Mobile Media 2007
I promised to blog about last week’s conference, but in doing so I won’t be quite as comprehensive as Axel, so you should go there if you want specifics on lots of the papers. There are a couple more reports here too; plus hopefully Larissa will share her flickr account details with me soon, given [...]
Communicating nomadism
A key objective of Mark Nunes’ Cyberspaces of Everyday Life is to stipulate that cyberspace is heteromorphic. Drawing on Lefebvre, he wants to demonstrate that these “virtual topographies do not coordinate into an overall system, but rather interpenetrate each other, producing spaces in conflict” (xxvi). For instance, in one passage he writes:
As a space of [...]
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 the extent [...]
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 [...]
For Ethnography
I’m heading to Sydney this morning to speak at this conference at UTS tomorrow. It’s a chance to hear some of the work Catherine and I have been doing on our book if you have time to come along - we’d appreciate some feedback during these early stages. We’re also on in the last session [...]
When technosexuals grow up…
…they buy a Sony Ericsson Walkman phone (?)
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 for [...]
Cultural Studies: Generations
So aside from all the important things like wishing my Dad Happy Birthday and getting my haircut today I’m currently arranging hotels and train transfers while working on the lecture I’m giving at the University of Tampere next week. It’s on generationalism and cultural studies, and I’ll base it on arguments I make in my [...]
NB
Given its lingering final questions - “where can I find you all? And where will I ever find the energy to keep fighting?” - I’m pleased to say that since my last post I have been a little overwhelmed by beautiful people revealing themselves, and this has been giving me plenty of momentum to keep [...]
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