Archive for the ‘taste’ 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 ...
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 »
Friday, October 26th, 2007
In other news, Prince totally sucks now.
Posted in file sharing, law, music, taste, video, youtube | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in AOIR 8, P2P, SNS, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, fandom, file sharing, indie, internet, music, online communities, open source, political economy, social networks, taste, technology, theory | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in 4s, P2P, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, file sharing, internet, music, online communities, political economy, social networks, taste, technology, theory | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
25 minutes early, my Radiohead download activation code is emailed to me. Ten years ago, I bought my first Radiohead CD (OK Computer).
OK Computer comprised a significant portion of the soundtrack for a prolonged and significant breakup I was going through at the time, one ending a 7 year relationship ...
Posted in conferences, fandom, internet, music, taste, technology | 4 Comments »
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Here's another update on AOIR 8, happening Oct 17-20 in Vancouver. The Program (cover featured at right) is complete and off to the printers, room assignments have been made, and things are generally getting all keyed up around here.
There's quite a range of papers and panels happening - too much ...
Posted in AOIR 8, conferences, events, film, taste | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in SNS, babies, blogs, critical constructivism, culture & society, ethnography, events, mobile, music, online communities, personal life, social bookmarking, social networks, taste, teaching, technology, theory, wikia | No Comments »
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Clear Channel didn't get away with it, and now Last.fm is taking heat for not paying out royalties to independent artists. Last.fm, recently purchased by CBS, is now heating up indie music business blogs with this policy, even though it's been in place since the company started.
Why so, asks the ...
Posted in blogs, indie, internet, labels, marketing, music, online communities, social bookmarking, social networks, statistics, taste, technology | 2 Comments »
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, June 10th, 2007
In today's NY Times there's a story about Andrew Kuo, super-fan extraordinaire. He's created some mind-boggling charts (pictured right, click the image for enlargement) of indie music appreciation indices (centering around a recent Bright Eyes concert-stalking binge), all of which stem from a very eccentric self-absorption with his own taste. ...
Posted in culture & society, fandom, music, slash, statistics, taste, technology, theory | No Comments »
