Category Archives: network

Locative Art on the Web

This website provides a nice list of relatively recent web-based locative art.  Some of the links don’t exactly work, but others do and that’s really what matters.  

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EFF: Breaking News

Grokster took a dump this week in the high court.  The cultural forces are indeed clashing.  While corporations are capitalizing on the "free flow" of information and selling it back to us as liberatory, they are making every effort to … Continue reading

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Culture and Technology

Friedrich Kittler argues that "culture cannot be had without technology, and technology cannot be had without culture" ("The Perspective of Print").  This seems like a fairly simply idea, but Kittler makes it complex.  What he’s trying to get at here … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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