Affective labour on social networking sites

The discussion currently taking place on the cultstud list about self-branding on social networking sites bears interesting relation to the similar spate of posts on fibreculture recently. Both developed out of efforts on the part of some members to develop relevant discussion groups on Facebook, and my initial response has been to wonder why lists [...]

Quotes of the week

Hmm, I’d like to start a new Friday series for all of you who spend the week reading, largely on your own, for whatever work you’re doing. Wouldn’t it be nice to share with others the most interesting idea you encountered? Would it help mark the end of a long week to remember what you [...]

Geert Lovink interviews Andrew Ross

“I’d like to see new media tacticians think more about sustainable income models for everyone rather than focus primarily on the livelihoods of creatives or high-skill knowledge workers.” Read more here.

Quotes I can’t fit in my review, contd.

Email occupies a paradoxical relation to space… marking distance as both necessary and irrelevant; dispatch and destination must be noncoterminous, but the distance between termini must be more virtual than actual. (86) While simulating a network of determinate, point-to-point contact, email also sets up a social space that is more distributive than connective. (87) To [...]

Quotes I can’t fit in my review

The situation of cyberspace as a real space, mapped in relational terms, is perhaps clearest in instances where the networks of communication explicitly relate to the networks of everyday life. With a “buddy list” or AOL Instant Message, for example, the network of computers reinforces the idea that at the same moment that I am [...]

Networky

Rosalind Gill has a new report on new media labour available for free download at the Institute of Network Cultures website. Given the nature of the discussions taking place here over the last few days, it might be of interest to some of you. The report is only a brief introduction, and it mostly focuses [...]

Stereotypes

To become dÃ©cor, to become ambiance, to become setting, to become stereotype, is not necessarily to be out of the picture. On the contrary: a living stereotype can always historicize, as well as appear in, the media image of any event. It stubbornly refers to the social conditions of its own appearance in space, and [...]

On not dating

Further to last week’s post (which, given that he quoted from the same article in his keynote address on Friday, made me wonder whether Sir Ken might have been reading this blog), some more thoughts on generational accounts of online culture. First up, Danah Boyd on the perils of archived romance: ‘While i’m all down [...]

Small steps

I’ve been back in Brisbane since Saturday and I’m having trouble adjusting. My mind and my heart are still back in the UK, and my body, while very much here, is aching and complaining about the lack of sleep on the flights home. I’ve been too tired and fluey to go out and walk around [...]

Politics

‘Agamben reconceives the very notion of the political. In so doing, he develops an understanding of the political that equates neither to a purely linguistic relation nor to grounded intervention in specific social or institutional contexts. And it is primarily for this reason, I would suggest, that his work is proving so important for a [...]

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