Archive for the ‘critical constructivism’ Category
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 ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
What is the relation between the technology of single sign-on and community mobilization?
There are two approaches to - or models for - the twin issues of convenience and security in our current era of mass content browsing: (1) single sign-on (OpenID, MicroID) and (2) content aggregation (Jaiku, Pageflakes, Readr). Both ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
This update is running quite late, but is still valuable, I think, in attempting to sustain the dialogue which was unfortunately given too short an interval at our panel on Music and Sound at the AOIR conference last week. As well, I particularly need to move among the "diaspora" of ...
Posted in AOIR 8, blogs, conferences, critical constructivism, ethnography, fandom, indie, internet, music, podcast, political economy, social networks, technology, theory | 2 Comments »
Friday, October 19th, 2007
I presented at AOIR today as part of a panel on Music and Sound. Here's the PDF of my talk, complete with notes.
I did this with an extreme headache, and a growing sense that I need to, as my friend and colleague Flo articulated it the other day, "coccoon" myself ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I'm back from Montréal, having had a good but curt time in la belle province. 4S (image of the plenary at R, more available here) was, to be honest, hit and miss; some panels were dull as television, and some others were painful to watch due to speaker-unpreparedness. Sometimes I ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
I'm blogging this from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Montréal. We (Roy Bendor, Jack Post, Peter-Paul Verbeek and I) just completed our panel on Bruno Latour ("Translating Latour") and I'm now in a very interesting panel about "Problematizing Technological Appropriation". My first impression is that ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Cool stuff. Looks like our issues with Meraki changing their price points and feature sets may be over thanks to the efforts of these hackers:
www.merhaki.com
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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 ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
I'm involved in the Vancouver Free the Net.ca initiative (though there may be disagreement over whether "initiative" is the appropriate word to describe it). VanFreetheNet is setting up ad hoc mesh networks in various parts of the city, partly in response to inertia and other issues related to the City ...
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Nice to be back in the swim of things. I just put a final report out the door on a research project that I'd been working on for 14 months. It was a difficult project - one that didn't always go as planned, that got intermittently sidelined by other events ...
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