Archive for the ‘SCOT’ 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 ...
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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, ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
I exercise 5 days a week, and much of this is running. While I can be found in local gyms on occasion, I try to do as much of this running as possible for free. For in using a treadmill, with its diligent, brainless constancy, I subjugate my running activity ...
Posted in Actor network theory, Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, SCOT, culture & society, mobile, technology, theory, wi-fi, work | 10 Comments »
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 ...
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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, 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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