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Category Archives: place
Urban Spectator
Here’s the cover of my book. It’s finally going to come out, even though it’s still months away. The book looks at something I call possessive spectatorship in the American city, a way of looking that doubles as a kind … Continue reading
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Urban Communication Meeting
So I’m down in DC this weekend, not for the cherry blossom festival (although the cherry blossoms are quite nice), but for a board meeting of the Urban Communications Foundation (UCF). We’re meeting today primarily to discuss the nature of … Continue reading
The Evolving Concept of Network Locality
Over the last few days, I’ve refined my thoughts on the concept of network locality. Up until this time, I’ve been thinking about how geographical space functions within the connectivity enabled by digital networks. But as I pursued this idea, … Continue reading
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Mobile Places
I’ve had this question running through my head for some time now: what’s the connection between mobile computing (i.e. cell phones, PDAs, GPS, etc.) and local computing (neighborhood networking, digital civic forums, etc.)? On first blush, these are entirely separate … Continue reading
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Persistence of Presence (Twitter)
Film is based on an illusion of mobility. ‘Persistence of Vision’ is the way a number of still frames, when moving very quickly through a machine and separated by a black bar, creates the impression of movement. Cinematic movement is … Continue reading
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