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Category Archives: Media & communications
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 [...]
CFP: Gender Cultures and Reality Television
Monday, June 20, 2011
Research Symposium: Gender Cultures and Reality TV
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
December 2-3, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
The aim of this symposium is to take advantage of our Asia-Pacific location by raising questions about gender and reality TV from a comparative, cross-cultural perspective. We are particularly interested in critical investigations of the intersections between gender, culture and [...]
Book Review: Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Hoon Song. Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America. 2010. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 262 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4242-3
Reviewed by Marcel LaFlamme, Department of Anthropology, Rice University (US)
On the first Monday of September, the townspeople of Hegins, Pennsylvania would assemble in the park to kill pigeons. Birds rounded up in the railyards [...]
Survivall in exhibition: Vivo Arte Mov at MAM, Salvador da Bahia
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Survivall at MAM Salvador by A. Lemos, M. Fiorelli and R. Shields (Photo copyright A. Lemos and M. Fiorelli)
An update to our previous post on “locative art” using Google Maps and our collective article in Wi – Journal of Mobile Media (Hexagram Institute) – where Andre Lemos recently discussed locative media in Brazil. Survivall is [...]