Archive for the ‘critical constructivism’ 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 »
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
I've been on the sidelines of Critical Mass for far too long. Time for that to end.
For the umpteen-millionth time, I was (either intentionally or not) bullied today by two cars on Commercial Drive. Riding in the right hand lane, ever watchful behind and in front of me, carefully judging ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
I might start trying to do a "weekly zeitgeist" digest every Friday (or at worst, just paste together some cool links I've found). I'd like to include the sorts of links that contain answers (even partial, or even just plain wrong) to all of our questions, before many of us ...
Posted in GPS, critical constructivism, culture & society, mobile, social web, technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
On Nokia's shrinking North American market share: "(Samsung & others) were quick to meet carriers’ customization demands, an area in which Nokia proved reluctant." (http://bit.ly/zuSN).
But this is precisely why Nokia ought to be lauded - for its efforts in putting out handsets that straddle grids/networks (3g/wi-fi) and balancing different interaction ...
Posted in creative industries, critical constructivism, indie, mobile, open source, political economy, technology | 3 Comments »
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
This is actually a pretty compelling experience, I'm finding - I wonder what their curatorial model is - can't find confirmation of how they filter the twits. Go there live now. Full twemewar happening here.
Posted in critical constructivism, culture & society, social web, technology, wikia | No Comments »
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
If you haven't seen this already, then go check it out. Terse political opinions fly by with impunity. What to do, what to do...and how does media theory speak to this? I can anticipate hundreds of approaches, from critical political economy to social constructivism to what-have-you ... but then again, ...
Posted in Mobile Muse, SCOT, STS, content aggregation, critical constructivism, culture & society, drupal, mobile, open source, political economy, technology, work | No Comments »
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
"Expensive phones are like an enormous test phase, but budget phones are the true launch pad for a mobile technology."
Well said. Read the rest at All About Symbian. It's exciting to see the trickle of smart phone functionality into lower end handsets. Perhaps Nokia's actually been listening to its participatory ...
Posted in appropriation, critical constructivism, design, marketing, mobile, political economy | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 28th, 2008
I had the opportunity last week to present my ongoing research into user-centered technology design (which is what is evolving out of my ethnographic research in the lives of mobile handset users) as part of a panel all about Mobile Muse (where I'm the Program Manager, for those who aren't ...
Posted in Actor network theory, Mobile Muse, PhD studies, SCOT, STS, conferences, critical constructivism, ethnography, mobile, work | No Comments »
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Today is Northern Voice (I'm presenting tomorrow, but today is the unconference, most of which I hope to catch!), but right now I'm riveted to my laptop (poring over comments about torrent tracking) before I head out to UBC. Really good back n forth over at Nicholas Weaver's Random Thoughts ...
Posted in P2P, SCOT, appropriation, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, file sharing, internet, law, open source, policy, technology, torrents | 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 »
