Actor Network Theory (ANT) has been mentioned in passing a few times this semester so let’s get our hands dirty here. This is Bruno Latour outlining via a very influential new media/internet stu...Read More
Last week Brian left us with the intriguing "the 80/20 stuff isn't what I think really matters in the chapter", so we will begin this week with this prompt about what does then matter from the chapter...Read More
Kaifeng on Bolter and Grusin (“remediation”) on technology. This is the same Jay David Bolter we met early in the semester. Presumably this a reading for another course? Good to see the cr...Read More
Kate picks up that hypertext structures are about the gaps between things. Networks are defined by gaps, so the recent readings have been all about why these gaps seem to get joined. And the next step...Read More
Denham’s take away is: I think this is the key point that I took out of this reading (most of it I didn’t fully understand), the idea that although the internet is commonly viewed as this ...Read More
Danielle picks up the material parts of the internet and digital technology that I raised but thinks some of it must be virtual. We use ‘virtual’ to mean that we digitise stuff and once th...Read More
Samuel, via Potts and Murphie, wonders where culture ends and technology begins. I think today, certainly in the first world, to think one is separate from the other has all the hallmarks of a myth of...Read More
It's a good way to approach it, and it also illustrates a range of political and cultural changes (the factories are now 'somewhere else', but technology is less of an outside evil than something well...Read More
Abby thinks games maybe are like stories and argues that "the user is always the protagonist". I'd agree with that 100% and then ask how many stories have you read/watched where you can even make t...Read More