Entries from May 2005
Anarchy and Copyright Law
I finally got around to reading Siva Vaidhyanathan’s The Anarchist in the Library (visit his blog here). What a fantastic read. As I understand it, he puts Laurence Lessig into overdrive. He starts with the problem of information flows and the laws that prohibit them and goes to fantastic places including the vulgar manifestations of […]
Nor’easter
I just moved to Boston from Los Angeles to take a job at Emerson College. When I told people in California that I was moving east, they looked at me as if I was betraying the holy right of paradise - as if I was somehow turning my back on my good fortune. "You don’t […]
Categories: boston
Google is the face of terrorism
University presses are in the business of distributing information, right? Well then why are they trying to stop what promises to be the most impressive development in scholarship since the printing press?
Is Google really the bad guy here?
Link: Scholarly publishers protest Google’s online library project.
Categories: copyright
Malls as Entertainment
In Columbus, Ohio, Gordon Group Holdings is developing a hybrid mall / internet space called Epicenter. This space, scheduled to open in 2006 at the Polaris Fashion Place, will combine the convenience of online shopping with the consumer desire to feel, touch and try on. It looks like a mall, but something is different. In […]
Categories: Malls
post-materialism
I came across a reference today that put me on edge: post-materialism. It’s from a book by Pippa Norris called Digital Divide (2001). Norris’ hypothesis, as told by Barney, is that, "given the demographic profile of internet users (affluent, educated, and young), we might expect that the culture of internet users is particularly postmaterialist in […]
Categories: network
Networked Individualism
In Darin Barney’s book The Network Society, he breaks the topic into five chapters: network society, network technology, network economy, network politics, and network identity. Each chapter reads like a lit review of sorts, providing a useful, but rather dry overview of the topic. He relies quite heavily on Castells, so much so that it […]
Categories: network
Mediated Urbanism
What is the connection between new media and urban design in the twentieth century? How have the promises of shape shifting media in fact shifted the shapes of urban areas? Likewise, the culture of cities shapes the media designed to connect and broadcast the culture. This book I’m working on will find the points […]
Categories: network
