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
Work in the Media | Deuze | Media Industries
Mark Deuze is a key academic in the area of media and labour. I haven’t read this yet but suspect it is a good pointer of the sort of precarious labour that creative professionals very much find... 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
When taking selfies in Trinidad, it’s what’s on the outside that matters | Jolynna Sinanan | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Narcissism, selfies, and contemporary network media….When taking selfies in Trinidad, it's what's on the outside that matters | Jolynna Sinanan | Comment is free | theguardian.com.... Read More
Trust Networks
Quick dirty one. In reply to a recent email about ‘trust networks’: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software#Debates_or_design_choices where they discuss trust in a specific way in tha... Read More
Reading 07
Apologies, I had thought these readings were online before I went to London for a conference. (Ah, they were but there was a tag problem so looks like they didn’t appear under the reading headin... Read More