our digital culture of narcissism
by nathan jurgenson For many (especially youths and young adults), attempting to quit or never start Facebook is a difficult challenge. We are compelled to document ourselves and our lives online...
View ArticleVirtual Conference Report: Day Three (21 Oct, 2009)
Today’s papers have focused once more on the key motifs of the conference, that of breaking down borders and indisciplinarity. Nancy Naples (University of Connecticut) uses her paper: ‘Borderlands...
View ArticleVirtual Conference Report: Day Six (26 Oct, 2009)
Welcome to the second week of the Wiley-Blackwell Virtual Conference. The first day back has started with a keynote speech from Peter Ludlow (Northwestern University) entitled ‘Virtual Communities,...
View Articleweb 1.5: the web is not getting flatter
As media became truly massive in the middle of the 20th century, many theorists discussed the degree to which individuals are powerless -e.g., McLuhan’s famous “the medium is the message.” In the last...
View ArticleFacebook Places and the Augmentation of Reality
You probably have heard about Facebook Places, a feature that brings the site up to speed with other location-sharing services like Foursquare and Gowalla that allow users to document where they are,...
View ArticleWhat is a HIPSTER?
from https://seanwes.com/2012/hipster-designerd/ This week in a local Massachusetts newspaper a columnist made a list of demands to the influx of hipsters into his neighborhood. In the article the...
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