Lauren on the ‘specular economy’ which is not only about how we think we want to present ourselves but also how extensive networks now are. If as we saw with Kevin Bacon it is easy to get ...Read More
My riff in response to Brian’s comment that the 80/20 stuff isn’t what really matters in the reading. the internet is scale free – you can add and add to it and it doesn’t fill...Read More
Opinions, argument, the university and the coffee house. Read some interesting things in the blogs about the blogs and the encouragement of opinion and reflection. These are good conversations to have...Read More
Have a look. This is what happens when we make networks of bits and loose connections. Services are porous to each other, so someone could make a service that pulls this data from over there, and does...Read More
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