Thoughts on a Master’s Dissertation
A few months ago, I undertook a study of contemporary social media through a sociological study of the iPhone instagram app. The research project was multidimensional: I used the app for four-weeks,...
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It’s time for the tech world to get serious about users. Users, of course, have always been a part of the tech world, and there’s no denying that their tastes, opinions, and preferences have been...
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The Half Lives of Social Content
Nick Law recently told me that while the web was about space, social media is about time. He was citing a piece in Wired called “The End of the Web” in which Dan Gelernter argued that streams of...
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Art of an Anxious Society – Rhizome’s 7 on 7
Get 7 artists, pair them with 7 technologists, then wait and listen. This is the couplet-styled social formula driving Rhizome.org’s 7 on 7 conference, now in its 3rd year. Headlined by Harper Reed,...
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Hoisting the WeatherFlag
Data flies loosely in the breeze over the backyard. Uncoiling slowly, old glory beams flashes of illuminated light- hot white dots bursting from a line of stars against the navy. Call it a...
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