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The Mashup Reigns on Facebook

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Mashup Image from Facebook (*Note the black bars through the eyes were my own addition)
“Mashups combine views, data, and logic from existing Web sites or applications to create novel applications that focus on situational and ephemeral problems.”
This statement from Maximilien, Ranabahu & Gomadam (2008: 32) in IEEE Internet Computing refers to an open and programmable [...]

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Book Review: Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity

Thursday, July 15, 2010

André Jansson and Amanda Lagerkvist (eds.) 2009. Strange Spaces: Explorations into Mediated Obscurity. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7546-7461-0.
Reviewed by Peter Lugosi, School of Services Management, Bournemouth University (UK)
Jansson and Lagerkvist’s edited collection explores the processes through which spaces become uncertain, opaque…strange.  At times these uncertainties emerge as negativities – fear, loss, [...]

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Time-Space of the Twitterverse

Monday, May 24, 2010

iA have created a visualization of the 140 most followed ‘twitter-ers’ (size of dot=followers) and their influence (algorithmic? size of grey bubble=impact) by social spheres (in pie-slices around the circle) and over time (radially from the centre).

“Here it is, our next Web Trend Map. No Metro lines, no URLS. This time, it’s the 140 most [...]

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Intermedia Ethnography

Monday, November 16, 2009

Craig Campbell at the f01k10r3 & public culture program is about to open an Intermedia Ethnographies Laboratory (building will be finished this time next year) at the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies (University of Texas, Austin). His show,  Ethnographic Terminalia is showing in Pittsburgh. Campbell’s work takes visual anthropology out of the museum and out of [...]

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Digital cities

Thursday, October 8, 2009

[Bogotá City Blues by Coso Blues]
Wired UK reports on the digital city. Here are some utopian, critical and imaginary highlights:
Digital Cities: ‘Sense-able’ urban design
By Carlo Ratti
“By receiving real-time information, appropriately visualised and disseminated, citizens themselves can become distributed intelligent actuators, who pursue their individual interests in co-operation and competition with others, and thus become prime [...]

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