected

 

Virtual Halloween

 

participatory culture or interpellation of consumer creativity?

Finding a Gold Mine in Digital Ditties

“With so many victories, though, Joel Levinson’s fame may start to work against him. But so far, the companies have not been put off by his quasi-professional background.” — it is interesting, and disturbing, that a ‘user content generator’ may be expected, to remain a precarious, immaterial laborer with limited material gains.

 

Tsing writes against totalizing, reductive senses of “the global”

 

Second SL Meeting: Student-Led Explorations

 

 

 

First Second Life Class Meeting

we met at Jason’s place and discussed the week’s reading

Jason’s voice chat was disabled, which may have been a good thing…

perhaps students had more ‘voice’ when the instructor’s was silenced

for those whose voice chat was working, we sometimes heard more than we should have… like aural evidence of multitasking

does anyone remember where we went after our discussion? We visited a holodeck, but also this place…?

 

From the holodeck: