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unAustralia (Call for Papers)
unAustralia: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference, Canberra, 6-8 December, 2006. If things are ‘un-Australian’ it must be because they come from UNAUSTRALIA. Where is it? Who lives there? How does it come to be? What is its past and what is its future? While raising some very local questions of critique and desire,…
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the death and life of a great urban crusader
Sad news via Molly Steenson. Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and several other books to which Floridean “creative cities” arguments owe a lot more than you’d think, has died at 89. The NY Times has a long and thoughtful piece about her life and work.
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more video-sharing thingies
Online editing, rich ‘folksonomy’ and community-building features would seem to be essential components of whatever is going to be the ‘flickr of video’, i.e. the default destination for video ‘sharing’. (That is, if there will be such a thing – remembering the very specific circumstances of flickr’s emergence, which have a lot to do with…
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A is for Apple
In the beginning, there was an apple from the teacher… You could use it in the kitchen… Eventually even Mom could join in… Then it grew so small you could take it out into the world, where you were now more liberated, individual and same-yet-different than ever before. If you like this stuff, the Mac…
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Seminar: The Gendered Ties that Bind
The Gendered Ties That Bind the ‘New Global Governance’ to the ‘New Information Economy’ Associate Professor Lisa McLaughlin CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES Thursday 20th April, 2.00-3.30pm CCCS Seminar Room, Level 4, Forgan Smith Building, University of Queensland St Lucia Campus As the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) illustrates,…
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The C word(s)
A great post from Anne on the relations between and the material contexts of design practice, criticism and critique (and critical thinking – not the same thing as critique, as I keep saying until I’m blue in the face). It ends with this elegant provocation: And while we’re at it, how do ‘by-and-for the people’…
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slower, softer
Let me just frame this by saying that I am at the business end of trying to construct a doctoral thesis on the implications for cultural citizenship of vernacular creativity in “new media” contexts. I use radically mixed methods and my concept maps always start with ‘worms-eye’ views. I try to live up to the…
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A Study of Interestingness and Note Spamming
Interesting indeed. You have to suspect that it was a case of any excuse for a geeky nude-up, though.
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JumpCut
JumpCut is another new player in the “creative online community” business – the idea is to not only upload, share, and discuss, but also edit, collaborate and remix images and video online. You can automatically import sets of images from flickr, too. After having a quick play around with the editing interface, it seems pretty…
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tilt-shift
Josh told me about the photoshop fake tilt-shift technique, so I had to try to it over the weekend. I got kind of addicted for a day or so, and this is one of the results.