March 28, 2005
Review of Digital Sublime
Review of Mosco's book by Yours Truly in New Media & Society.
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January 26, 2005
The End of Identity/Gender/Race...?
It was suggested in class on Monday that one missing myth in Mosco's book was The End of Identity, the End of Gender ... etc. Consider MCI's almost classic Anthem Ad ... early hypes and hyerboles about the internet and community formation to current leapfrogging myths in ICT4D discourses...
Could we add a collaborative chapter?
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January 25, 2005
Bill Gates and 'ecology'?
Bill Gates. again. no big surprise, but what's up with the "Windows ecology"? interesting in light of R. Babe's work.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4195177.stm
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January 23, 2005
The End of Politics? Howard Dean and the NetSensation...
Image from Doonesbury on Dean
See Joe Trippi, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything, 2004.
Gary Wolf. How the Internet Invented Howard Dean (January 2004)
Kevin Anderson, BBC News, Internet Insurgent Howard Dean Kanuary 14, 2004
New York Times Magazine, December 7, 2003, The Dean Connection by Samantha M. Shapiro.
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PFF, Gilder. Kurzweil...mythmakers ...
Progress and Freedom Foundation
Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age, Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth, Alvin Toffler, 1994
George Gilder's Technology Report
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Image from Mission Yuppie Eradication Project Paulina Borsook. How the Internet Ruined San Francisco, Salon Magazine, October 27, 1999. Boom: The Sound of Eviction, directed by Francine Cavanaugh, A. Mark Liiv, and Adams Wood. Tim Redmond, The Dot-Com Road to Ruin San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 18, 2000. Tom Wetzel, Bryant Square Muscle Cars and Tenant Displacement, 2000. Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg. Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism (Verso, 2001). --'The New Economy'-- Interview with Chris Hedegus and Jeane Noujaim of Startup.com Doug Henwood’s Left Business Observer and his After the New Economy Paulina Borsook. Cyberselfish Cisco in Alternet.org
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Ellen Rose argues that this rhetorical strategy of naturalizing children as innate computer users and web surfers, propelled by both industry and government promotion, calls into question new narratives of childhood that need to be critically assessed: Christopher Martin and Bettina Fabos. Wiring the Kids: The TV Ad Blitz to Get the Internet into Home and School, in Images, Issue 7.
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--metaphors used; electronic frontier, information (super)highway, cyberspace Lisa Nakamura, Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet and Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet, Routledge, 2002. Some reviews are at David Silver’s Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies.
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Case Study: DotComming of San Francisco
Thomas Frank The Rise of Market Populism: America’s New Secular Religion, in The Nation (October 12, 2000). The Young Will Lead Us....
Would it be more accurate to view contemporary conceptions of computer-friendly youngsters as a throwback to the days when factory urchins were required to relinquish individuality and engage passively with technology, and to the days when harsh discipline was the primary means of achieving what inducing total absorption in the simulated, sensory-stimulated world of video games accomplishes today: the formation of ‘docile bodies’? (2003, 157-158).
Ellen Rose. User Error: Resisting Computer Culture. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2003.Early Myths and Metaphors of Cyberspace
--early ad campaigns: Cisco, Nortel, MCI, IBM - Solutions for a Small Planet...
--MCI Anthem ad: 'There is no age ... no race ... no genders... no infirmities. Utopia? No, the Internet...where minds, doors, and lives open up. Is this a great time or what?