Tag: freerange
What Does Ethical Social Networking Software Look Like? — The Message — Medium
This is a site that has just garnered a lot of attention. It is presenting itself as an alternative to FaceBook and Twitter (app.net is also promoting itself as a Twitter alternative). The main differ... 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
Networked Practices
This brief article is about Vine (an app we used to get media for interactive projects in a second year subject), what’s interesting for me is not the shortness (in an industrial age dominated ... Read More
Another Lesson from The World
Free OS, another inversion of how we think media industries work. The Age’s (though it comes from Mashable) article does an good job of how disruptive and upside down this is. Then there is Tile... Read More
Self Assembling Robots
These are small robots that have the capacity to self assemble into ‘architectural’ forms. This is a very big change, and while we can get all whatever about tech determinism the key thing... Read More
Black Boxes, Algorithmic Decisions
Nice article in The Atlantic on recommendation algorithms and those that rely less on social endorsement than automatic other things. The important thing is the bias that systems always exhibit, and t... Read More
Oyster, Unlimited Books on your Phone
Relevant to recent discussions here, oyster is a service that let's you subscribe for $10 a month and it works like a book library. ... It is like last.fm or spotify for books, haven't looked at it... Read More