Category: doing
For praxis in the subject, things to do, things that need to be done
Reading 11
Another change of tack, partly looking back intensively where we have been but also looking forward to the sorts of methods, questions, and problems that the way we have tried to approach networks, me... Read More
Symposium Week 10
Barabási: Nature normally hates power laws. In ordinary systems all quantities follow bell curves, and correlations decay rapidly, obeying exponential laws. But all that changes if the system is forc... Read More
Reading 10
The big Lev Manovich: Manovich, Lev. “Database as Symbolic Form”. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Vesna, Victoria, ed. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2007... Read More
Change to Submission
Please note a minor change to assessment of your creative critical essay. it is outlined on the assessment page for the essay.... Read More
Symposium Week 9
No questions from classes this week. All classes have had a go, so for this week we are trying something different: each staff member is nominating a passage or idea from each of the readings to share... Read More
Symposium Questions for Week 8
Murphie and Potts identify some technologies as ‘neutral’ (as in reference to the gun violence debate). How does this apply to networked media and technologies? Can technologies be neutral... Read More
Reading 09
A continuing foray into the shapes of networks, particularly the sorts of shapes relevant to the internet. This is about power law distributions and small world networks. Which is a) why the internet ... Read More
Reading 08
Now we move to thinking about what sort of network the Web and Internet might be. Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. London: Vintage, 2003. Print. (Extract – PDF) Bara... Read More