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Category Archives: web 2.0
Metageography of the Internet
An article of mine, entitled “The Metageography of the Internet: Mapping from Web 1.0 to 2.0″ was just published in Mediengeographie: Theorie – Analyse – Diskussion. It’s an amazing collection, with articles from Bruno Latour, Paul Virilio, Lev Manovich, Saskia … Continue reading
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Pick-Your-Own Internet
It’s fall in New England. That means farms all over the region are opening their doors to locals and tourists alike to pick over their crops so that they might have that unique New England experience of working for their … Continue reading
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Where is the Where?
I just got back from the O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, CA this morning. As someone who attends mostly academic conferences, it was both refreshing and disturbing to spend two days with this group. Refreshing because the group was … Continue reading
Posted in cities, geography, mediated urbanism, mobility, net-locality, placeofmedia, web 2.0
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Urban Informatics
A special issue of Information, Communication and Society just hit the stands and it’s worth a mention here. Yeah, yeah, I have an article in it, but more importantly, it’s a fantastic collection of work on the topic of “Urban … Continue reading
Anti Web 2.0 Manifesto
Just came across Keen’s manifesto against Web 2.0. There’s something to be said for this counter argument. Instead of delving into a critique of them, I’m just going to let them speak for themselves. THE ANTI WEB 2.0 MANIFESTO (Adorno-for-idiots) … Continue reading
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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Data Detritus
In most instances of online navigation, we retain a reasonable expectation of privacy. Yet it is clear that every move, every written thought, conversation, or search string, is transformed into data and stored somewhere. In essence, every thing we do … Continue reading
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Perceptions of Privacy
I’ve been thinking about how the average web user formulates their conception of privacy. A lot of people have very personal conversations in "public" online spaces, such as chat rooms and in sites like Myspace, et. al. Do they have … Continue reading
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Networked Proximity – Section 3
This post on I d e a n t is worth reading. Ulises Mejias has posted another section of his dissertation on networked proximity. His concerns are very close to mine (I’m thrilled that he’ll be coming to Emerson to … Continue reading
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Networked Place
This essay, written by Kazys Varnelis and Anne Friedberg, is an introductory statement on the change role of place in network culture. They break the work up into six sections: place (simultaneous spaces), mobile place (the rise of the tele-cocoon), … Continue reading
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