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Author Archives: Rob Shields

Political Affect

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Protevi attempts to ground affect

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Mapping Flickr photos and Twitter tweets

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Eric Fischer of Oakland California has produced a stunning set of maps of flickr photos and Twitter tweets from geolocation tags in the posts.  These respatialize the world as lit up by these particular forms of new media/Web 2.0 use.  A higher resolution image of the world map is also online.   I especially like [...]

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McLuhan 100 Anniversary

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Happy Birthday Marshall!
Marshall McLuhan was born and spent his childhood in Edmonton in 1911, so we’re celebrating at the University over the next few months with the Media Ecology Association and a few projects such as Wave.
-Rob

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Rewriting Lyotard

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Conference, University of Alberta
February 11-13, 2011
Rewriting Lyotard aims to bring together students and faculty from the University of Alberta and universities across the US and UK, whose research considers the work of French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. Over the course of two and half days of papers and discussion, presenters and audience members will have the [...]

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What we’re reading: TAKE Space (Issue 4.2)

Thursday, December 23, 2010

A Kahnawake ironworker atop a column in New York City in the 1960s
[photo credit: KANIEN’KEHAKA ONKWAWENNA RAOTITIOHKWA CULTURAL CENTER]
TAKE’s Space issue (May 2010) considers the spatialities of digital and lived environments. Videoconferencing collapses geography and shifts social spaces from offices to screens, making one more aware than ever before of the different layers [...]

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