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Urban Tribes
In similar vein to Richard Florida’s influential, but problematic The Rise of the Creative Class, journalist Ethan Watters’ work of pop sociology Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment looks interesting. By the sounds of it, 2 parts Maffesoli and 3 parts Copeland. Here’s the Publishers’ Weekly blurb:
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Architecture, Modernism, and Postmodernism
Gary has been thinking about Federation Square in connection with his long running concerns about the modern and postmodern in visual and urban cultures. I posted a pretty long comment to his post, and thought I’d repeat it here as it is very much my kind of discussion. [Federation Square] is monumental and spectacular –…
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Future Applications Lab
Via my site stats I found the website of lalya gaye at the Future Applications Lab, Viktoria Institute, Sweden. Lalya is one of the researchers working on the sonic city project I mentioned a while back, and also the intriguing picture this project: “Picture this!” explores the future of photography. The mechanical and optical constraints…
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MediaCon
Lawrence Lessig reports: Mark Cooper, of the Consumer Federation of America has published a new book, Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age. The book will be can be purchased at Amazon (link to come), or it can be downloaded for free (pdf) under a Creative Commons license. Also via Lessigblog – The…
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Ubicomp 2003
anne galloway [purse lip square jaw] is posting “live” from Ubicomp 2003. Making us all jealous, but sharing lots of interesting stuff with us as well.
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New Publication
This new book from MIT press looks like just the ticket: New Media, 1740-1915 (Media in Transition), edited by Lisa Gitelman, Geoffrey B. Pingree, and Edward Barrett. Blurb: Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today’s new media. Examining a…
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Digital Music Symposium
I will be at this with bells on: The QUT Faculties of Law, Creative Industries & Information Technology are presenting a FREE seminar on Wednesday 26 November which will investigate the current issues facing the digital distribution of music. Keynote Speaker Fred von Lohmann is a Senior staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), specialising…
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Another passing
NYU professor and media scholar Neil Postman has died at 72.
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Henry Jenkins articles
What a legend Henry Jenkins is for posting his works in progress and a whole heap of past articles besides online – talk about walking the open source walk. Here are two I found to be very useful for planning my PhD project on “amateur” production and new media: Interactive Audiences? The ‘Collective Intelligence’ of…
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electronic book review
Just came across the online journal electronic book review. Some very interesting editorial content, essays and articles on “techno capitalism” and “electro poetics”, including some work by not-so-lightweight theorists, e.g. Mark Poster.