Archive for the ‘art’ Category
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Ta-da. I've finally submitted the field definitions for my Comprehensive exams. Here they are. Comments welcome; it helps. I'm writing the Philosophy of Technology exam in October, and the Theorizing Participatory Media exams in December February 2010, during the Olympics.
1. A History of the Philosophy of Science and Technology
Western philosophical ...
Posted in PhD studies, SCOT, STS, art, comprehensive exams, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture industries, political economy, sociology of art, technology, theory | No Comments »
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
I'm going to call it now - Facebook has officially jumped the shark.
This comes with apologies to those who thought FB died hours ago, when it made another attack-user-privacy-or-otherwise-degrade-user-happiness move. And gosh darnit, if this isn't the type of action the FB population was just starting to get used to.
This ...
Posted in SNS, art, culture & society, internet, mobile, social networks, theory | No Comments »
Monday, April 7th, 2008
In my role at MUSE3 I'm coordinating a couple of related mobile technology projects in Whistler and Vancouver's Downtown East Side that lend themselves well to the "Tale of Two Cities" theme. While there are some interesting parallels between the Dickens novel of the same name and these two contemporary ...
Posted in DTES, Fearless City, Mobile Muse, Whistler, art, culture & society, mobile | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I was recently asked by the Songwriters' Association of Canada (SAC) to submit a briefing on why file sharing is inevitable, and why a levy system for ISPs makes sense. (The SAC is in the process of submitting a proposal along these lines to the Canadian government, in light of ...
Posted in P2P, appropriation, art, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, file sharing, internet, law, open source, policy, social web, technology, theory | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
So I'm diving straight into my comprehensives now. I'm building lists and checking them twice (and more). While building these reading lists is in many ways a very personal journey, I've decided to blog about the process so that I might get feedback from unexpected locales, harnessing the "wisdom of ...
Posted in 4s, Actor network theory, PhD studies, SCOT, STS, appropriation, art, blogs, comprehensive exams, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, fandom, internet, online communities, open source, political economy, social bookmarking, social networks, social web, sociology of art, taste, technology, theory, wikia | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
I hope I haven't used this Roxy Music song as a post title before...
While assembling my upcoming conference papers, I've been twiddling with this blog on the side in lieu of regular updates (well, alright, I've also been focused on the dupobs release schedule - you can listen to ...
Posted in art, blogs, critical constructivism, culture & society, events, marketing, music | No Comments »
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Heya. I am presenting in a panel at AOIR this year (the title of my presentation/paper is "The Technical Micropolitics of the Online Music Industry, 1997-2007", abstract here). For those of you who've followed my blog, you'll know something of what to expect, except that I'll be strictly framing up ...
Posted in art, blogs, critical constructivism, culture & society, indie, internet, labels, mobile, music, online communities, open source, political economy, technology, theory, wikia, work | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 27th, 2007
I delivered a lecture today for my 200 level Communication class on "Copyright, Commerce, and the Creative Commons". It might need work around its rougher edges still, but I'm kinda modestly proud to have gotten it into the shape it's in now. The emphasis is on (1) the historicization of ...
Posted in art, culture & society, file sharing, internet, law, music, open source, political economy, technology, theory, video, wikia, work | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Those who know me well know that with music, I'm a fussy eater. I can be extremely caustic (I recall trashing both Pat Metheny and Bob Dylan within the space of a single week some time ago on LJ, relishing every moment of silver-tongued venom I spat at their hapless ...
Posted in art, culture & society, fandom, music, taste | 5 Comments »
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
A nifty little mashup, courtesy of Erik Kastner. Example:
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Posted in art, blogs, culture & society, flickr, internet, open source, technology, wikia | 1 Comment »
