Archive for the ‘theory’ 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 art, comprehensive exams, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture industries, PhD studies, political economy, SCOT, sociology of art, STS, technology, theory | No Comments »
Friday, June 5th, 2009
I'm attending (and presenting at) Open Web Vancouver next week, celebrating (and problematizing) with many others the many affordances and limitations of open source and open formats in our digitally mediated world. My talk will likely be rather policy-wonkish, as a current concern of mine (and a crucial chapter in ...
Posted in conferences, drupal, events, internet, mobile, open source, policy, political economy, theory, wikia | 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 art, culture & society, internet, mobile, SNS, social networks, theory | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I'm presenting a keynote this Sunday for an event called Open Mobile, presented in part by Mobile Muse as part of New Forms Festival 2008. I'm co-presenting with Roland Tanglao and Jesse Scott (artist info here), who will be my visual accompanists. But hopefully their visuals will override and scramble ...
Posted in conferences, culture & society, events, Fearless City, mobile, Mobile Muse, open source, political economy, technology, theory, Whistler, wi-fi | 4 Comments »
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, culture & society, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, mobile, Mobile Muse, SCOT, technology, theory, wi-fi, work | 10 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 appropriation, art, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, file sharing, internet, law, open source, P2P, 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, appropriation, art, blogs, comprehensive exams, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, fandom, internet, online communities, open source, PhD studies, political economy, SCOT, social bookmarking, social networks, social web, sociology of art, STS, taste, technology, theory, wikia | 2 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in AOIR 8, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, fandom, file sharing, indie, internet, music, online communities, open source, P2P, political economy, SNS, 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, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, file sharing, internet, music, online communities, P2P, political economy, social networks, taste, technology, theory | 1 Comment »
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