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fieldwork finished
Tonight I wrapped up my Flickr interviews, which were the last bits of fieldwork for my PhD. I could have kept talking to people forever, because the whole process has been so rich and productive and interesting, and, well, fun, but you have to stop somewhere. I’m going to be saying this many more times…
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Snap-Shot-City
Interesting looking creative/locative/game project: Snap-Shot-City – A world wide urban photographic treasure hunt – Anyone, anywhere in the world, can play! Snap-Shot-City is an opportunity to participate in the global community by really experiencing the place where you live, with the people you share it with. Become an artist for a day and interpret a…
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‘we are beseiged because the world is watching’
Thanks to Ben, I just found From Beirut to…those who love us. While I am trying not to drip ineffectual tears on my keyboard, I can’t recommend highly enough that you go watch it (BIG Quicktime file). Here’s the background: This video letter was made on July 21, 2006 at the studios of Beirut DC,…
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uses of blogs hits the stands
Uses of Blogs, an anthology of scholarly essays (include one by me on higher ed classroom blogging) edited by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs, is now officially available. Blurb: As the first edited collection of scholarly articles on blogging by experts and practitioners in a wide range of fields, Uses of Blogs offers a broad…
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please update your links to creativitymachine.net
Dear reader, Forgive the boring tech update, but… If your blogroll or newsfeed is still pointing to hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~burgess, please update it to https://creativitymachine.net (blog) or https://creativitymachine.net/feed (RSS feed), cos one day not too far in the future I’ll be deleting everything from the hypertext server, including the .htaccess redirect that is automagically making it look…
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some new developments in web video
Caught in my tech news net over the last week: Via Boing Boing, another new ‘meta’ service launches into public beta: Dabble, a site that makes it possible to search, recommend, rate, discuss and be sociable about video hosted anywhere on the the net, has come out of private beta and launched for public use.…
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on flickr as a game environment
I have a section in my chapter on Flickr about the structure of the network as an ‘architecture of participation’, where I go through the various levels of engagement that are possible or invited (from exploring to uploading to commenting to participating in group ‘tasks’ and learning communities, and so on). I know I’m not…
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sad news from the LSE
Via various email lists this morning: ROGER SILVERSTONE 15 JUNE 1945 – 16 JULY 2006 Convenor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE The faculty, staff and students mourn the sudden passing of Roger Silverstone, who died peacefully on 16 July surrounded by his family. Roger had undergone corrective surgery last week but died of complications…
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Portrait of a Textile Worker
Art quilt project by Terese Agnew: Portrait of a Textile Worker makes one person among millions of unseen workers visible. Her image was constructed with thirty thousand clothing labels stitched together over two years. The idea came from a simple observation. One day while shopping in a department store I noticed huge signs everywhere —…
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readings in cultural citizenship and popular culture
A couple of things I’ve read this morning: In a special issue of IJCS on ‘The New Economy, Creativity and Consumption’ William Uricchio compares the relationships between creativity (mainly viewed as work within or work that benefits the ‘creative industries’) and cultural citizenship in the US and Europe: Creative activity – and, by implication, the…